On Friday morning our perhaps most beloved of all of us rabbit, died. Max went out to find him stretched peacefully out in their mini house. There was no evidence of anything wrong, he was chunky ad his eyes were clear and no obvious swellings or anything. He wasn’t particularly old, just 4 1/2 years, […]
I think it's gonna be a long, long time.
Dear Freddie, Today you should be 18 months old. Such a very big age, so very firmly toddler. Walking with bits of talking, chubby hands holding mine on days out in the sun. Proper food, maybe even a proper chair at the table. Probably in your own room, maybe even weaned. Dirt clothes from making […]
This week we learned….
That Maddy is a stop motion animation genius. There are 700 photos in that clip, all taken on my iPhone with no help (and only a Lego built stand for it) and all the timing comes from her singing the song in her head as she did it. I put it into Windows Movie Maker […]
Tommy's 5 Point Pregnancy Plan – Make a difference.
I have walked out of a maternity unit leaving my dead newborn son behind me. I have driven home, unaware that I left the building in my pyjamas and walked across the car park in socks and stared blankly at the car in front for a 20 minute journey home; that car had a ‘baby […]
Excellent with Irritations.
We are having a pretty good week, for a last week when all four children are home educated. As of Monday, Fran is a has been 😉 She’s been working quite hard this last few days, finishing off some of the formal work she’s done over the last little while, doing a bit more cello […]
Kidding Myself
Having let myself think it would get easier when I started to feel movement, I’m now finding it isn’t easier at all. This baby goes through phases of movement, which my head knows is normal, but my heart isn’t dealing with that at all. Yesterday, for the first time, I found myself thinking “we aren’t […]
Same as me
The woman in the cafe surveys my family with a smile. “Four girls,” she says approvingly. “Same as me.” I smile back, though these conversations are not easy and, when Max is there, I’m robbed if the ability to say anything that I feel comfortable with. Max has four girls. I have four girls and […]
Dreams : One : Two : Three
We forgot to go to Freddie’s funeral. We were busy, the girls were alive and needed us and life goes on and… oh my word, it was today and we forgot. Max was okay with it; after all, it was just a procedure, he didn’t need us there, the girls needed us. It was just […]
Definitely stuck on this house! (Win a Velcro House!)
My children are incredibly lucky; since they were small, having a mum who sells toys and crafty stuff has meant they have had opportunities to try out all manner of things. It is possible that the new Velcro Kids House is the best thing ever though 🙂 They’ve decorated, they’ve performed with it and they’ve […]
Defying Gravity
This is the name of the song which has been sung around here so much recently that eventually I sent an email to the girls theatre teacher informing them that she was likely to get custody of them quite soon 😆 This week they were at a workshop, rehearsing a short version of the show […]
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