2020. The end of a decade and the start of a brand new one. It feels…different somehow. I remember being sixteen years old at the turn of the millennium and all the hype and excitement and trepidation around that – the start of a new year, a new decade, a new century AND a new…
Four years ago, on the 1st January 2016, I spontaneously decided to start a Happy Jar. The idea was loosely based on the concept of a ‘gratitude jar’ that I’d seen in a meme online a few weeks beforehand. It seemed like a fun activity for the girls and I to do together and I…
In 2017 I took a leaf out of Suzanne from Inside Outside and Beyond’s blog pages and started tracking my year in numbers, measuring the year according to all the things that are important to me and which I value the most: family time; love and connection; travel; creativity; helping others and personal challenges/growth. I…
At the start of December, amidst the chaos of moving house, we celebrated Ella’s birthday and somehow my firstborn is now a teenager. Thirteen! And only a few inches off being the same height as me! I can’t believe it. It honestly doesn’t feel like thirteen years ago that she entered the world, launched me…
What a month! We celebrated Ella turning thirteen at the beginning of December, finally moved house (woohoo!) and then both Mimi and Ella succumbed to the epidemic of flu going around their school. It completely wiped them out one week after the other in the lead up to the end of term and they each…
I’m not a fan of November. It’s one of my least favourite months of the year (along with January and February). Dark mornings and evenings combined with cold and drizzly weather are not fun, no matter how much I try and shift my mindset to being happy to hibernate indoors in front of the TV…
I’m fairly open about what’s going on in our little world most of the time. But sometimes things happen behind the scenes that I choose to keep private for a while before I feel ready to share them. Things that are deeply personal, things that tap into old fears and stories, things that need a…
October has been a funny old month. We’ve mostly been in limbo, just waiting. Waiting for a completion date for our new house; waiting for answers to questions; waiting for multiple different solicitors to do what they need to do with regards to various different situations; waiting for the results of some health tests for…
September seems to have been and gone in the blink of an eye. The girls are all back at school and we’ve begrudgingly settled into our term-time routine of homework and after school clubs and counting down the days until the weekend. Half of me definitely wasn’t ready for summer to be over and half…
During the summer holidays I got the opportunity to tick one more item off of my ‘40 Things Before I’m 40‘ list… #35: take the girls to a festival. It’s been almost twelve months since I last managed to complete any of the tasks on my list, and I’ve only got a few years left…