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Cotton candy jelly jujubes chocolate ice cream. Cheesecake cupcake sweet roll chocolate apple pie. Donut jelly-o chocolate candy gingerbread icing cheesecake bear claw gingerbread. Gummi bears gingerbread muffin apple pie…

Thoughts on the feeding front

It’s been a bit of a mixed week on the feeding front. In some ways, the current phase feels a lot like the newborn phase with Sophie wanting to feed…

Timeline of my day

03:30 – Sophie wakes. Feed Sophie to try and get her back to sleep 04:00 – Sophie finishes feed. Put in cot and return to minuscule space left in bed…

Silent Sunday

Black & White Photography Project Week 6

This week’s black and white photo is of my sister’s tortoise, Bentley. I’ve been enjoying playing around with monochrome since first joining in with this – particularly with the effects…

If I won the lottery

If I won the lottery and had lots of cash, I’d pay off all of my debts in a flash – A new house: not too big nor too ostentatious…

Jessica and Sophie with their cousins standing by the Snake on the Gruffalo trail at Alice Holt Forest

The Gruffalo Trail

Four cousins took a stroll through the deep, dark wood The girls saw a fox; by a tree the fox stood “Where are you going to, cousins so smiley? Are…

Support - this week's word of the week

Word of the Week – Support

I’ve found it difficult to find the right word to summarise this week but I’ve been mostly grateful for having lots of support.  Hubby has been away all of this…

Me holding a Speak and Spell toy with my twin sister and nephew when we were small children

Childhood through the ages

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,…

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Heart to Heart – August 2014

Heart to heart is a monthly link-up for heart families to share stories about their journeys. My eldest daughter Jessica has hypoplastic left heart syndrome and I started blogging about…