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Dear Sleep…

18/03/201512/05/2017

Dear Sleep Remember those good old days when we used to spend hours together, dreaming beautiful dreams, night after night? After a busy day, you were always there waiting with your big warm open arms ready to enfold me. I felt so snuggly and safe in your embrace and those hours we spent together were… Read More

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The Broken Boys

04/12/201410/12/2014

This week’s ‘The Prompt’ is ‘I read the news today…’ which reminded me of an assignment I had when I was doing a creative writing course to write a piece based on a news item I had come across that week without using dialogue. Here’s the piece I wrote:   The Broken Boys Well, here… Read More

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Childhood through the ages

15/08/201418/04/2019
Me holding a Speak and Spell toy with my twin sister and nephew when we were small children

Sometimes when I watch Jessica and Sophie playing, I realise just how much things have changed since I was a little girl.  Jessica is already able to use a iPod, turn the TV on and off and change channels and operate the DVD player.  When I was her age, I could probably operate the TV… Read More

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It was inevitable

09/05/201416/07/2017
Sophie asleep in her cot

It was inevitable that the week leading up to my birthday would see hubby even more sleep-deprived than me due to working into the early hours on events followed by early morning starts. Naturally my two small children didn’t quite realise that the best birthday present to give mummy would be a good chunk of… Read More

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I'm Louise, mummy of three - Jessica, forever six, who was born with half a heart and lives on in mine; and heart-healthy Sophie (born 2013) and Thomas (born 2018). I blog about living with grief after child loss, crafts, days out and the little moments of family life.

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