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Archives for 2010

Counting Magpies

July 12, 2010 by

A very busy week. I’m hoping to persuade Max to blog Friday as a guesting blogger (he might) but I don’t think I’ll hang on for him so I’ll do a quick phot round up. After the busy weekend and then Monday doing art with le Ciel Rouge, we visited Stanwick Lakes on Tuesday with […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Freddie, Gymnastics, Home Education, Max Ed, Merrily Empire, Music, Photos, Sport & Dance, The Girls, Thinking, Trips Out, Writing Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, educating at home, education outside school, grief, Home Education, home schooling, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death, teaching children at home

Chased by Mr Barrie

July 10, 2010 by

I’ve always been taken by the story of Peter Pan, the little boy who never grew up. I fell for it completely in my last few weeks of school when, tail-gated by the recent death of a friend, my 6th form friends and I worked on and performed the musical as our leaving finale. I […]

Filed Under: Thinking

Funny Things

July 6, 2010 by

Children playing at Stanwick Lakes today. A much needed day out with two good friends. My perfect little heart, given to me by a friend. Love it. Kitchen windowsill. An African Violet given by a friend to cheer me up several years ago, an Orchid from another friend to remember Freddie, the Carnation that I […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

Duck Pond

July 6, 2010 by

I am ice. That is what I am. That is all there is. The thinnest, clearest, most fragile piece of ice on a pond at the start of a winter that will be long, cold and dark. The spring is so very far away. There are four little ducks walking on that sheet of ice, […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Thinking, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

Art in shades of pastel.

July 5, 2010 by

Continuing our arty-wordy theme, we took pastels back to Le Ciel Rouge today. Let the girls play and trampoline and socialise for a while, then chained them to the table to do something meaningful. Zoe got out some books and suggested they use them for inspiration and we all ‘art-ed’ together. I do think making […]

Filed Under: Arts & Crafts, Uncategorized, Writing

Previously, in the PoP residence….

July 5, 2010 by

There was much (MUCH!) Geomag play. Am seriously considering stocking these now they’ve relaunched. Amelie made me a present after a rather lovely nature walk with Daddy. Fran and I had been down to Addenbrookes for the day, visiting an incarcerated friend family while we were there. Fran got signed off from one surgeon too, […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Fran, Gymnastics, Home Education, Josie, Maddy, Max Ed, Uncategorized, Writing Tagged With: educating at home, education outside school, Home Education, home schooling, teaching children at home

Co-dependance Day

July 4, 2010 by

Today is mine and Max’s anniversary; we’ve been married 12 years. Twelve years ago today, about now, we were enjoying our reception, in the garden of my parents house, thinking wed done an okay job of what we hoped would be the biggest event of our life, the birth of our first child and seeing […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Thinking, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

Days that never came

July 2, 2010 by

Dear Freddie, 3 months ago today, also on a Friday, that laughably named ‘Good Friday’ you were born. You should be 3 months old. I think, now, that I never expected you. I was expecting, but I never believed you would come. And you never did. I’m never going to wonder whether to send you […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Letters to Freddie, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

Sometimes…

July 1, 2010 by

Some days it is okay. Other days it is mostly okay, with a few added tears and wobbly moments. And some days it is just not okay at all. Yesterday we received a letter from the Child Death Overview Panel, letting us know that our son’s death (condolences by the way) would be anonymously discussed […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

Trying not to have a virtual life.

June 28, 2010 by

When Freddie died, he was in my arms, the only time I got to hold him like that with no wires attached. We were tucked up in a bed, with the sun pouring in through the window, peacefully on our own, just the three of us. We didn’t have long, he lasted very little time […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

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