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Had a sleep in this morning……actual luxury. No alarm, no rushing. My daughter was discharged yesterday, so we’re back in the “wait for the next admission” loop. Yes, the house needs cleaning. Yes, the garden is quietly judging me. But I’m calling it, this is a partial self-care weekend. Pedicure? Highly likely. Random drive? AlsoContinue reading “Sleep in required ✨”

There’s a definite shift in the air now. The mornings are colder, the kind that make you hesitate before getting out of bed, and the days aren’t carrying that same heat they were just weeks ago. You can feel the season turning, even if it’s subtle. Good Friday is only two weeks away, and withContinue reading “Weekend Ahead”

Today I sat down to write and realised I had nothing left in me and maybe that says everything. Not sad exactly. Not overwhelmed in the loud, crashing way. Just… quiet. It’s a strange feeling when life around me is still so full. My daughter is in hospital again. The house still needs doing. TheContinue reading “Blank”

As a carer, you don’t get the luxury of falling apart. Everything depends on you, the routines, the kids, the animals, the hospital runs, the quiet things no one sees. You keep it all moving, even when you’re tired beyond words. And then something shifts. A sentence. A test result. “Abnormal cells.” “See a specialist.”Continue reading “Positive Energy”

Rainy days feel like a kind of cleansing. The sky opens and washes everything down, the streets, the trees, the dust that settles quietly on life. But life doesn’t pause for the rain. There’s still work. Still kids to get where they need to be. Still animals needing care and attention. Still the hospital, theContinue reading “Rainy days”

I’m staying at my daughter’s house while she’s back in hospital again. The ninth admission in nineteen months. Life feels like it’s permanently packed into a hospital bag these days, waiting rooms, phone calls, and the constant feeling of holding everything together with thin thread. At the house there’s also the little dog. She’s eighteenContinue reading “The Quiet Hard Things”

Sometimes life doesn’t allow the big plans. Lately my money has gone into upgrading things around the house, and with illness in the background it’s impossible to plan a holiday. You can’t book flights or look too far ahead when you don’t know what the weeks will bring. So instead, I bought myself something smallContinue reading “When Life Won’t Let You Look Too Far Ahead”

Today was a slow day. Washing, a quick shop, feeding the animals across two houses, cooking, and a hospital visit. The ordinary things that quietly fill a day. Life doesn’t always rush forward; sometimes it asks us to move slower, breathe a little deeper, and simply get through what’s in front of us.

When you have a sick child, life becomes a rollercoaster. There are moments of hope, followed by fear, and then hope again. In between, you’re trying to hold together work, family, hospital visits, and your own mind. Mental illness is insidious. It creeps in quietly and touches every part of life. And in the middleContinue reading “One day at a Time”

We already know this. What we consume affects us. News. Scrolling. Noise. Positivity. Negativity. It all lands somewhere in the mind. It’s not a revelation. But when illness or mental health struggles enter life, the noise of the world can feel heavy. That’s when the small things start to matter more, kindness, quiet, connection. AndContinue reading “Live Kind ✨”