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Timehop reminds me. A timeline of Freddie’s life.

April 12, 2015 by

This time five years ago we were heading to the end. Tonight I’ll light the 2015 candles for the second to last time and from 9.15am tomorrow we will be starting the 6th year of life as a couple who lost a child. It seems impossible to believe it has been so long. It seems […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Grief Tagged With: freddie, grief, life after child loss, timeline of freddies life

Fifth Birthday

April 2, 2015 by

We had a good day. There is always a conscious group effort to be happy in his birthday, not sad.  What would be the point, after all?   We went back to Anglesey Anney this year. The weather had threatened to be really awful, so we didn’t make big plans and then Josie came down […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Children & Grief, Family Life, Freddie, Grief, Trips Out Tagged With: baby loss, birthdays, freddie, grief

Soothing Stitches: Wreath Update

March 29, 2015 by

  I spent the weekend away in Liverpool with most of my girls which, given where we live, meant a fair bit of time on trains. I didn’t crochet as much as I intended and it was a very busy weekend but I have made progress. It needs to be finished by Wednesday night though, […]

Filed Under: Crochet, Freddie, Spring Crafts Tagged With: #daffodilboy, crochet, daffodils, grief

Almost 5 years.

February 11, 2015 by

We’ve been listening to Wolf Hall; Max is highly familiar with it, having read it several times over the last few years. I’ve always shied away from it. I’m not sure why I haven’t wanted to read it, perhaps in case the hype felt overdone and the book disappointed me. I’m a huge fan of […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: acceptance, freddie, grief, life after baby loss

Making Christmas.

December 7, 2014 by

I don’t really want Christmas this year. Not in the same way that the last 4 Christmases have been their own tiny version of hell (I can’t believe this is our 5th Christmas without Freddie any more than I can believe it 3rd Christmas with Bene) but in a glum way, a dissatisfied with what […]

Filed Under: Christmas Crafts, Family Life, Thinking Tagged With: Christmas decorations, depression, family, grief, making time, mindfulness

The moany one.

November 26, 2014 by

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about this blog and what it is still okay to say on it. I was thinking today about voice and lost mojo and keeping up appearances and stiff upper lips and not going on about stuff and being brave and life goes on ish and how, because the girls […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Thinking Tagged With: anxiety, depression, family life, grief, marriage, school refusing, self employment

Going up North.

August 31, 2014 by

As previously mentioned, Fran recently got selected to play Touch Rugby for the Northern Stars, the north of England Under 18 squad. This has meant some training days and given where we live is really not-very-northern-at-all, the cost implication of this is pretty high. Having just had a week where the car cost us £600 […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Fran, Trips Out Tagged With: day out, Family Living Costs, freddie, friends, Fuel Costs, grief, lazy seamstress, Manchester, Stockport, Tesco Fuel Save, touch rugby

Everyone.

July 29, 2014 by

You wouldn’t know it, but this photo has all my children in it. When we first came here, all that time ago, 6 weeks after Freddie, I hunted for him. I found him here, by the stepping stones at this river. It’s the only place I’ve ever really felt him, in the swish of the […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Freddie, Trips Out Tagged With: dartmoor, freddie, grief, infant loss, moving on, stepping stones

The boy, the bed & the bedroom.

June 23, 2014 by

After 2.5 years, give it take the few cot months before the chest infections, this happened at nap time today. He’s co slept almost his whole life he naps on a mat at nursery but here he feeds to sleep and sleeps in our bed. Mostly he sleeps through if he has daddy for company; […]

Filed Under: Being a Parent, Benedict, Family Life Tagged With: bedtime routines, co-sleeping, grief, life after loss, moving on, toddler sleeping

Out of date.

June 12, 2014 by

Max and the girls had a model kit out at the weekend. It’s been in the garage, half made, for I don’t know how long, wrapped in newspaper, congealing paints, glue that has had long enough to go off and not stick properly. A relic of a different time. I couldn’t have told you when […]

Filed Under: Freddie, Grief Tagged With: anger, freddie, grief, hurt, loss

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