Hi, I’m Laura, wife to Gaz and mum to five beautiful children – Lewis, Joseph, Eva, Megan and Harry. Based in Lancashire, we share our travels, family adventures, heartfelt stories and honest reflections on grief and resilience and I hope you’ll find inspiration, comfort and a place to belong.
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Featured Stories
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The hardest goodbye to my big brother….
The last few weeks have been some of the hardest of our lives with the sudden loss of my big brother Stuart….
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Why our home will never be broken….
Over the years I’ve become very thick skinned when it comes to the Internet, taking every comment with a pinch of salt,…
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The elephant in the room
I am very aware that there are people following my blog who don’t know my story, who have perhaps stumbled across it…
Family Travel
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10 day Vancouver Itinerary: Your Ultimate Guide With Kids
Welcome to Vancouver—where urban sophistication meets Pacific Northwest wilderness. Having visited for the first time this year, we wanted to share our…
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20 day itinerary for Thailand with kids
After the success of our two week visit to Thailand with kids in May 2023, we knew immediately that a second trip…
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2 week itinerary for Thailand with kids
When we first decided to travel to Thailand I reached out to several tour operators for package deals and, having been horrified…
Babyloss Awareness
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Baby Loss Awareness: Fifteen years on….
So here we are, our sixteenth Baby Loss Awareness week since Joseph came into the world and, although I will always champion…
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Can a marriage survive the loss of a child?
After Joseph died, in the weeks that followed, when I scoured the internet for as much information as possible about stillbirth, searching…
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The things I wish I had known before I lost my baby
A few weeks ago a stranger messaged me via my blog to tell me that her sister had received the devastating news…
Letters To My Children
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For Lewis on your 22nd Birthday…
Lewis, I swear I was only just crying about the fact you turned twenty one and yet somehow here we are at…
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For Eva on your 14th Birthday…
Eva, It goes without saying that the year has gone too fast, I genuinely feel as though I have blinked and missed…
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For Meggy on your 12th birthday….
Meggy, I swear that with every year these birthday letters just get harder to write, partly because life is just so busy…
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