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Me, Thomas, Sophie (holding a photo of Jessica) and my husband in front of the river at Denham Country Park

Me and Mine – October 2022

October was another busy month with me rehearsing two shows and Sophie performing in a dance festival and celebrating her ninth birthday. Thomas is enjoying school and making friends. Life…

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Friday Focus 04/11/2022 – Jam-packed

It’s been a very busy couple of weeks, jam-packed with half-term activities, two sets of show rehearsals for me, a dance festival for Sophie plus all the celebrations that came…

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Friday Focus 21/10/2022 – Unsettled

I’ve been feeling unsettled lately. It’s down to a combination of things – various curveballs being thrown my way here and there, audition anxiety, grief, not sleeping well (probably due…

Sophie and Thomas cuddling on the sofa next to a photo of Jessica from her photo blanket

Siblings – October 2022

The first half-term of the school year is almost done and as always, it seems to have gone by rather quickly. Thomas has enjoyed his first half term at school…

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Friday Focus 07/10/2022 – Shows

I’ve been enjoying getting back into rehearsing for shows again over the last couple of weeks. We had our show anniversary concert at the end of September and it was…

My husband, Thomas, me and Sophie sitting on a picnic blanket at Jessica's forever bed with her Twilight Sparkle unicorn birthday cake on the picnic blanket in front of us

Me and Mine – September 2022

September was quite an intense month with everything that was going on. It’s an emotional rollercoaster of a month anyway, with back to school and Jessica’s birthday. Back-to-school was even…

Sophie and Thomas snuggled under 'the Jessica blanket' with Jessica's photo cushion next to them

Siblings – September 2022

September has been an emotional month with the first day of the new school year falling on what would have been Jessica’s 11th birthday. She would have been very excited…

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Friday Focus 23/09/2022 – Crazy

It’s been another crazy week getting ready for my church’s 50th anniversary weekend this weekend. Another week with a huge to-do list and wishing for more hours in the day,…

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Friday Focus 16/09/2022 – Hectic

This week has been a pretty hectic one. We have our church’s 50th anniversary celebratory weekend coming up and I’ve been busy sorting out publicity, programmes and services and fitting…

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Friday Focus 09/09/2022 – Mourning

We’re in a period of national mourning following the death of HM The Queen yesterday. Such sad news. Sophie said yesterday evening that it felt strange that we now have…