I started off my reading year in 2021 with no pressure. I hardly read any books in 2020 due to home schooling and generally not really feeling like it. I had thought I had read 16 books in 2021 but my maths skill, being true to form, were mistaken so, as I collated the list…
The last month has whizzed by in a whirr of after school clubs, extra curricular activities and wishing there were more hours in the day. I remember when I was at school that I never thought I spent enough time at home and now I never think my wn children spend enough time at home….
I have managed to cope with having two children at school and one at nursery for the last six years but, when the youngest started, I began to worry that I was going to forget something. PE multiplied by three, after school clubs multiplied by three, reading books multiplied by three-you get the picture. As…
Wow. What a busy month we have had. The youngest finished nursery and the other two finished Year One and Year five. September is going to be here before I know it and the craziness will begin again except I’ll have to remember PE kits for three rather than two. We started off the summer…
Looking back at photos from the last month, it doesn’t feel like much has happened at all. We’ve just been plodding along with life. The first half of the month saw it feel very spring-like and we got outside a lot. The boys enjoyed going off with Daddy climbing trees and generally playing outside at…
For many people, owning a beautiful home in the countryside is the ultimate life goal. You’ve finally saved up enough money to move away from the urban lifestyle and settle down in a stunning rural location. Living in the country has so many advantages to the city. Day-to-day living tends to be cheaper, the air…
Before you get a dog, you probably imagine your life together and what it’s going to be like. If you’re like most people, then you will imagine that unbreakable bond between pet and owner, how you’ll be inseparable and be able to understand one another with just a look. However, building an unbreakable bond with…
I am a little later than usual with this month’s siblings roundup. The reason being that now they are pulled in different directions of the two schools and nursery, it makes it harder to get a photo of the three of them. Two I seem to manage and I did wonder whether this was the…
Halloween will be a very different affair this year thanks to Covid-19. For us, having no neighbours means we don’t trick or treat anyway so I feel like Halloween might not be too different for us. I know the children will be sad about the lack of Halloween disco at school though so I have…
Most months when I write the Farm life series, I write a similar thing ‘I didn’t think anything had happened until I looked back at the photos’. This month it is true. The farm has been quiet. Straw dragged on and on and on. It was the latest finish I have ever known. Since being…