This is the name of the song which has been sung around here so much recently that eventually I sent an email to the girls theatre teacher informing them that she was likely to get custody of them quite soon 😆 This week they were at a workshop, rehearsing a short version of the show […]
Archives for August 2011
Defying Gravity
Breathe Deeply… Take the Plunge.
I never did this with Freddie so early. This time, it is different. This time, if this might be all I get of this baby, I want to record every step of the way. Even though we’re already 13 weeks along. 13 weeks. 6 or so scans. Some ups and downs already, with a mysteriously […]
It's the thought that counts.
Flowers. The colour, the scent, the burst of outside that can bring a dull mood and a dull day instantly to life. It doesn’t matter whether I buy them for myself, or the come as a gift, but they always make me feel better. Whether they come from a posh florists in London or the […]
In a jam. Or in some jam. There was jam, anyway.
The country is falling apart. I’m having the most stressful week since last April. I nearly said of my life. Jeez. Anyway, you can tell something is seriously amiss with the world, because I made jam. This is quite possibly the most domestic thing I have done in about 10 years and not only that, […]
Silent Sunday
An Amazing Maize Maze at Millets Farm
Yesterday I took 3 of our girls on my first ever bloggy PR day to see the wonders of the Maize Maze at Millets Farm in Oxfordshire. You might wonder how much fun you can have in a field that looks like this? The answer is, really an awful lot! We started our day by […]
Taking it to extremes.
After rather pathetically realising my ‘stay at home’ status had become a little bit too literal in my last post, we’ve been out every day this week. Which has been some achievement actually. We’ve been various children down at various points of the week this week so the dimensions of life have been quite different. […]
At the Kitchen Table with Glow: Time
This is my contribution to the meme hosted at Glow this week on the passage of time after the loss of a child. Two others I love are by Jeanette and Jill who both, thanks to us ‘knowing’ each other online before the deaths of our babies, have been particularly special to me in the […]
