Tag: Birthday
Saturday Snippets 15 November 2014
{thinking} it’s been an odd week. From last weekend in London, birthday celebrations for Smallest on Monday, attempting so much stuff and managing so little, via a surge of grief on Thursday and then family gathering today. I could do with a holiday. On an island. With someone else doing the cooking. Please? {grieving} again,…
Birthday boy.
Tigerboy is two today. I can’t quite believe it. The time has flown – it seems moments since I was sitting painfully right here in this chair, crying, thinking I still had two weeks of pregnancy left. (Hint, I didn’t). In some ways he’s very much still a baby. The no speech makes him seem…
This time 10 years ago
We were in the last few minutes of being a three person family. Small was born at 11.18 I think. Although I had a blog, it wasn’t then ingrained in me to write everything up instantly, and I don’t think I ever wrote his birth story here (must have a hunt and check). He was…
I made the stars.
Walking through the dark woods tonight, hand in mine, Smallest looked up at the sky, and said in all seriousness “I made the stars.” I don’t quite know what she meant, but I wasn’t going to argue. In showing them to me with fresh eyes, she might as well have made them just for us.…
