Happy new year everyone! We’ve been discovering new places, trying new recipes, learning new skills and making some new things part of our routine this week.  Sophie started at a new dance school this week and has enjoyed her first few dance classes there. It means her dance lessons are a little more spread out… Read More
It has been lovely to have quality time together as a family over the festive period and time catching up with a few friends and family either side of Christmas. We spent our Christmas down in Cornwall, staying at Coombe Mill. It was good to be able to get away and be in a little… Read More
I feel like I often start my Me and Mine posts by saying that this month has been a difficult one. I guess that’s the reality of life as a bereaved family though – the rollercoaster ride of living with grief and the ache of Jessica’s absence from key moments in our family life. December… Read More
To all my readers, Thank you for following my blog over the last year. I hope that your Christmas will be as nice a one as it can be. Lots of love to those of you I know who will find Christmas this year to be a difficult one – wishing you a peaceful festive… Read More
I’m sure I’m not alone in the feeling of déjà vu as we get closer to Christmas with the current sharp rise in Covid cases. We’ve been cancelling activities this week in the hope that we might be able to have Christmas as planned but I can’t help feeling that we’ll be forced to change… Read More
One of our Christmas traditions is to create a festive photo of the children together. I enjoyed coming with different ideas for festive scenes, particularly once I started getting to grips with Photoshop and playing around with backgrounds. I’m thankful that Photoshop gives me a way of creating photos of the three of my children… Read More
I’m feeling quite fragile this week, both physically and emotionally. I had my Covid booster jab on Tuesday and I’ve woken with vertigo each morning since. Not sure if it’s due to the vaccine or purely coincidental but it isn’t much fun. Thankfully it was fairly short-lived on Wednesday and Thursday but today has been… Read More