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Prom Day

July 10, 2014 by

The very essence of Fran. Beautiful from the inside out with that very fact etched across her face. We spent the day making her ready for prom, thanks to a couple of great friends who did the hair and nail bits I’m no good at. I hope her evening has gone as she hoped and […]

Filed Under: Fran Tagged With: growing up, prom

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

The Eve of Change

September 12, 2011 by

It’s not often I delete a half written post, but I just have. I wanted to write something meaningful about the coverage of the 9/11 anniversary this weekend, but honestly I don’t have the stomach for it. Maybe I’d just end up adding to the one thing I find so difficult about our world wide […]

Filed Under: Family Life, Thinking Tagged With: 9/11, children playing to cope with trauma, growing up, motherhood

The overdue CyberMummy Part 2

July 21, 2011 by

I should have written this ages ago but it has been a funny old month and practically as soon as I came home from the blogging conference, the very last thing I had the energy to do was blog. In fact, I’ve barely opened my laptop for weeks; I can keep in touch on my […]

Filed Under: Merrily Empire, Thinking, Writing Tagged With: blogging, cybermummy11, growing up, social confidence

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