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Friday Focus 14/08/20 – Frazzled

I’m feeling quite frazzled this week. It’s been one of those weeks where everything just feels too much. The heat; trying to juggle work, looking after the children, doing housework,…

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Friday Focus 07/08/2020 – Enjoying the sunshine in the garden

We’ve been making the most of the sunshine and spending most of our days out in the garden this week. My home office at the moment is sitting at our…

Transition - this week's word of the week

Friday Focus 31/07/20 – Transitions

It’s been a week of transition in various ways, starting with the caterpillars we’ve been watching grow. Last weekend, we made the transition from the pot into the butterfly net…

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Friday Focus 24/07/20 – Preparing

This week has been a busy one. Thomas turns two on Sunday and I’ve been preparing for his birthday – planning cakes, having presents delivered, having Nanny come up to…

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Friday Focus 17/07/20 – Firsts

We enjoyed a couple of ‘firsts’ this week with venturing out and about. Last weekend, we enjoyed a family day out at Chiltern Open Air Museum – our first family…

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Friday Focus 10/07/20 – Plodding along

It’s been one of those weeks when everything has just felt a bit tough and we’ve just been plodding through. I’m struggling with trying to get a decent amount of…

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Friday Focus 26/06/20 – Reactions

The toddler tantrums have begun! Thomas has decided that he doesn’t like closed stair gates and the word ‘no’; the reaction to these has been lots of tears and getting…

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Friday Focus 19/06/20 – A beautiful social bubble

It has been wonderful this week to be able to spend time with my mum; to have her come and stay over again and to be able to give her…

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Friday Focus 12/06/20 – Beautiful memories of our beautiful girl

Sophie overtaking Jessica last week has made for quite an emotional week this week which wasn’t unexpected. We did have a lovely moment this week of taking time to focus…

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Friday Focus 05/06/2020 – Overtaking Jessica

We’ve had a tough milestone this week. Yesterday Sophie was the exact age that Jessica was when she died and today she has overtaken her. It is very weird that…