June felt non-stop with busy-ness. Ella finally finished her A Level exams, only for Lola to immediately launch into sitting her Year 10 GCSE Mocks. The month-long glorious heatwave (I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I am solar-powered and the sunshine & warmth nourishes me more than I can ever possibly explain)…
May is one of my favourite months of the year. Firstly, it’s peony season. Enough said. Plus, everything is gloriously green and the promise of summer is hovering on the horizon… It’s also my birthday month and so, as I embark on a new trip around the sun, I thought I’d refresh this blog series…
I have very little to say this month beyond being very grateful that April blessed us with absolutely glorious weather and an abundance of beautiful Spring blooms, which I made the most of whenever I could. A reminder that the seasons continue onwards no matter what’s going on in our own personal worlds. Here are…
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…