OK, odd title I guess since for many people fireworks are a major part of the bonfire night celebrations. However for me I have a love hate relationship with fireworks. Where we live it seems that almost every street in the village has at least 5 houses that carry out a party at home so ...
Making Memories
Brothers In Arms – The Boys On The Same Team
I have loved watching my boys grow together. Watching Joshua become a big brother and a leader to his smaller sibling has been mesmerising. He initially started off being a tentative leader. Somewhat shy of standing tall and saying follow me. The transformation over the last 2 years has ...
Our Wedding Anniversary – 6 Years Married
Today is our wedding anniversary, 6 whole years we have been married but altogether we have been a couple of 8 years. It's been a whirlwind, with the arrival of 2 boys during our time together and several new jobs between. Then there is the in sickness and in health aspect of our vows. ...
Our Easter 2018
Easter for us was a laid-back affair that involved our fat comfy pants and chocolate. We had preempted really poor weather in the week and had a mini easter egg hunt just in case but had hoped we could have a full Easter egg hunt on Easter Sunday anyway. Unfortunately, Ollie was at work ...
Half Term And Some Much Needed One On One Time With Joshua
Life seems to be mega busy of late. Days are slipping by in the blink of an eye and the weeks are following suit. Term time weeks seem to be packed with so many after school activities with swimming, Beavers and football and that's just Joshua. So it goes without saying as the ...
Making Halloween Happy All Round
If you have been a regular reader you will know I have a love hate relationship with Halloween. I have written before about how Halloween is like hell for me and that trick or treating is the one thing that ruins it for me. So in light knowing what I hate about Halloween I have ...
Brothers At Play
The summer holidays have been super hard this year, more so than any other. I guess working full-time and having 2 children at home has been utterly soul-destroying for me and I have been left reeling from the guilt of not having as much time doing the nice things with the boys as I had ...
Developing Friendships
Over the last near on 10/11years I have had the pleasure of being friends with an amazing lady who I not only admire but also relate to on so many personal levels. Add this lady to my 2 friends who I have been besties with for over 17 years who are so like me its sometimes very scary that ...
May Bank Holiday Weekend
Last weekend we only had 2 days as a family and yet the list of things we wanted to fit in was somewhat unreasonable. The biggest job on the list for the weekend was to finally get into the sheds and sort them out, be ruthless on clearing out the clutter and finally get some proper shelving ...
The Easter Hunt
It's another first for Jacob this weekend as he took part in his first ever Easter hunt. The rain and out garden squirrel nearly stopped play but I waited till the afternoon instead to get the boys out and hunt those chocolate goodies down quickly before the squirrel came back or the rain ...
Joshua’s Birthday Weekend
Well, as much as I hate to say he is getting bigger, Joshua's birthday weekend was a lovely one! We started with a trip to Wheelgate Theme Park and Waterpark near Farnsfield in Nottinghamshire that we purchased annual passes for early in the year and with previous trips being ...
The School Nativity
I guess for me the School Christmas Nativity is one of the main focal points on the countdown to Christmas and for Joshua who was a sheep this year he was close to boiling over in the excitement levels steaks! A month before the big event they were given songs to learn and over that first ...
Our Belated Bonfire Night 2016
This year the thought of the mad scrum to a local event and having a baby in tow we decided to make Bonfire Night more low-key this year and to still partake in some kind of event but this time from home. So this year we decided to set up our own bonfire in the form of a new ...
Blackberry Picking The First Tale
I remember large chunks of my childhood from a very early age and one batch of memories sticks in my head and still makes me laugh .... The blackberry picking afternoons. When going with my parents there was always the obligatory empty bread bag for each of us and the over expectations of ...