Word of the week – 4 #WOTW

I am linking up again with Jocelyn from The Reading Residence.  The idea of #WOTW is to find one word that sums up your week. The word of my week is Baby has always been an active baby, but this week she seems to have gone into turbo.  Quite often when we are at baby groups, the other children are …

Wednesday Words #4

It’s Wednesday, so time to link up with Crazy With Twins Wednesday Words feature.  This week I took this shot of Baby when we were out walking.  I know she has very blue eyes, but I thought they looked amazing in this picture (no enhancement used!).  Then I came across this quote and the two seemed to match up. Pope …

The Theme Game #3

It’s Theme Game time!  The time to be creative and possibly win a little prize too, courtesy of The Reading Residence and Red Peffer’s linky.  This week the theme is ‘Play’. The main feeling I get from the word play, is of it’s universal nature.  Play is classless, cultureless, sexless, ageless and is not bound by species.  Children play…. Adults …

Word Of The Week -3 #WotW

I am linking up again with Jocelyn from The Reading Residence.  The idea of #WOTW is to find one word that sums up your week. The word of my week is This week I have an over riding feeling of being ‘blessed’.  I have been struggling with a few things this week and it’s easy for these feelings to get …

Wednesday Words #3

It’s Wednesday so time to link up with Crazy With Twins Wednesday Words feature. This week has been quite difficult for me.  I am struggling with some anxiety. This Sunday will mark the anniversary of the day Matilda Mae was cruelly taken by SIDS, she simply went to sleep and never woke up.  My heart breaks for her family every …

I Was Saddened By – The Prompt #2

I am linking up with Sara from Mumturnedmom for her ‘The Prompt’ linky.   This week the prompt Sara gave was So many things are sad, horrific even, in the world we live in today.  I have always been quite an emotional person.  As a child, mum always used to say she should have called me April, as the sunshine …

Wednesday Words #2

We can all get caught up in a blur of life.  The routines and the rhythms of our everyday lives can mean we race through moments thinking of our ever growing to do list.  This quote reinforced my desire to stop, take time and really see the beauty and value of all the moments we share, before they become memories. …

Mummy Guilt – The Prompt #1

I never realised that becoming a mum would bring with it so much guilt.  Even before Baby arrived I felt guilty for many things, not eating as healthily as perhaps I should or even lying on my right side (I read you should lie on your left side!).  I used to read countless forums and would worry I wasn’t doing …

Word Of The Week -1 #WotW

The lovely Jocelyn from The Reading Residence has recently started a new linky, called ‘Word Of The Week’.  The challenge being to to find one word that sums up your week.  I love a linky and a challenge, so jumped at the chance to join in. So the word of our week is I could have chosen a few other …

Invisible Pain

I recently came across a linky on Mad Mum of 7‘s blog, which aims to highlight invisible diseases.  Often people don’t understand the pain caused by something they can’t see, it’s hard for  them to quantify and so sometimes it’s as if it doesn’t exist.  A broken leg is easy to get your head around, but the countless invisible diseases are …

Wednesday Words #1

This week I have decided to link up with Crazy With Twins Wednesday Words feature. Words can be beautiful and powerful, they can also be hateful, damaging and everything in between.  Sometimes you hear a lyric or read a quote and it resonates with you and you will remember it forever. When I was pregnant I came across this quote …

Love The Little Things #1

I have enjoyed over the past few weeks taking part in the ‘Some Things I Love’ linky run by Morgana over at But Why Mummy Why?  Morgana has changed the feature a little for the new year and it is now called ‘Love The little Things’.  The essence of the feature is still the same, giving us a way to …

What’s In Your Changing Bag?

I was recently interviewed by the lovely Hannah who blogs over at Make Do and Push.  Hannah runs a weekly feature where she discovers the secrets of the changing bag! Here is my feature Thank you Hannah for the opportunity to appear in your feature.

I Am Me

Recently I saw a friend who I haven’t seen for months (since before Baby was born).  He asked if I was still teaching and when I said that I wasn’t doing much, he said “So you’re just being a mum”.  I struggle with this as I know there are more aspects to my personality than soley a ‘mum’, but at …

Some Things That I Love #3

Morgana over at But Why Mummy Why? does a weekly link up for us to share the things we have loved over the last seven days.  So here’s my love list this week: . Some thing I read: I have been flat out busy this week and I haven’t had time to read much at all.  I did start a …

Rest In Peace

It is with great sadness that I tell you my Aunty died today.  She had MS and had been poorly for a while now.  Last week they told us that she would not live to see Christmas and so my mum has been by her bed almost solidly since.  In the end she wasn’t able to eat or drink and …