Slow Living: Small Adventures
Living Arrows – 37/52 {2017} “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth” One thing we have found incredibly hard to do with four young children is swimming. Our old leisure centre asked one adult per child for younger children. This meant we only managed swimming on holidays for our […]
Outnumbered
Wednesday this week marked the start of our summer holidays. We celebrated with two lazy days at home, filled with far too much Youtube, films and games. All the children were suffering from end-of-term exhaustion; they were grumpy and teary and needed time to relax. By Friday, we were all ready to escape and let […]
The End of the Baby Years
A few days ago we had Ava’s home visit, ready for her ‘stay and play’ sessions in September, ahead of her starting nursery two days a week. Her key worker asked was how was I feeling about September. It’s a question I hadn’t given much thought. September is a massive change for all children, a new […]
Celebrating the end of the school year
Our life has been really fast paced recently, mostly because of our ongoing kitchen renovation. It will definitely be worth it, but the early mornings and late nights have been really hard. Ava has suffered from night terrors all the way through too, maybe because of the upheaval. Our kitchen has had a complete replaster, […]
Extreme Reading at Fountains Abbey
If you have a primary school aged child, you have probably heard of the extreme reading challenge. You take a photo of your child reading in an extreme place, and the school hold a competition to find the pupil who has the most extreme reading photo. One of the biggest challenges for parents (and teachers!) is […]
Dear Amy, You Are Four!
Dear Beautiful Amy You are four years old, just where did the last year go little lady? If I had to choose just one word to describe my little Amy it would be happy. You always have a smile on your face or a spring in your step. You are like a shining star and […]
Mummy? We Want Another Baby!
I have been pretty quiet on this blog for a while. When life gets busy, something has got to give, and my blog has taken a bit of a back seat. Until recently, when my little Amy had to put together an ‘all about me’ box to take into nursery, and I decided to look here for […]
Dear Lily, You Are Six!
Dear Lily – You Are Six! My gorgeous girl, you are six years old! Six seems so much more grown-up somehow and I can’t believe it has been six whole years since we welcomed you into our lives. You started a new school in September. It was a completely new school, and building work had […]
When is a broken elbow, not a broken elbow?
When is a broken elbow, not a broken elbow? That’s the question we are still asking ourselves. A few weeks ago, I wrote about the night Amy hurt her arm on bonfire night. She was swinging between the arms of our two sofas and fell onto her elbow. The next day her arm had almost […]
Not The Bonfire Night We Expected.
Bonfire night is one of the nights I remember quite vividly from my childhood. The happy faces, the chill in the air and the smell of jacket potatoes in the oven. Some years we had our own fireworks at the bottom of my Grandparents garden. I remember some years watching the fireworks opposite our house […]