Leap Year (noun): A year, occurring once every four years, which has 366 days including 29 February as an additional day Yesterday was a leap year and some of you may have seen on Instagram that I have a tradition: …
Summer of ‘22
Bittersweet (adjective): Arousing pleasure tinged with sadness or pain Today marks the two year anniversary of Summer’s due date, the roundabout date that we should have a two year old with us. I said last year, that I’m still trying …
Mumoirs Second Birthday
Portmanteau (noun): A word blending the sounds and combining the meanings of two others Mum (informal, British, noun): One’s mother Memoir (noun): Historical account or biography written from personal knowledge It’s been two years since launching this website and I’m going …
The Happy Pig
Would you rather (phrase): A game where participants must choose between two challenging scenarios and explain why “Would you rather have a 10/10 happy marriage and have no children or have a 5/10 marriage and have two children?” That’s the question …
Our London Summer Run
Cancer Research UK (charity): 1 in 2 people will get cancer in their lifetime. Cancer Research UK funds nearly half of all the publicly funded cancer research, here in the UK I really haven’t given enough time, thought or appreciation …
The A to Z of Baby Loss
Words (song lyrics, Bee Gees): It’s only words and words are all I have There are no words? Yeah there are, lots of them. Lots of existing ones and lots of new ones popping up, all the time, too. So …
Two Steps Forwards
Path (noun): The course or direction in which a person is moving This year I said I wanted to move forward. Given that we are already one-third of the way through this year (seriously, how did that happen?!), now seems …
This Chapter
Chapter (noun): A distinctive period in history or in a person’s life I was reading a book a couple of months ago, The Midnight Library, it’s a place that people go, between life and death. When you visit the library, …
Stories for my Godchildren
Imagine (verb): Form a mental image or concept of I read somewhere that C. S. Lewis wrote his Narnia books for his goddaughter and I absolutely adored that idea. I’ve stored it in my head under the heading “godparent goals” …