Month in a Minute – September 2016

04/10/2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

September was a month of getting back into a routine. Me back to work and commuting, after a week working at home due to shingles, and the kids back to school and nursery, although the small one still went to nursery during the holidays. It was less busy compared to some previous months. There’s been […]

Month in a Minute – August 2016

06/09/2016.Reading time 2 minutes.

August. Turned out to be a strange old month and I can’t quite put my finger on why. I had lots of plans to get things done, organised, but the list is still very long and I am still no closer to the house being sorted than I was at the start of summer holidays. […]

Month in a Minute – June 2016

30/06/2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

June has been a month of adjustments and celebrations. June has been the month we have experienced summer and winter often on the same day! We have begun, quite quickly, to adjust to our new normal. I returned to work after a 3 week break, 2 to be with Chris whilst he was in hospital […]

Month in a Minute – May 2016

01/06/2016.Reading time 1 minute.

We dreaded the arrival of May. May was the month of Chris’ amputation, a month where life would change, adjustments would need to be made and a new normal would begin. A month we were unsure whether we would get through unscathed or not. Now, writing this, I look back with a huge weight lifted […]

Celebrating Sams 1st Birthday

19/06/2015.Reading time 7 minutes.

It wasn’t easy this year for me to think about organising anything for the froglets 1st birthday. The date and the lead up to the date stirred a lot of emotions I really wasn’t expecting. Flashbacks of waking up and him being missing, of him shaking with cold or drugs or both, his swollen little […]