That was our wedding! That’s my husband! That’s all our friends and family who did so, so much to help us prepare our wedding! And of course, that’s our girl in whose honour we got these keyring badges as my bridal favours.
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Kevin and I got married on Thursday 19 July 2018
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These are the moments of life and my life with Kevin and Coraline is built up of moments, and the beauty is in both the everyday and the extraordinary moments because they are spent with them.
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‘Ooh you’ll have to get a Ewan the Sheep,’ said a teacher (with a young baby at home) at a Conference I was attending.
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Pablo Piñeda: “My message to parents of children with Down’s Syndrome is at the same time easy and very difficult. Think of them as your child, not as someone with a disability.”
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The U.K. Blog Awards are doing a Thursday spotlight feature on a different blogger each week, and we are thrilled that on 5 July 2018 it was us!
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We are on board the 10.23am train. Coraline and I made it aboard.
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A mother recently wrote to me during her family’s week in hospital after her baby daughter was born.
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Now this last one we knew from the start: for us, what we wanted to hear when Coraline was born is - “Congratulations, your baby is beautiful”.
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Champagne on arrival
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Coraline’s speech therapist says to mimic the same sounds back to her so she will learn about copying sounds and turn taking
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This book is our nod to I.A.E.S.T.E. (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience). Since 1948 it has arranged over 350,000 traineeships in over 80 countries worldwide.
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I suddenly realised it’s not about the to-do lists; it’s about my attitude to them
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In my deepest heart I credit Kevin with setting joy as our backdrop when Coraline was born. Joy is the furniture of our house.
How else to put it but to say you feel your energy (even if it’s already happy and great) lift that notch higher from just a moment spent with him!
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A man in a shop recently said to me regarding Coraline, "ah it's all about her environment," and when your environment is Kevin you know the sky's the limit.
It’s the kind of thing I will be championing Coraline’s future school to do.
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One of my favourite times of day with Coraline is early morning after her first feed, sitting together like this. We sit together so I can hold her upright due to her reflux.
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“I love that bonsai tree; it symbolises our life. They’re the same age and they both came back from an initial adversity. They’re the same age and they’re both flourishing”. Says Kevin.
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They give you a real sense of community. I even filled in the online @bootsuk feedback form a while back as I wanted to honour how awesome they are. If you think, that’s just us; imagine all the other lucky customers they have.
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