A couple of weeks ago Mimi, our middle daughter, turned nine. I think I’m still in a little bit of denial. I can’t believe that nine whole years have passed since I welcomed her into the world, ten days after her due date, her crazy head of pitch black hair and her powerful lungs surprising us all. She still surprises us on…
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…
May has seemed like a really busy month and yet it feels like we haven’t really ‘done’ very much. Looking back through my diary and my camera roll it’s mainly been commitments at the girls’ school, work-related stuff and birthdays that have been keeping us occupied. As a result I realised that we’ve not actually had any adventures out and…
How is it the end of May already?! I swear I was only writing last month’s Little Loves post a week or so ago. Summer feels like it’s decided to arrive, it’s half term next week and we’ve had a busy month. Here are all the little things I’ve been loving lately throughout May… Read…
Regular readers of my blog will know that we visit Bude in North Cornwall for a week-long family holiday every single year without fail. We have family traditions that we to love to maintain and we also make a point of discovering and exploring new places that we’ve not come across before. You can read more about this year’s…
A couple of weeks ago I turned thirty-four. Thirty-four! The words sound alien because in my head I feel about sixteen. And yet here I am, more than double the age I feel, somewhat bemused as to where the time has gone and how I’ve ended up here. All in all it was a pretty…
This is the third and final part of my mini-series of blogs documenting our time in beautiful Bude for a week-long family break during the Easter holidays. You can find part one here and part two here. We’ve been home for over a month now and looking back over all my photos and remembering all the fun…
If you are a parent of a school-age child you’ll probably be aware that it’s currently exam season. SATs, GCSEs, AS and A Levels, Mocks… May and June are not fun months for either parents or children when it comes to school. When Ella and Mimi (currently in Years 5 and 4 of primary school respectively) were in Year…
A few weeks ago on a lovely, sunny Saturday, the girls and I headed up to Trentham Gardens for the afternoon. Trentham is somewhere we go several times a year – it’s one of our favourite places to visit as there are loads of things there for the girls to enjoy whatever the season – the lakeside walk and…
This is part two of my mini-series of blogs about being back in beautiful Bude for a week long family break during the Easter holidays. You can find part one here. As I started putting this post together I’ve realised just how much fun we managed to pack into the time we had. We had a…