Being OK

"How's things?" "You alright?" "How you doing?" These are all questions that we ask people at least once on a daily basis. Yet, I always think, how often do we actually want to know the answers. For instance, when I walk in to my local shop and Sheila behind the counter says "hiya, you alright?"…

Family Life update

Little love My little love is now 16 months old. Since my last blog about the family, I have returned to work, become very slightly less anxious and Leo has learnt to sit, crawl and stand. He's grown 11 teeth, had his one year jags and now he walks! He's a total jabber jaws as…

The Last 11 Weeks

Since The minute I was born I have always been a daughter, a granddaughter, a sister and a niece. I have never not been one of those things so I have never known how not to be one. To a degree I guess I have never had to "learn" how to be any of those…

After Birth

22nd March 2018. I had just given birth. When he was born, my son was 7lbs 13oz and 53cm tall. My emotions were all over the place. I kept looking down at the tiny, gunky person lying on my chest. My brain couldn't quite seem to figure out that this tiny person was the same…

Leo Jack and Me (The birth of my Baby)

On the 21st March 2018, at 8.30am, I went to the hospital to have my labour induced. All being well, I wasn't going to be leaving again without baby. Hubby was with me as usual and again, things got really real, really quick. I couldn't believe that our baby would be here soon. The last few…

The Pregnancy

I realise that in my last post I never said anything about the results from the ultrasound I had... I'll get to that in a bit. Following on from my previous post, I had just discovered I was pregnant. I was genuinely in shock and stood staring at the test for a good ten minutes…

My Siblings

(From 29th December 2016) I recently had a discussion with husband about what it was like to have siblings. To be honest I had never really thought about it much before because I have never not had a sibling. Husband is an only child but I have a sister and four brothers. Not all from…

A Dog on our Doorstep

(From 16th October 2016) Three years ago today my friend came home from work and told me and husband (who was my fiancé at the time) that a mutual friend of ours was looking to re-home her puppy. Now we had been discussing getting a dog in the previous few weeks but had decided that…

Back in Bedford

So I'm at the airport on route home from my annual trip back to Englandshire. Bedford to be precise. Sitting on the floor outside smiths, stuffing my face with various chicken sandwiches and trying to avoid the almost infuriating amount of different emotions welling up inside me. Otherwise I will be a nearly 24 year…

The Little Things

So just finished a nightshift and feel really crappy, tired, overly emotional and very short tempered, so to try and aid myself to feel better I've been trying to think of all the little things in life that make me happy. Especially after an awfully long 12 and a half hour shift. People always say…