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All the other things we've been doing.

June 21, 2010 by

I’m so far behind on the day to day life around here that I don’t think I can remember. Maddy went on her PGL holiday and loved it. I wasn’t really worried about her going, though it didn’t feel very long after all our traumas. She was very pleased to be going and came home […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Arts & Crafts, Being a Parent, Children & Grief, Fran, Josie, Maddy, Sport & Dance, Trips Out, Uncategorized Tagged With: children and grief, east of england show, family, grandparents separating, gymnastics, outdoors art, parenting, pgl holidays, tree pictures, using chalk pastel, writing Hinchingbrokke SCBU

The writing's on the wall (or window)

June 14, 2010 by

Maddy wrote this. I’m so proud 🙂 We had a lovely day at Zoe’s today. I took a variety of gel pens, some of which can be used on windows but all of which blend together. We got the kids to experiment for a while, drawing alongside them again to help encourage them. Then we […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Arts & Crafts, Fran, Josie, Maddy, Uncategorized Tagged With: art etc, art for kids, djeco gel pens, drawing trees, gel pastels, gel pens, home ed art day, tree pictures

This is how life is now

June 9, 2010 by

Wake up unusually cheerful. Very nearly bound out of bed without normal wallowing. Go to help Maddy with her laptop and CBBC has ICU style beeping in the background. Do my best but inevitably end up back in my bed crying. Beeping and anti-bacterial hand wash are, annoyingly, my two SCBU triggers. Make it through […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Josie, Sport & Dance, Thinking, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

'Seamingly' going okay…

June 4, 2010 by

It has been a LONG time since i have done dress making, a very long time. Funny how many things on patterns i imagine to be some form of inbuilt knowledge and only teaching Fran is reminding me i had to learn them. We aren’t doing too badly. This is for her Beatles outfit for […]

Filed Under: Fran, Knitting & Sewing, Uncategorized

Words

May 18, 2010 by

Every picture tells a story? A picture paints a thousand words? Words don’t mean anything? The problem with reality, even in the finger tips of a five year old spelling out the names of her family members, is it doesn’t always equal actual fact. And which is fact, 6… or 7?

Filed Under: Freddie, Josie, Thinking, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

The sun always rises.

May 15, 2010 by

There is some form of normality around, although too much of it is over laid by things which just aren’t normal and right now, if i’m honest, don’t feel like they ever will be. Reading this post on glow this week pretty much summed it up. The ripples really are everywhere. (Breaks to watch Dr […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Fran, Freddie, Gymnastics, Thinking, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

Bitesize Education and Learning from Life

May 8, 2010 by

Sorry, this is supposed to be a blog about home educating; the politics and the tragedies seem to have gatecrashed 🙄 Mind you, i’d love to think that the politics could take a back seat now but i’m faintly worried we’re going to have to have a revolution first. I cannot believe that we’re in […]

Filed Under: Freddie, HE Politics, Home Education, Josie, Max Ed, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, educating at home, education outside school, grief, Home Education, home schooling, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death, teaching children at home

Friends and Family

May 2, 2010 by

I’m struggling to remember the days properly. I seem to be regaining use of my faculties rather slowly, if i’m honest. When we came home from the hospital, i had literally lost the ability to control my body temperature, through shock or tiredness or 11 days in SCBU and shivered all night unless i was […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Josie, Letters to Freddie, Thinking, Uncategorized Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

Not tonight, Josephine.

September 1, 2005 by

Or more accurately, last night. She slept through. Please may she do it again? Best Josie moment of the day was suddenly realising she had gone missing and discovering her sat beside the crate of plums with a gob full of fruit and one in each hand. She has also taken a full bottle of […]

Filed Under: Josie, Uncategorized

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