Uncategorized

This morning, as I had a brief scroll through social media memories, I came across a blog post from this day three years ago. As its title made clear, it was a significant date. It was the day I tendered my resignation from the role that had been my day job, and a big part…

It’s been six years. Six long year and yet six remarkably short years. Six year since the day we learned we had lost our precious, much-love first baby. It seems a lifetime ago and, in may ways, it is. After all, it’s longer than the lifetimes of half the members of our household, even if…

As Baby Loss Awareness Week draws to a close, I feel like I have to share some thoughts. Not that I’ve yet worked out what thoughts I have that I might share. But I guess in a way it feels like I owe it to my two heavenly babies to say something. It’s as though…

Today is the start of October and, as we head towards this year’s Baby Loss Awareness Week, the Moore family have embarked on a mini mission in honour of our little Lentil and Pip. (I say ‘mini mission’ now; I reserve the right to revise that description part way through the month if I start to…

Motherhood is exhausting. It’s busier than any other job I’ve ever had and there are many days when I get to teatime and realised I’ve barely sat down all day and there’s still plenty to do. Most days I dash around getting everything set up for bedtime while dinner cooks to save myself five minutes…

This week is Baby Loss Awareness Week and it didn’t seem right to let it pass without at least a quick blog post. This year’s awareness week is a different one for me. When we marked BLAW2018 it was our first since losing a baby, coming about 11 months after we lost Lentil. At that…

Do you ever encounter people on your walk through life, perhaps offer a word of encouragement or a bit of practical help then never see them again, wondering whether you had any meaningful impact on their life – whether it was worth it? Or do you encounter so many people day to day that you…

This week was a milestone for our little family. For the first time, Gary and I got to take our children to Keswick Convention – an event that has been part of our lives for almost as long as we’ve lived in Cumbria. Having been pregnant with Charlotte when I did my 10th year of…

Confession time: I had planned to post this yesterday but mum life is mum life so I’m now looking at the clock as I give it a last check over and it’s berating me for the fact that it’s already ticked beyond midnight. I’m not sure if the fact that it’s only 12.08am makes it…

Finally, we have news to share. He kept us waiting for what felt like an eternity beyond his due date and he only just managed to make an appearance before we had to call in the bailiffs but our second beautiful rainbow baby is here. Charlotte can finally hang up her “I’m being promoted to…