Two weeks from now, we will be in Colorado with Jamie’s family, she is noticeably getting excited. Everything she is planning, she tells the children they immediately become as excited as her, I think this will be the trip of a lifetime for all of them for different reasons. I will be the foreigner on […]
The teachers went out on strike again today and will be on strike again tomorrow, too, and this is the third and fourth day of industrial action this year. Reagans school is closed, but Lincoln’s school has said year six need to attend because it is an important year for them as they prepare to […]
Life is made up of moments. Some you wish could last forever, and others you wish had never even happened and can’t end soon enough. All these moments make up your life and mean that nothing is forever. You need to enjoy the good moments and hope they last and realise that the bad one’s […]
Reagan went back to school today after spending the weekend convalescing and as her Mom waved her off I just saw that glimmer of empowerment she has and just thought, she won’t spend the whole day at school, they’ll phone to say she needs to be picked up. Lincoln just gets on with life wearing […]
There was a time not so long ago when I would work at weekends because that is the five-star service I liked to supply but recently as you’ll know if you have read my blog this year that work has changed and is going to change dramatically over the next few months. I have been […]
Jamie asked me that very question today as though she didn’t know the answer? She is the reason I am happy!
Off to Leighton at 7am, to beat the early morning rush hour traffic, I hugged a hungry Reagan and told her I loved her and watched her and Mommy drive away. Her appointment was 8am and they were worried about getting stuck in traffic so when I got a text at 7:20 it made me […]
After finishing work at 5pm I went to the kitchen to make burgers, a request from Reagan as her “last meal” before fasting for her surgery scheduled for tomorrow. As I walked through the living room Lincoln started talking and just didn’t stop for the next 15 minutes, I didn’t want to extinguish his enthusiasm […]
I felt so good tonight from the time I got to the Legion and had my first pint of Guinness for over a year to now sitting here writing this blog. I have been chatting with me mates making them laugh joking around just riding that perfect time when you drink, not sober and not […]
My life is so boring when I read back what I write every day, today I spent the whole day in a training session at work but luckily had a hospital appointment halfway through which broke the monotony. It should be daunting to go and have my armpit scanned for lumps that could kill me […]