I honestly don’t know where this first half of October has gone. Since getting home from Colorado life has felt even more hectic than normal and I’m craving some quiet time to gather my thoughts and actually rest. The busy-ness has brought with it lots of joyful moments and it’s highlighted to me just how important it…
One of my best friends, who I have known since I was seven years old, lives in Southampton – about 160 miles south of where we live. She and her husband have come up to visit us for a weekend a few times in the past and we always have a lot of fun – the girls adore…
Thanks to the nature of his job, the husband is usually at work at some point on a Saturday. Sometimes I use that time to catch up on necessary errands and life admin and housework whilst the girls have some much-needed downtime to spend reading, playing games, doing some colouring and drawing or watching a…
Gosh, what a whirlwind week! I’m so tired that my brain is almost too frazzled to put together any kind of cohesive words about my joyful moments from the last ten days. There have been lots, I know that. It’s been busy and stressful and sad and happy and scary and exhilarating, sometimes all in…
I take hundreds of photos every month, and most of them don’t get shared with anyone, let alone online. And yet the moments in time that those photos capture are just as important a part of our story as the other images that I do choose to share. I created this blog as a way…
I sit writing this in a hotel room in Denver, Colorado. It’s Friday morning here, though if you’re reading this back home in England it’ll already be the afternoon. It still doesn’t quite feel real, even though I spent the whole of yesterday – 19 hours in total – travelling to get here, leaving the house at…
I’m well over half way through this fourth year of Project Happy and it still surprises me that I’ve kept going for so long. It’s second nature to me now and I can’t imagine not having it as a part of my life. This week has felt better – we’re back in our familiar routine and…
It feels strange to be writing about our adventures at Chester Zoo now, considering that we’re well over half way through September already. After all, it was back at the start of August that we visited for the day. I almost decided not to bother and then several things made me change my mind: we had such…
The start of September is always a transition period. The change of season from Summer to Autumn, the shift from having the girls with me 24/7 to them being back at school, and the distinct change in myself as I move between all the different roles I occupy, trying to keep track of everything I…
For the first three weeks of the summer holidays I had no car. Anyone who knows me knows that I love to walk everywhere anyway, so it didn’t bother me too much. However, with three daughters who had a list of adventures they wanted to go on, it did make things more than a little…