Over the weekend, we visited my family for our annual pre-Christmas get together. As many of my brothers, aunts, uncles, cousins and cousins' children as possible get together for a meet up at my parents' house in Lincolnshire. This year might be the last one we make for quite a while, because by next year we'll hopefully be in Australia. . . . Keep Reading
The ordinary moments #15
This week I've been thinking about what family means to me more than ever. If you've seen my previous post about knowing the symptoms of brain tumours in children, you'll understand why (and if you haven't please take a look because it's an important read). I hardly have any photos of me with my children. I tend to be the one with the camera all the time, so I take lots of them on their own, and of them with their daddy, but he rarely takes the camera off me to capture them with me. I want to . . . Keep Reading
The ordinary moments #14
While I was making lunch earlier, I heard a squeal from the living room. I rushed in to find T1 riding the rocking motorbike with his sister - thankfully it was a happy, excited squeal! It was just too cute. The rocking bike was his favourite toy as a baby and we've just got it out of the loft for E to play with. She's loving it! . . . Keep Reading
The ordinary moments #13
E woke up from her nap the other day with the best bed hair ever. . . . Keep Reading
My boys are four! The ordinary moments #12
On Saturday my boys turned four. As the kids have all had chicken pox this week we've been confined to the house for the whole of half term. It meant we had to cancel our plans to go to Paulton's Park/Peppa Pig World and we haven't been able to see any of their friends. Thankfully the boys were really excited at the idea of a little family tea party at home for their birthday instead. They got some fantastic presents and we got to snuggle up and watch some movies together. . . . Keep Reading