• blogging - holiday - holidays

    Reasons to be cheerful

    1. I’m currently in Bruges, my favourite European city, with my husband, son and mum. I’ve spent the last two days drinking beer, eating yummy food and doing lots of sight seeing. We’ve also been on a horse and carriage ride around Bruges and a canal boat trip. 2. Edward is 1 year old tomorrow and I am so very happy to share the day with my husband and mum.  I’ve had an amazing year and loved every second since he was born. 3. I’m cheerful because I have a friend to share my thoughts, worries and fears with. She…

  • days out - parenting - The Gallery

    The Gallery: trees

    The theme for The Gallery had me thinking and looking back through my archives for pictures of trees. My son is obsessed by them and spent the first few months of his life sitting in his pushchair and watching the trees above him. However. before I found a suitable picture I remembered what my husband did at the weekend. We love geocaching and find it a great way to get out and about. Last weekend we went out for a walk round Ealing and bookmarked a couple of geocaches. One of them was in an unusual place. Yes, that’s my…

  • baby - daddy

    2011 a new me?

    I’m so excited about what 2011 will bring. 2010 has had its’ highs with the arrival of Edward as well as the lows with my husband being hospitalised twice. We’ve spent a large part of the year away from home due to his illness which put a dampener on my maternity leave. However we have a lot to look forward to with planning for baby number two and I need to decide whether to return to work or not in a couple of months. I HAVE to learn to drive this year. Every year I promise myself I will take…

  • Christmas

    Cyber Monday

    I hate to admit it but being married to a true IT geek means I am currently sitting in the hospital with my MacBook Air and MiFi card. My husband is asleep (and still no news when he will be discharged) so I am taking the opportunity to do a little online shopping. Apparently yesterday was Cyber Monday which sees a big boom in internet shopping and lasts for eight days. I’m still searching for a birthday present for my mum who is 70 on Thursday and I really like the look of some of the casual boots from Next.…

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    Christmas comes early

    When Edward was just three weeks old my husband had emergency surgery for a diverticular abcess. The pain came really quickly and was undiagnosed for a week before suddenly a blood test revealed what was wrong with him and he was rushed into hospital. It was a strange time in our life. We felt like we should be celebrating the safe arrival of our new baby whilst in reality we were separated and I was visiting my husband in hospital twice a day. That was back in April and after several weeks convalescing my husband was able to return to…