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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

April Starts

April 1, 2012 by

This year we will live April. And love April. And remember Freddie, every breath of his last good moments and his coming and his being and his going. April is for remembering. April is for being family and saying his name and being glad we had him.

Filed Under: Family Life Tagged With: freddie's birthday, life after infant loss, remembering Freddie

Takes All Sorts.

March 30, 2012 by

Back in the olden days, when I first set about home education, I was full of ideas and excitement about how it would go. I thought I would give my children a classic education which allowed them to know about and understand and have time to explore so many of the things that I wanted […]

Filed Under: Thinking Tagged With: childhood, crafts, flute, interests, parenting, steam trains

Letter to Ben : 2 months old

March 27, 2012 by

Dear Ben, Now you are finally asleep, having kept me carefully away from all the things I should probably have tried to do this evening, I can write you your first letter. I will make sure you never know how much I relish you taking up all of my time. I will keep from you […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Letters to Bene Tagged With: letter to baby ben, letters to my son

Recent achievements.

March 27, 2012 by

It has been a busy couple of weeks at The Puddle and has even involved, not infrequently, all leaving the house simultaneously 😉 Last week, Fran, Maddy and Amelie all took part in the local music festival. This year Fran brought home the cello trophy and Maddy the guitar trophy ( by default, but she […]

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: grade 1 violin, grade 3 cello, guitar solo, learning to ride a bike, Peterborough Music Festival, red tag TKD belt

Test post.

March 26, 2012 by

Move along. Nothing to see here. Well okay. Apart from a very cute baby being a flickr tester for me.

Filed Under: Benedict, Photos, Uncategorized

Think happy thoughts.

March 26, 2012 by

Very important to remember that even with very bad days indeed, things are still better than they were. No Freddie but Ben is much better than no Freddie and no Ben. ‘Ohana means family. Family means nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten. We’re broken, but still good.’ Oh, the wisdom of Disney 😉

Filed Under: Benedict, Grief, Photos, Uncategorized Tagged With: positive thinking

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