Happy Father’s Day (again!)

I couldn’t decide how to do todays posts… my dad and Anthony both deserved some words and photographs and so in the end I decided to give them a post each. This comes on behalf of Robyn and Katie too. Anthony is a wonderful Daddy to our girls, a really great Daddy. The love that [...]

The Gallery: Friendship

Over on The Gallery this week the theme is “Friendship”. I have 2 best friends and I feel truely blessed to have them both. 3 years ago today I married my soul mate. Here we are with our precious girls after we signed the registers in church… The 26th May 2007 was THE happiest day [...]

What a difference a day makes

Bear with me while I tell you a story… Anthony started his job at the Carvery pub a few weeks ago and halfway through his first shift he called me while on his break and said “It’s really dire, I want to just drive home!”. The food was awful and Anthony had no authority to [...]

The happiest day of my life

Anthony is listening to some very cheesy music from the ’80′s this evening. Music from 1989 to be precise (I’m not sure why that year inparticular!). In 1989 I was in my last year of primary school, we then moved house and in the September of that year I began my first year at secondary school. It [...]

Affirmation

Today someone said to me ”Wow! How much weight have you lost?!”. I hadn’t seen this person for a good few weeks and she said I looked fab. For me to be able to reply “I’ve lost a stone!” was wonderful, really great! We also had a meeting today all about Katie. We discussed what will [...]

Best of 2009: Learning Experience

I shall never forget the phone call I received from my friend just after we found out that Anthony had lost his job. She told me that good things happen to good people. She told me that if we think positive thoughts then we will get through it. I repeat that mantra many times a day. Good things happen [...]

Think Positive

Today has been pretty horrible. Anthony’s job is under threat. For regular readers of my blog you will know he was out of work for over 18mths until September. To say this is bad news is an understatement. A wise friend of mine told me this: “Try to concentrate on what you want rather than what you don’t [...]

What has made me happy today?

Right, I need to get back to blogging. Yes. I will try my very best, starting now. In a day that is easy to remember negatives I need to jot down a few positives. The things that have made me happy today are: Getting an email back from the local newspaper to say they are [...]

Katie: An update

Yet again I have copied this from an internet forum where I have lots of wonderful, supportive friends. I need to document the progress that is being made with Katie and it might be of interest to others. Today was pretty horrendous It started with attempting to get her to playgroup this morning. She screamed [...]

My favourite things

On my photography course this week I am asked to take two pictures of someone, somewhere or something that you really like. This has really got me thinking. I have been trying hard to think which two things are worthy of being at the top of that list and of course which two things are good to [...]