I am the first to admit that I hate New Years Eve, and I would imagine that I’m not alone in that thought. Any occasion where you are expected to go out and have fun, whether you feel like it or not, instantly gets my back up and until last year, I hadn’t celebrated a…
When you’ve got children, Christmas is chaos. When you’ve got four, it’s bedlam and when you’ve got my children….it’s a whole new level of crazy!!! But I think that it’s finally safe to say we survived it, although my house shall never be the same again, and now as the madness subsides we have officially declared Christmas…
In July, 2011, when Eva was just the size of a tiny grain of rice in my tummy, and we were tentatively hoping to expand our family, our beloved dog Charlie died very suddenly and it broke all of our hearts. He had been such a huge part of our family for seven long years…
You know the drill, the kids have got their new Christmas party clothes on and you really want a photo of them looking gorgeous, and clean, before they are covered in sweat, snot and chocolate and looking as though they’ve been dragged through a hedge backwards. And yet even with a little help from your…
Last weekend, after much pestering from the children, we got all of the Christmas decorations down from the loft, up went the tree, out came the tinsel and Christmas officially hit the Dove household. And don’t get me wrong, I love Christmas, always have, but occasions like these are always so bittersweet. Every year, with…
Today was Evas first Christmas party at pre-school and having hunted down the perfect little dress, all that was missing was the shoes. “I need red shoes!”, she repeatedly told me, “Red, shiny, party shoes!!”. And after desperately hunting on the internet, and failing massively, I faced the prospect of a very disappointed three year…