Me & my Four

I have started a post quite a few times but couldn’t seem to get it out. I seemed to have a bit of a block. Over the last year I have...

This week I ran a 10k. It wasn’t a pb and I have ran many runs before but this one felt particularly significant. In the last few months...

December is always a bit crazy but this one has felt especially so. We’ve had car trouble, usual winter bugs, all the Christmas shows and...

Yesterday I had planned to take the kids to the zoo. Tim was working so I thought we might as well get out for the day. I had got the...

I saw a quote recently from Crazy Cool Family which I’ve found both helpful and challenging: “Being grateful turns the negative into...

I’ve been a bit fragile since the craziness of building work even though things have settled and returned to ‘normal’. I think though I...

Its been a few months and to be honest for a while I thought maybe my blogging days are over. It feels like I’ve been treading water for...

I’ve not written for a little while and really its because I’ve not quite been in the right frame of mind to get any coherent words on a...

I was on a family walk recently and Connie and I were just ambling along at the back with the others pulling ahead. I thought about...

Looking through my photos from the last couple of weeks and having had lovely cards, flowers and new pjs from the kids today, I am...

I really love pancake day. We had pancakes for breakfast and for dinner. Its great fun getting the kids involved, perfecting our...

We recently went on our church leaders weekend to look back on the year and think about the future. One thing that so many people...

The last couple of weeks I have had quite a few busy evenings mainly church planning meetings. We have also started an extension which is...

This week we celebrated our lovely Lucy’s birthday. I quite like making a big deal of their birthdays and try to make them special. I...

I was always quite studious and enjoyed reading the bible growing up. I am quite competitive and if there was a challenge to memorise 1...

So Christmas has come and gone and it was lovely. Now a new year has begun. I quite like new years, fresh start, new motivation and an...

Phew! The last few weeks have been a blur of activities from nativities to Christmas parties to meeting Santa to escorting a Christmas...

I am not a morning person. To be honest I’d prefer to not talk to anyone for at least the first hour of the day. This is not helpful when...

I love cycling and whenever I can I cycle to work. Its helped that its being really mild this Autumn and not too wet until recently. When...

Do you ever feel like your children are not listening? I do, a lot of the time. It sometimes feels like they are completely disengaged...