March has been a stressful and difficult month for a multitude of reasons. And yet, in the midst of all the messy feelings and circumstances, there have been both big and little things to love, and they have been an important part of me being able to manage. The anchor I find in the unwavering…
February is, generally, my least favourite chapter of the year. It might be the shortest month, but it’s full of difficult anniversaries. This year marked a decade without my Dad, and it’s been so grey all month that I often felt like I was drowning. And then a day would come along where the sky…
Ordinarily, January is supposed to be a relatively quiet time of the year. There’s the lull after all of the festive season activities and get-togethers are over, and it’s traditionally a time to reflect on the year that’s just gone as well as planning & setting intentions for the year ahead. Our house did not…
For eight years now I’ve been tracking my year in numbers – measuring the twelve months that have just passed according to all the things that are *actually* important to me (as opposed to all the things we’re told by the media and society to measure ourselves by). These metrics are the elements that I…
December felt like it disappeared in a flash – I blinked and missed it. It’s been a month full of exams and illness, plus the fridge-freezer decided to break down in quite dramatic fashion five days before Christmas as well, with no engineer available to come and fix it until the evening before Christmas Eve…
November was a challenging month, for many reasons. Even so, there were still plenty of little things to love sprinkled in amongst the hard parts. Here are all the little things I’ve been loving lately throughout November… READ We Are All Made Of Stars: by Rowan Coleman. I needed some fiction I could lose…
October has been a very full-on month. Full of good things and everyday ordinary moments. Full of work and not enough sleep. Full of train journeys and long-ish drives and overcoming fears & challenges and lots of ‘firsts’. Full of life-stuff and big changes and important decisions. Full of music and magic and making memories…
September has been a full-on and curiously contrasting month of travelling (in the space of just over a week I flew to Barcelona for a few days break and went to London on two separate occasions for different work events), and time at home getting everyone settled back into school & college. It’s always been…
August has been a bit of a challenging month for a variety of reasons. Looking for glimmers each day (despite working pretty much non-stop) has been important, and thankfully there have been quite a few. Here are all of the little things I’ve been loving lately throughout August… READ The Pilgrimage: by Paulo Coelho. Cited…
July has felt weirdly long, which is unusual because it normally flies by. Two out of three girls had finished school and college for the summer at the end of June (post-exams), so they were just at home having a well-deserved rest whilst I was still ferrying poor Lola to and from school for another…