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Having a Cleft Lip & Palate by Fran

April 14, 2013 by

I’m delighted to welcome Fran to the blog today, who has contributed a post on growing up with a cleft lip and palate. I’m sure it doesn’t need to be said that her attitude and outlook about her cleft make us very proud of her but it’s great to read how it feels in her […]

Filed Under: Fran, PoP at 10 Years Tagged With: #10wks10yrs, cleft lip and palate, cleft palate surgery, coping with cleft palate, living with a cleft palate, strained vocal chords, surgery, teen with cleft

The Ten Things That Make Me & Us.

March 27, 2013 by

A person, a family, are far more than a collection of things, ailments, personalities, looks, interests and abilities. What I notice more than anything about having a large family, is how we all alter with each other; each little change brings about something new. With the exiting of Amelie from every day home ed, Maddy […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Being a Parent, Benedict, Family Life, Fran, Josie, Maddy Tagged With: #10wks10yrs, about us, allergies, asthma, baby loss, blogging, bullying, chicken pox, cleft lip and palate, depression, eczema, family life, hypothyroidism, no toes

That Panto. Memories for later years.

February 12, 2013 by

When I was a child I wanted toi dance in a panto more than anything in the world. Actually, I wanted to dance more than anything in the world but my mum said she would pay for lessons for me (at 10) only if I phones up and did the finding out myself. I was […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Fran, Sport & Dance

It's like, fashion, right?

November 22, 2012 by

Being a bear of very little style, my children get most of their fashion sense from Groovy Girls and friends, most noticeably the daughters of my lovely arty real life friend Zoe (who has a mean art blog these days!) Zoe's girls have style in clothes and artistic ability and my girls love both theirchandmedowns […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Drawing, Josie Tagged With: drawing clothes, fashion design, history, learning about fashion

And now she is 8.

November 5, 2012 by

Josie, my little firework girl, is 8. I can't even say it seems no time, because so much has happened since, but still, I can hardly believe my littlest girl, my baby girl, is 8 years old. This year, for perhaps the last time, she still wanted all her presents from our shop; dolls, toy […]

Filed Under: Josie

Normal service will resume…

October 11, 2012 by

Shortly. Possibly. Life has got rather complicated. Not only do we have children doing what is fast becoming an almost impossible combination of activities but business is heading into its busy time and 2 of our staff are moving. Gulp. Luckily we will manage, but the well oiled machine will be, erm, using different oil. […]

Filed Under: Benedict, Fimo Models, Fran, Photos, Thinking, Trips Out

Re-vaulting change.

September 25, 2012 by

If you are a long term reader, you’ll know that by and large, with a few additional activities thrown into the mix, dance and gym are the absolute loves of my children’s lives. Dance, singing things, playing things, performing but gym plays a huge part in their happiness for three of them. The other girl […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Fran, Gymnastics, Photos, Sport & Dance Tagged With: dance in peterborough, footworks academy, gymnastics in peterborough

That mother daughter thing.

September 6, 2012 by

I probably should have had all boys. It' a long running joke that I am totally inept when it comes to having girls. I can't French plait, I don't wear make up, I own one pair of shoes and I'm fat and don't like dressing up in any way at all. I'm not much of […]

Filed Under: Fran

The summer is gone before it began.

August 21, 2012 by

Suddenly there is only 10 days left before my big girl is back in school. Oh, how I wish she had long private school holidays like I had. We’ve loved having the time together, the 7 of us. Holiday has really brought home how much I miss her in the house. Without her here every […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Being a Parent, Fran, Maddy, Music, Trips Out Tagged With: Acorn International, Dartmoor weather, growing up, guitar grade 1, music lessons

Not such a gym mum any more.

July 17, 2012 by

It’s been a long time since I’ve blogged gym stuff. There are lots of reasons for this, time being one of them. One day I’ll write more of what I think about it all but now is probably not the time. The girls still get a great deal out of it, though it has less […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Fran, Gymnastics, Josie Tagged With: gymnastic competition, gymnastics, gymnastics videos

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