When there are a lot of the children in the house, a lot of needs to be met, meals to cook, places to be, abilities to nurture and worries to ease, there is normally something that gives at each stage. Sometimes a hobby goes, or a chink of time together, or a relationship falters a […]
Mostly… nice.
I’ve craved a year that could be called ‘mostly nice’ for the last few years. It’s been a while. Mostly painful, mostly dreadful, mostly despairing, mostly frightening, mostly stressful – those are the ways to describe the years from about 2006 onwards. From torrid times at home, to stressfully trying to maintain a business and […]
Thrifting a little at Christmas.
It’s an in joke that I totally fail to be thrifty at Christmas; I’m hopeless at working to budgets (Max handles the household money for most elements of our life) and hopeless at not indulging my children. I could blame that on more recent elements of life but it isn’t true or honest to blame […]
Family Frolics – finding joy on a grey day.
If this time of year is about anything, it’s about family time. We’ve guarded out time between Christmas Eve and New Year jealously for years as the run up to Xmas is a busy one for us with work anyway and latterly an emotional one. The last two years have been full of panto and […]
Sponsored Post: Simply Be You.
I’ve written quite a lot recently about trying to change my weight and my shape and how I feel about myself. Six months on and 1/6 of my body weight down, having overcome a huge hurdle in terms of how I think about food, I’m so much happier about myself. In truth, the change in […]
Bene's Christmas Stocking.
Last year I made Bene his very own Christmas stocking; as a January baby he was just old enough to enjoy unpacking one with some help and I wanted it to be special to him, not just bought off a peg. I have a vivid memory of the girls wanting to buy Freddie a […]
Got ya.
This will be our fourth Christmas without him. I’m quite practiced at this now. I’ve learned what to do and what not to do. I know I’ll cry when I see 5 stocking put out, but not as hard as I cried at 4 and when it felt like there was no hope of there […]
Favourite Fraction – not Fat and Forty.
If you know me on any of the instant gratification social media channels I live on, you’ll know I’ve been dieting. And I’ve been needily posting up my successes for cheerleading and praise 😆 If you remember back here when I was just starting out, I was already feeling a lot better. That photo was one […]
Who am I? Who are you?
I know I’m not the only one who has been left sadly bereft with the loss of Google Reader. I know they want G+ to take its place, but I very much doubt it ever will for me. I don’t want my content to be tailored and guided and sorted for me; I want things […]
Changing the story for the UK's poorest children #EducationMatters
About 8 years ago I was staying in a building where a literacy programme was running for young adults who needed a ‘fresh start’ and literacy help. As a group of home educators, late readers were nothing new to us, most of us there had at least one 8 year old who was not yet […]
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