Dear Bene, You are 11 months old. So close to a year. What I wouldn't have given to know you'd make it to the last day of the year. Even now saying that a day early feels like a risk. I've tried very hard not to make your first year about your brother. I think […]
Archives for 2012
It's Christmas time.
Merry Christmas. May there be joy and love and friendship and laughter and may the hearts of those missing the ones they love, find some peace this year.
It's not the end of the world, but…
While half the world was being stupid about some calendar that ran out of space today, we were facing something a bit different. Today was Maddy's endocrinologist appointment to discuss her enlarged thyroid. Yesterday we had blood results that told us that she had reasonably significant levels of antibodies in her blood, indicating that her […]
Review: Binatone KidzStar eReader
Given my high level gadget adoration status (so long as it isn't android, I'm yet to be convinced on those) it's hardly surprising that the girls are similar. This years christmas list comprises almost entirely gadgets… And if I had my way I'd be replacing my Kindle to a paperwhite (though I'm holding out for […]
A story.
Once upon a time there was a woman who had a garden. It was a good garden, bigger than many people could ever hope for, filled with beautiful flowers. None of the flowers were perfect, none of them were necessarily the rarest or most dazzling flowers in the world but it was hers and she […]
Sad
My blogging mojo is all gone, though it might be here if there was any time between housework and educating and holiday and taxi driving pantomime dancers around. And everyone else's christmas, which they remembered nearly as late as I did and so corresponding quantities of panic have been detected in those ordering from our […]
The unthinkable.
Grief sat heavily on me as I drove home yesterday. It was a day that could have been, might have been, a birthday. A sixth birthday. It's a loss eclipsed now, but not forgotten, even if I might prefer that. Even if it might be more politic. There are days when counting up the missing […]
Rock Doc in Cambridge Trip.
It's hard to believe, but my brother is a fully fledged rock doc, a doctor of geological stuff, on loan from Australia. We are very much enjoying having him here. Today, having navigated sick babies, freezing fog, various other things and goodness knows what, we took a day out for the girls to do some […]
Sponsored Video: Christmas
I’ve just come back from a week with friends who might as well be family; this year I played Santa, having organised the secret santa which always consists of thoughtfully made, cooked or thrifted gifts for people we have all known for nearly 10 years. Each year the gifts seem to get more beautiful, the […]
Where was I?
You may have noticed I was away last week, on our annual trip to a youth hostel with friends. I went away intending to do some work in quiet moments but the youth hostel had poor signal and Bene and I were enjoying each others company, plus I had the company of all my very […]
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