50 days of River

Fifty days of River: Connection, isolation and everything in between.

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  • River Starts School

    Well, the summer holidays have come to an end. The last week wasn’t overly exciting as we all actually caught River’s stomach bug, so it was mainly illness. Summer had some bike training and River and I walked around probably every local road going until he got fed up and would stare at me pleading,… Read more

  • A Parenting Fail (Or Was It?) So just a quick one tonight. I wasn’t planning on writing anything as it’s been a long week and honestly I’m very tired. But today I did a classic parenting fail and thought I should reflect on it. Summer’s Cultural Day At my daughter’s school they had a Cultural… Read more

  • A Rocky Start River had a restless night, waking upset and by 6am I was up changing his soaked clothes and bedding. He lay quietly under his red blanket, clearly shaken, while I tried to balance getting him calm and ready with also preparing Summer for her first day back at school. The mention of… Read more