2019 My Life Project - Week 8

All of a sudden school break was about to end and the panic set in for back to school and back to work; it started to feel like the week had slipped away from us. We asked the kids if there was anything they'd like to do and they voted for Airhop, so off we went. It was terrible fluorescent lighting in a giant warehouse, with no flash allowed, so I had to whack up the ISO and embrace the grain, but that's ok, they had fun and I got a few shots...

2019 My Life Project - Week 7

A little late posting last week's photo(s). We were away visiting old friends for a long weekend near Derby. It's quite interesting to me the friendships we make in this life but more so the ones that survive.

I met my husband over a weekend away, we're from different continents and could never have seen each other again, yet it was meant to be and we've been married over 22 years. Our friendship with the Saxbys is one that has stood the test of time and international moves. Mark and I met the same year I met James, as part of a UK YWAM team heading to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

When you get a group of young singles together there is unarguably an element of people wondering if they will meet that 'special someone' yet we both had already met ours and so a wonderful, uncomplicated friendship began
... here we are 23 years later hoping our kids will also become good friends and I am so grateful that this friendship has lasted. This was a weekend of wonderful walks and climbs, a cosy fire, lots of late night talking after the kids went down, music and wine. I always leave our time together encouraged and challenged and this weekend was no exception.

2019 My Life Project - Week 6

Our eldest turned 15 this weekend...how did we go from toddler to towering above me? I just don't know where the time goes! He is such a great kid and I couldn't love him any more than I do. We had a fun family day together: did our first Escape Room and went out for Pho and he was so genuinely grateful. There weren't a lot of gifts this time as the big gift (for Christmas and birthday) is to get to go back to the States with his sister for a couple of weeks this Summer, which is all he really wants anyway...well actually he might prefer to move back but a visit back is the strongest runner up.

2019 My Life Project - Week 5

The weather forecast had kept predicting snow, and then it would change to another day...so after it had been promised all day Thursday, we went to bed that evening with a 'we'll believe it when we see it' attitude.

Our middle had run up excitedly a little while later to let us know it was snowing and we awoke the next morning to inches of the white stuff and it continued through the day. Schools and some businesses were closed and it was officially declared a snow day. The older two went off to visit a friend and go sledding while little miss and the dog played briefly in the back garden, making the mini-est snowman and a brief snow angel, before retreating back indoors to be warm.