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Archives for 2012

It just ain't penguin, son.

April 14, 2012 by

This is our first ‘proper’ holiday with a child in school, if by holiday you mean ‘getting your child back to actually spend time with rather than sending out all day, chivvying her through homework and evening activities and trying to make sure she washes her shirts’. I’ve loved having her about. In fact, so […]

Filed Under: School, Sport & Dance, The Girls Tagged With: drama, going to work, happy feet, musical theatre

Remembering Freddie

April 13, 2012 by

2 years since we said goodbye.

Filed Under: Freddie, Uncategorized Tagged With: #rememberfreddie, freddie, loss of a child, neonatal death, remembering Freddie

Thank you and please.

April 13, 2012 by

I’ve had so much encouragement and support through this blog over the years and none more than in the last two years and the last two months. If ever there was a roller coaster of a life, we’ve lived it. Two years ago I thought I would never be happy again. It’s a different sort […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Madblogawards, the Mad Blog Awards, the mads, tots100

11 weeks old

April 13, 2012 by

So much has changed. Again 🙂 He smiles, cheekily and engagingly, he visits smiles on us when we please him. He waves his arms and is thrilled when they connect with things, kicks his legs to get rid of blankets. I swear he wees at us on purpose and is charmed by the cries of […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict Tagged With: 11 week old baby, baby development, life after the death of a baby, new baby, new baby after infant loss

Real blogging is hard to find.

April 11, 2012 by

Two years ago my head was bursting with thoughts and feelings and tears and fear and last year, worn out with another year of trying to conceive and grief and loneliness for a little boy who was never coming back, I just wanted to mark his moments and revel in having had him. We lit […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Freddie, Grief, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, grief, grief after 2 years, infant loss, loss of baby, neonatal death

Clearing out the stock room…

April 10, 2012 by

I’m in work this week, Ben tucked up on my front. And I’m clearing out the stock room. I’m going to be posting a series of pictures over on the Facebook page for PlayMerrilyToys. If you think you could give a (free) good home to a toy, then like the picture so I know what […]

Filed Under: Merrily Empire Tagged With: competition, giveaway, giving away some love, playmerrily

Competition Winners (Hama & Djeco)

April 8, 2012 by

The winner of the Djeco £30 voucher for PlayMerrily is Rollercoaster Mum, who was picked at random by number shout from Amelie. The Hama Beads were won by Firefly, who has a Freddy – correct weight was 940g so she was closest! Get in touch via the contact page 🙂  

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: competition winners, djeco, hama, playmerrily

Cousins

April 8, 2012 by

We are having a lovely few days. Comparing this year to last year is something I am trying hard not to do, because it seems unkind or disrespectful to be happy this year. But we are. Now is not the time to dwell or try to make sense of how unreal the last two years […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Family Life, Freddie Tagged With: family life, getting together with family, infant loss, large family

It was, you may say, satisfactory.

April 2, 2012 by

We took our grief to Audley End, a place I carried Freddie secretly one hot late summer day 2 1/2 years ago. Walked the same grass, trod the same paths. We are not the same 6 as then. We are not even 6. We are a family who count ourselves in measured phrases and appropriate […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Freddie, Trips Out Tagged With: #rememberfreddie, anniversary of infant loss, family life, infant loss, memorial for baby, remembering freddie on his birthday

I think it's kind of funny & I think it's kind of sad.

April 2, 2012 by

Dear Freddie, Today you should be two. We might have had a party, met up with your cousins and played chubby limbed boy games in the sun that shone. We might have driven trains on wooden track handed down from your sisters or bought you a new ride on car like the one Josie had […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Freddie, Letters to Freddie Tagged With: infant loss memorial, letter to freddie on his second birthday, letters to a dead child, life after baby loss

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