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An almost finished product.

May 14, 2013 by

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 […]

Filed Under: Amelie, Fran, Maddy, Sport & Dance, The Girls Tagged With: Ghost Dance, My Name is Tallulah, The Wizard & I

A walk.

November 26, 2012 by

It shouldn't seem like a big thing, because it isn't. Only it is, because the last 3 years I've really struggled to go out without another adult. It's a much bigger problem than I've wanted to admit and I've hidden it better than I might have because there is usually Max or a friend to […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Grief, Home Education, The Girls, Trips Out

That moment.

November 21, 2012 by

When programmes celebrating the past decades come up on television, the things that make me ooh and aah are often the brand names on the shop shelves of bygone shops; products in packaging once so familiar, which reprise in more modern form in our cupboards now. Custard powder packets, golden syrup, soaps and cleaning products, […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, The Girls Tagged With: brands, Lil-lets, menstruation, periods, pubert, tampons, teen pads

Night out. All of us. Nearly.

June 9, 2012 by

We went to a wedding tonight, the first time we’ve all been at a social event in longer than I can remember. It was nice. I like weddings and this was a lovely one. I’m hopeless at small talk and I hate dressing up but a baby solves both those problems and at least now […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Grief, Photos, The Girls Tagged With: family life after child loss, grief and parenthood, moving on, the space in the family

It just ain't penguin, son.

April 14, 2012 by

This is our first ‘proper’ holiday with a child in school, if by holiday you mean ‘getting your child back to actually spend time with rather than sending out all day, chivvying her through homework and evening activities and trying to make sure she washes her shirts’. I’ve loved having her about. In fact, so […]

Filed Under: School, Sport & Dance, The Girls Tagged With: drama, going to work, happy feet, musical theatre

Moondial Day

April 9, 2011 by

These are a few of my favourite things. We had a family day out to Belton House, home of the Moondial. We’ve got a lot of fond memories of being there, it’s one of our haunts (and was even one of mine, as I had a school trip there once when I was about 9), […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Freddie, Nature Walk, Photos, The Girls, Trips Out Tagged With: Belton House, family days out, life after child loss, living with infant loss, Moondial

Friday Blog Hop – Happy

March 25, 2011 by

These days, when I look in my girls eyes, I can see many things. I can see that they’ve been sad, terribly, terribly sad and that it will be with them forever. But I also see girls who know how to be happy; every day I see them take a deep breath, shake themselves and […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Josie, Photos, The Girls Tagged With: being happy, daffodils, happiness after grief, happy, little stuff, magnolia trees

The End of All Things

March 17, 2011 by

The one that starts with things endings and ends with things beginning and covers up an awful lot of wondering “how could you?” It has been a horrible week; I’ve cried harder this week than I have all year, mostly bout things I can’t write and partly because anything stressful turns into more tears about […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Freddie, Gymnastics, Music, Sport & Dance, The Girls, Trying to Conceive, Wed Ed Group Tagged With: dancing, grief, gymnastics, infant loss, music lessons, trying to conceive

Plans – do we carry on?

January 3, 2011 by

Over the last few days, Max and I have started to vocalise some of the feelings we currently have about being a home educating family from the perspective of where we find ourselves now. The conversations are hard, if I’m honest. I don’t think there is any doubt that right now, as a commitment, home […]

Filed Under: Home Education, The Girls Tagged With: educating at home, education outside school, Home Education, home schooling, teaching children at home

Still here, more or less

December 9, 2010 by

Last week we were away in Devon for a annual holiday with friends in a Youth Hostel. I’d like to say I had a great time, but I didn’t, it was just too hard, but the GIRLS had a LOVELY time and really, that’s nearly all that matters. It’s incredibly comforting to be in the […]

Filed Under: Freddie, The Girls, Trips Out Tagged With: baby loss, child loss, grief, life after loss, losing a child, neonatal death

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