One of my favourite things about blogging is reading so many wonderful blog posts – posts that make me think, make me smile, make me laugh and sometimes make me cry. Every Friday, I like to share five of my favourite posts from the previous week – my Friday Fabulous Five. Here are this week’s… Read More
I think the drama and poorliness of the last couple of weeks have caught up with me a bit this week as my general feeling this week has been just: I’ve had a few unsettled nights, lots of thoughts churning through my head and have generally not managed enough sleep this week. We’ve got our… Read More
The phone call came towards the end of November – we had a date for Jessica’s open-heart surgery. We had hoped that we might be able to have Christmas together first but it was not to be – the surgery was set for 14th December. We couldn’t focus on the thought of Christmas – not… Read More
I don’t think Jessica was too impressed by her first experience of Christmas dinner…
For the last few years, I have taken a photo of Jessica (and later Sophie too) to go on the Christmas card. We didn’t do this for Jessica’s first Christmas as she was in hospital having had open-heart surgery and sending cards that year was very low on our priority list. The following year, our… Read More
I was very flattered to be recently nominated for the One Lovely Blog Award by Katy at What Katy Said – thank you lovely lady and as requested I will be sharing seven facts about myself in this post. Katy has also tagged me in the Christmas tag as has Jessica at JessicaEliot.com and so… Read More
On Saturday, Jessica and I went to a charity Christmas fayre organised by my friends Lisa and Ashley in memory of their daughter Amelia, who died earlier this year at the age of 3 years and 4 months a result of an epileptic seizure. Sadly despite having suffered around 40 fits from the age of… Read More