One of Sophie’s birthday presents was a trike from Grandma and Grandad and as the weather was particularly nice on Sophie’s birthday, we headed off to the park in the afternoon so that Sophie could get a good run out on it. Jessica enjoyed being able to take her Little Tikes car for a longer… Read More
It’s Friday again and time for me to share five of my favourite posts that I’ve read this week. This week’s Friday Fabulous Five are: Kohl Mama lists some of the milestones that really matter: http://www.kohlmama.com/milestones-that-matter/ The Reading Residence shares 10 Social Media tips from Bloggers: http://www.thereadingresidence.com/ten-top-social-media-tips-bloggers/ Muddled Manuscript has written a very powerful poem… Read More
This week’s word of the week is: Sophie turned one on Monday and we celebrated her birthday with a party on Saturday with family and friends. Both the girls had a wonderful time. We also had Auntie Maxine come to stay for a few days and had a new baby arrive in the family –… Read More
I thought I’d step out of my comfort zone a little for this week’s prompt – “My favourite season…” and try a different style of poetry from my usual rhyming couplet. This is my first attempt at a Chaucerian roundel on my favourite season of all: My Favourite Season My favourite season is the spring… Read More
We have finally managed to get a little more family time together towards the end of this month after a very busy couple of months with hubby working some very long hours. This month’s photos were taken at our baby girl’s first birthday party which was a lovely afternoon celebrating with family and friends. It… Read More
Looking through my creative writing folder the other day, I came across this parody of the song ‘One Day More’ which I wrote for hubby towards the end of his PhD. It brought back a lot of memories of those days of sitting up half the night trying to get it written up and handed… Read More