A few weeks ago the girls were involved in a show at a new dance school they’ve joined. All the older three did something solo in it, though Fran also performed lots in group dances, at one point doing three consecutive solos to cover spaces by absentees and also led her little ballet troupe through […]
Archives for 2013
Growing Fabulous Teens.
If only there were a manual for bring up the perfectly balanced child. Wouldn’t life be simpler? If only, we all sigh from time to time, parenting came with a manual. Not one of the ones you can buy written by people who never had their own child to care for, but one tailor made […]
Not just a girl with Aspergers.
Todays #10wks10yrs post is about Maddy. It’s written with her permission and explains why one of the biggest elements of our life at times through the last 12 years has almost never been discussed on the blog. *** The internet is full of support blogs about children living with Aspergers and Autism these days. They […]
And now she is 11
Amelie. The name most often said in the house. Since way back then… And then…. And oh my goodness, I know this face now. With a certain amount of this along the way… I love them big, but these were special days. Suddenly this. This. Eleven. Almost her whole life has been captured here on […]
Stitched Sunday
With one blanket under my belt this year and the cardigan of doom finished (I don't think I like it though 🙁 ) I thought it was time to try something new. I've got another throw on the go but it doesn't need to be ready till autumn and I fancied doing something new. I'm […]
Making it.
We have a few rules in this house, not many, just a few. One of them is to not give up too easily, to stick at something if it feels hard, or too tough and get to the end of a term, or finish the exam you are on, or complete the show, or achieve […]
On yer bike.
Max and I don’t do a brilliant job of switching off from work; our weekends usually involve something, either sat at a computer in snatched moments between dancing runs or stock uploads or sorting out something or other while passing the unit. I work partly every day if I’m home in the week and even […]
Sponsored Post: A picture is worth…
In less than a month, this blog will be 10 years old. Sometimes I look back at the very first posts, though I like doing it on the wayback machine most to get the full flavour of how it used to look. Somehow, to me, those early posts are not the same surrounded by the […]
See the sun again.
April has come and gone. It was hard this year. Hard because it will always be hard. Hard because it fought against the Spring and the sympathetic balm of warmth and light that is normally so familiar, so sweet, so sad, did not come. Hard because there was no fug of new baby warmth and […]
Guest Post: Sand in Our Shoes
A rather persistent run of illness from… yawn… everyone in the entire house, has slowed up my 10 year celebrations rather. Sorry for the lack of blogging 🙁 However, here is a post close to my heart, from Suzanne at eggdipdip on leaving city life and moving back to Scotland, for a more open air […]
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