We’ve been taking it easy over the last week – enjoying the last couple of days of the half-term break and spending some time with my mum and my siblings before Sophie and Thomas went back to school.   I was quite anxious about Thomas going back to school after our eventful start to the… Read More

I’m thankful for being able to spend time with Sophie and Thomas this week over the half-term break. We had quite a traumatic start to half-term with Thomas being blue-lighted to hospital. I had a phone call to say he was drowsy and lethargic after bumping his head a couple of times at school and… Read More

I enjoyed being back on stage again last weekend for a musical theatre concert and getting to perform a solo along with a duet and several group numbers. It was a good distraction in some ways as the concert was on the anniversary of Jessica’s funeral, but it was also emotional too, especially as one… Read More

It’s been quite an eventful week on the whole with a busy bank holiday weekend with a dance festival, outing and sleepover for Sophie, rehearsals for me for next weekend’s concert and my birthday (which was a little more eventful than I’d planned).     Last Saturday was a very busy day with an early… Read More

It’s been quite a mixed week overall. There’s been some nice moments, a fair few stressful moments and some intense grief bursts. It’s 13 years today since we found out about Jessica’s special heart. I’ll always be grateful that it was picked up when it was, and that we had the time we had with… Read More

We’ve had a few firsts over the last week. Thomas came home from Boys’ Brigade last Friday with a certificate for coming first in the Anchors’ inspection marks competition. Sophie had a busy weekend dancing in a festival, performing two of her dances for the first time – a song and dance duet and a… Read More

This last week has been intense. There’s been the all the emotions that come at this time of year as we passed the sixth anniversary of Jessica’s death, along with the busyness of a show weekend for Sophie. I was chaperoning backstage on the two evening shows and got to watch the Saturday matinee performance… Read More