The First Half Term 2022! While this first half term at school has gone by in a flash, it’s also felt super tough at times. I struggled a lot with Raffie going to school and still am. He feels too little and the time he spent as a pre-schooler feels like it was robbed with COVID so I’m sort of mourning the fact he’s not at home with me anymore on many levels. He is very happy to be at […]
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Dearest Raffie – You Are Five! Dearest Raffie, You are five years old! I blinked and here we are, my littlest boy at school and doing so well at that. Aren’t you just wonderful, living up to the name sunshine, I have always called you, in every way. You just love being a school boy and making shields with recycling as well as drawing lots of submarines (still one of your most favourite things in the world)! You are learning […]
Dearest Raffie – You’re At Big School Now! Dearest Raffie, You’re at big school now and after your first day of 2.5 hours settling in you came home having loved it! Mummy on the other hand is rather bereft of your fine company, or, rather, the knowing that I will lack your company far more this week. For the first week you only did four mornings but niw it’s onto full days and the reality of a full day in […]
Back To School – September 2022! The summer holidays are really over and here we are back to the grind in what seems like the blink of an eye. I say “back to school” but of course, for Raffie, this is his first year at school ever and his debut into the school scene. I very definitely have more than a little something in my eye for I’m not the Mum who’s pleased to see them go back, I’m not […]
Summer Holidays 2022 – Week Six! Well we had to come home from Tenerife at some point I suppose… It was hard to drag ourselves back to real life but we had a couple more days in the sun to see us into week six of the summer holidays before it was back to reality. And I guess having a week at home before the madness of school, and, gulp, Raffie starting (I well up when I say that, it […]
Summer Holidays 2022 – Week Five! More fun in the sun, we feel so lucky to be having such a wonderful holiday although we did have a bit of a blip when Raffie had to go to hospital with a poorly tummy. Medication for the pain, they think caused by swimming pool water he’s accidentally drunk, and a probiotic are his prescription and when the pain comes the drops really do take it away instantly. Poor poppet. He’s still enjoying […]
Summer Holidays 2022 – Week Four! The week we had all been waiting for, Tenerife baby! We spent all of Saturday packing and getting ready for our first abroad holiday in three years, first ever as a family of six and were almost unable to contain our excitement as we got closer to Sunday, the day we left. It was nail biting stuff with Tui playing silly buggers at Norwich Airport over the past few weeks and we didn’t know […]
Summer Holidays 2022 – Week Three! We began week three in our tent in Cromer staying at my favourite site, Seacroft. There’s a pool and with friends we had a brilliant weekend splashing, more surfing for Florence, beaching, eating and drinking. What a treat and the weather gifted us a huge slice of summer too which was just glorious! We went to Amazona Zoo on the way home, played football golf and then came home to unpack, get sorted and […]
Summer Holidays 2022 – Week Two! Second week and we are well in the swing with a weekend family BBQ with Jonny’s family, some shopping for holiday, a little bit of rest and relaxation (I don’t allow down time often, ha ha) and a LOT of time at the beach! Jimmy had football camp Monday to Friday and Florence signed up for surf academy in Cromer meaning it was daily trips to the beach for us. Fine with me as […]
