Welcome to Family & Connection, where we explore the evolving relationships that shape our midlife years — from parenting teens and supporting grown kids to nurturing friendships and rediscovering community. These stories are about staying connected through change, celebrating the people who matter most, and finding joy in the bonds that sustain us.
A couple of weeks ago we received a persuasive letter from our 6yo, asking us for a hamster… It turns out that when the school mailed this one to us, a second letter was mailed to one of his friends, […]
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Since taking her first steps the wee girl has been getting more and more confident! I took her and the 4yo to the park on Friday where there is a great area, with toys, that the kids can safely run
Look mummy, I can run! Read More »
Another stupidly busy couple of weeks, so another double helping of ‘My week that was’!
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After a rainy start, Mother’s Day turned into a beautiful day, so I wanted to get out as a family and explore another part of Middlesex Fells. We have already walked a lovely woodland trail to a ruined mill a
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My Mother’s Day gifts this year were wonderful – handmade with love! One however deserves some individual attention… My 6yo’s first grade class made ‘I love my mom’ booklets, a ‘fill in the gap’ type affair: I like that he
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The wee girl has been cruising confidently for a few months now, and is happy to walk (and wants to walk) everywhere – as long as she has hold of a finger! But… on Saturday, she took her first truly
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It is Mother’s Day in the States today. It feels odd to be celebrating it on a different day than all my friends back home did. In March, hubby and the kids bought me flowers to celebrate the UK Mother’s
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Today was a day to walk a Mile in Memory of a dearly loved child, taken too soon by SIDS, to raise money for The Lullaby Trust. Today many people walked in Memory of Matilda Mae. As we couldn’t join
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In a fit of optimism I have now packed away all the winter clothes… Other than a spectacular thunder storm on Wednesday night into Thursday (and to be fair, we actually needed some rain for the plants!), the weather has
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Yesterday a letter arrived in the post. Addressed to my husband and I, it was from the 6yo… We knew that his class had been working on persuasive letters. We weren’t expecting one to arrive in the mail! I opened
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