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Friday Focus 18/04/2025 – Dance

This week has been a busy one, mostly focusing on dance as Sophie has been competing in two different dance festivals as well as performing in Made in Dagenham. It…

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Friday Focus 11/04/2025 – Theatricals

It’s been a week of focusing on theatricals with various rehearsals and preparations for upcoming performances.     It’s show week for Sophie as she’s performing in Made in Dagenham…

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Friday Focus 04/04/2025 – Lighter

We’ve been making the most of the lovely sunshine and the lighter evenings this week and have enjoyed a couple of late afternoon trips to the park. The nice weather…

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Friday Focus 28/03/2025 – Time

It’s been nice to have some little pockets of time to do various things this week. Sophie’s ballet class was cancelled last Friday which meant that we had time to…

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Friday Focus 21/03/2025 – Performing

We’ve had a busy week of performing with Sophie competing in a dance festival last weekend and then taking part in Energize, a music, dance and drama festival which various…

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Friday Focus 14/03/2025 – Chaotic

Things have been somewhat chaotic this week in the LHBL house as we’ve been having some work done on our heating system having discovered a small gas leak last week…

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Friday Focus 07/03/2025 – Working through

This week has been all about working through things. We’ve had another significant milestone on our grief journey with Thomas overtaking Jessica in age, and working through all the emotions…

Jessica, Sophie and Thomas at the same age as each other

Overtaking and overturning – another milestone on our child loss journey

Today Thomas has reached the age that Jessica was when she died. From tomorrow, my first-born child will become the youngest. The natural order of things will be turned on…

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Friday Focus 28/02/2025 – Emotional

This week has been an emotional one. There’s been moments of joy and things that have made me smile, alongside intense grief-bursts and feeling stressed and angry, moments of feeling…

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Friday Focus 21/02/2025 – Balance

We’ve been on half-term break this week and it’s been a nice balance of planned days out, chilled out time at home, visiting family and friends and low-key activities like…