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Today, you turn 8. Happy Birthday my sweet girl…. Here are 8 parts of you… 1. YOU – You are so amazing. You are smart and smiley, beautiful and boisterous, hilarious and helpful. You love school. You love swimming. You love soccer. You love your grandparents. You love all your cousins. You are one loving soul! 2. ME – You are so helpful and fun, we laugh a lot. You like to tell me ALL about your day and {Read More}
You know how you get those people who get all uppity about Valentine’s Day? They say that you should show love everyday of the year and all that rot. I happen to LOVE Valentine’s Day – I love that it is a chance to shower the one you love with small gifts, have a candle lit dinner and remember why the heck you chose that particular person over all others. I prefer to get all uppity about Mother’s Day. I {Read More}
PANDA_Infographic_May_2013 I have been asked to write about my Post Natal Depression story as part of an awareness campaign for PANDA. I haven’t actually come right out and told my story, so this is a little raw. But, I tell everyone here that your story is what counts, so, I better practice what I preach. I am not sure where to start. Do I start telling the story from when I left London and how hard I found it settling {Read More}
I like to write letters to my nearest and dearest on their birthdays… Like Mr Cool, and Miss Z and and my mum…. Well, today is MY birthday! Yep. I am not getting any younger… le sigh. I thought it fitting to write a letter to myself. Here goes (this could get weird.) (Brace yourselves.) Dear B, What a year the last one has been. Major things have been going on, BIG life lessons have been learnt. New dreams, dreads, {Read More}
Below is an open letter to a blogger who has contributed to the Slenderman story. In the story, the main character wears an outfit that I put together… I can’t find a way to contact the person, so I hoped that a trackback might get his/her/their attention. Here is the link to the story (it is a little creeeeeepy)… Dear Slenderman, I just wanted to write you this open letter to say THANK YOU. Thank you for sending {Read More}
Dear Mr Cool, Today is your birthday (in case you didn’t know), so in true BBeingCool style, I thought I would write you a letter. Can you BELIEVE how much we have been through over the past year? Oh my giddy aunt! I feel as if we have been put through the wringer, stretched out, turned upside down and now… here we are. Still standing. I can’t seem to think of anything to say other than to say, ‘Thank {Read More}
I am back in the swing of the ‘If Project’ and today we ‘leave for London’ – the greatest city in the world (in my opinion). A lot of people don’t like London and I just don’t GET that? What is NOT to LOVE? Before I get on my hobby horse about why London is the greatest city on earth, I should tell you that Mr Cool and I lived in London for 18 months before we started making babies. {Read More}
I am coming to the end of a little blogging break. I wish I could explain why I felt I needed to do this, but I can’t. The story is long and boring and self-indulgent. I will return to blogging on the 1st of April, but just thought I would put up this post with some of the things that have been going through my head over the last few days…. Things I thought I would have learnt during my {Read More}
I spend a lot of time in grocery stores. I have three small children and a marathon running husband so grocery shopping is a big part of my week. But, I have been noticing something over the past few months. The music. A few weeks ago I caught myself singing along to the songs being played while I shopped. Songs that brought back so many memories and stirred up emotions that have long been forgotten. Songs that marked moments in {Read More}
Dear Tricia, Happy Birthday! I just thought I would write to you and let you know how much you mean to me. I think you are amazing. Really. Your story is not mine to tell, but… I have to say that you are one of the strongest, kindest, most generous and creative people I know. I know that you have been through hell and back, but you have not been hardened by it, rather you are gentle and fun {Read More}
