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Look at me writing two posts in two days, brings back those summer holiday memories. But today felt important to record. One of those days I know I’ll look back on, so I wanted to write it while it’s still clear in my mind. The Start of the Day Today started off horribly. Our food… Read more
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So, it’s been a while, apologies for this. That second part of the spring term, although short, felt busy. I also got sick (spring flu), and I’ve been working on another project which I’ll talk about later. But for now, it’s the Easter holidays and, sadly, our holiday fund is empty, so we’re staying in… Read more
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A Library for World Book Day Well, World Book Day, or rather World Book Week has officially ended. It all went pretty well. My dress with books on it was pretty and I enjoyed wearing it. A few children asked, “What character have you come as?” and I simply said, “I am a whole library,”… Read more
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Back to Reality First week back has gone OK. We all struggled with the mornings, too used to our 9am holiday wake-ups and late-night entertainment. Getting up and dressed in cloudy London is a sharp snap back to reality. River has upgraded his “NO NURSERY” to “I DON’T WANT TO GO TO NURSERY,” which we’re… Read more
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Poolside Battles A few tears today. It’s our last day and I’m ok with that. River has reached his holiday limit and, if I’m honest, I think we all have. We could probably do with seeing some different faces. After River point blank refusing to go anywhere near the pool all week, yesterday I put… Read more
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Escaping January We escaped the cold and the rain and jetted off to the Canary Islands for half-term. The thought of finishing work only to spend a week planning activities, walking to them in the rain while Kike worked, just made me miserable. Why are we waiting for summer to go on holiday? I actually… Read more
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On Getting Better (and Thinking More) I am all better after my flare, it took about a week, as usual. As if on cue, Kike and the kids both came down with fevers and flu, so maybe it was simply that time where one body goes down and the rest follow. We seem to take… Read more
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I’ve lost nearly three days.I didn’t see it coming. My weekend was pretty average. I took Summer to her first swimming party where Kike and I got an hour to ourselves thanks to a very well-timed nap by River. It was mostly spent doing admin, but we managed a drink and some chips, which felt… Read more
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It’s been an interesting 24 hours, the kind that sits heavy and needs to be written out. And since that’s the purpose of this blog, that’s what I’m going to do. Yesterday, I left work and walked to collect River as usual. I was in a pretty good mood, listening to music, half-scrolling emails. Then… Read more
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It’s the day before we go back.Back to routine. Back to work, school, nursery.Back to after-school clubs, figuring out dinner, birthday parties at the weekend.Back to reality. It’s been a good Christmas because we didn’t do it. The second part of the week has been more challenging. River being out of routine is a bit… Read more
50 days of River 