We are having a well earned few days away with virtually no WiFi but I didn’t want to miss our Thursday photo #69 so here it is. I’ll be back raring to go with my normal blog posts next week. And just to prove we’re on holiday, this is what I would call an oldskool holiday snap!
Why is it that we worry about school holidays until they arrive? The change in routine, the lack of time to work and of course, coping with the children. When they’re in full swing though, I always wonder what I was worried about. In fact, this has been one of my favourite school holidays ever….
When I started freelancing, the intention was always that I’d have a bit more time to myself. After years of working long hours and commuting, I was ready to carve out free time. Of course, I was being naive. I spent every spare moment either working or with the girls. But now, I finally feel…
What a week. I’d just got into a little bubble of cruising through life, working when I felt like it. But freelancing just doesn’t work like that. So this week, I’ve unexpectedly had quite a lot of work from three clients. Plus the usual bits and pieces going on with blogging and social media. And…
Over the past few days, we’ve been getting back into a more normal routine after a lovely holiday at Bluestone last week. I know people say that children need routine in their lives, but we’ve never really been that sort of family. The children go to bed at loosely the same time every night, with exceptions…
This week has mostly been about Libby, which is just the way she likes it. She seems to be growing up before my eyes, having turned six years old on Monday. The triathlon Before Libby came along, my husband and I had both started to get quite into triathlon. We’d competed in a few, both…
School holidays are a funny thing in this strange limbo we are in at the moment. We all look forward to the extra downtime with the girls not having to battle through their schoolwork. Then the holidays arrive and they feel somewhat odd. We haven’t been joining the hoards on days out to the beach…