It’s been 7 weeks since I had my first proper day of “staying at home”. Approximately 50 days. Most of those days in lockdown. Knowing that I wouldn’t be able to do much of my freelance work, and that I’d be spending most of my time entertaining a nearly 3-year-old, I started off thinking up…
I never really spent time watching children until I had one. But now I have a 22 month old daughter, it’s something I spend a lot of time doing. I read a description some time ago that I love – saying that small children are like little scientists. They’re investigating the physical and social worlds…
I realised that I spend quite a lot of my time these days pointing things out to a small person. Sitting in the living room, I’m made aware of just how many planes come in to land at Heathrow each day, as I point many of them out to her. Wandering around the local area…
It’s been a week or so of lurgy. That horrid cold that just won’t go away. Turns out it’s all over the place, from Cambridge to California to Qatar, according to my Facebook friends. Anyway, there are always a few glimmers of loveliness in a week. Here are this week’s ones… Toddler antics – putting…
I’ve been feeling a bit out of sorts this week. Then while looking back through some blog posts I remembered that I went through a phase of writing weekly gratitude posts. So I thought I would try that, to focus on the good things that have been going on. I had birthday wishes this week…
It’s a weird thing. My daughter was ill last week, so I wasn’t able to take her to nursery. Or anywhere else where she’d pass on germs to other children. So I spent three days with her, pottering around the house, popping out for walks round the local area. And at times being driven insane…
