On my birthday two years ago I posted a list of 40 things I want to do, achieve and experience before I turn 40 years old in 2023. I’d originally started the list when I turned thirty but I hadn’t launched my blog at that point so it existed solely in the relative privacy of…
This edition of Little Loves feels like quite a strange one to be putting together. April has been both a busy and a quiet month in many different ways and Easter feels like forever ago. I had to check in my diary that it was actually in April, not March. I don’t see therapy clients…
March has felt like the longest month ever. Today marks the start of the Easter holidays but honestly I thought they would never arrive – the days were passing by but the end of term just didn’t seem to be getting any closer, even though it’s only been a short half term. It’s been quite…
I’ve been wrestling with writing this post for six weeks now. Six weeks ago, on 7th February 2018, it was the third anniversary of my Dad’s death. As is natural, I thought about Dad a lot around that date, and felt a whole mixture of feelings that I’m only just beginning to untangle, which is…
Considering that February is the shortest month as well as being my least favourite month of the year, we’ve certainly packed in plenty of lovely things over the last four weeks. I normally find February difficult – partly because of the grey dreariness of the last dregs of winter but mainly because it’s the anniversary…
I always find January to be a bit of a contradictory month. In some ways I feel sad that the joy of the Christmas festivities is over and yet another part of me can’t wait to get the decorations down, get back to normality (for a little while anyway) and embrace the slower pace. Likewise,…
When I was a child, I don’t think I was really aware that Walt Disney World was a real place. Of course I grew up watching all the films (my favourites were Aladdin and The Little Mermaid) and I knew all the words to every song but I didn’t know that there was an actual…
We are halfway through January already and, as ever, I’m not really sure where the weeks have gone. They seem to have passed by in a bit of a fog of flu (the husband, Ella and Lola this time – Mimi had it over Christmas and thoughtfully shared it with them. I’m still germ-free thank…
Back in December I read this post by Suzanne from Inside, Outside and Beyond and I loved the idea – something about it just piqued my curiosity and I started wondering about what my year would look like in numbers. I sat down to write and quickly realised that I was really going to have…
I’ve not been feeling particularly festive this year. I’m not sure why, I’ve just not been able to summon up that special brand of excitement that usually accompanies the month of December. I’ve not felt stressed or overwhelmed either, just… flat. That’s the only way I can think of to describe it. I didn’t want…