I often leave our monthly Me and Mine photo to the last minute but with hubby being away working for the last week of this month, I managed to be a little more organised and remember to have some photos taken before he went away. This month’s photos were taken at church, just after the… Read More
I’m somebody who likes to surprise my close family members on their birthdays, perhaps with an unexpected gift that has the personal touch or a surprise visit – such as the time I walked in an hour into my mum’s surprise 60th birthday at just the point that she was saying what a shame it… Read More
My soppy hubby wanted us to sit as a family on Valentine’s Day and watch our wedding DVD together. It’s something we usually do in July on our wedding anniversary and I love reliving the pure joy of that day but this was the first time in a while that I really paid attention to… Read More
We had our first snow of the winter at the beginning of the month which seemed like the ideal opportunity to take some photos for February’s Siblings photo project. The last month has been the first month since Sophie’s arrival where the girls have spent ‘awake’ time apart from each other, with Jessica being at… Read More
January has seen little shifts in the time we spend together as a family. Jessica started preschool at the beginning of the month and often hubby has been able to go into work slightly later on those two days so that he can stay at home with Sophie while I take Jessica to preschool. It’s… Read More
Whenever I tell people that I have four brothers and four sisters, they nearly always assume that my mother gave birth to nine children. Actually, the reason my family is so big is because it is a blended family. Both my parents were married twice before they met and married each other. My mother had… Read More
Having so much time with hubby around over Christmas and New Year was blissful and then it was all over and back to normal life with a bit of a bump. In the busyness of day-to-day life it can be all too easy to slip back into bad habits again and start taking each other… Read More