Both my girls are quite musical – not too surprisingly really as both hubby and I are musical as are both sets of grandparents and at least four out of the eight great-grandparents were musical too. Jessica frequently walks around the house singing, sometimes it’s endless repeats of the Teletubbies theme, other times it might… Read More
Family It’s been a good year for us as a family. Jessica had her one and only hospital admission for the year back in January – a planned admission for a cardiac catheter which showed that her lung arteries had good pressures but were small and need time to grow before her next open heart… Read More
Christmas is all about spending time together as a family. Time to turn the phones off, forget about social media and work and just enjoy time with each other. Getting down on the floor with the girls and playing with the new toys (sometimes I wonder if Daddy has more fun with them than the… Read More
For me, one of my favourite things about Christmas is spending time with family. With four brothers and four sisters, that’s a lot of family to try and catch up with over the festive period though although I managed to catch up with seven of my siblings – four of them before Christmas and three… Read More
We nearly didn’t manage to get a photo of just the two of us together this month but managed to get a moment at a friend’s housewarming/Christmas party to have a photo taken together while the children were distracted with the toys in the playroom! It is perhaps appropriate that this month’s photo was taken… Read More
Dear family and friends, it’s Christmas time So here is the latest edition Of the last year’s news, set out in rhyme As now has become our tradition January: a cardiac catheter op – Jessica’s arteries need to grow more Before her next big op takes place Hopefully some time after she’s four February: Sophie’s… Read More
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