Category Archives: Life

Getting Christmas

I thought maybe that Tom’s third festive season would be the one where he started “getting” Christmas, but the whole thing seemed to be passing him by. I suppose the whole world is still a bit too novel to him … Continue reading

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Guilt trip

I upset myself earlier. We were home from hospital, Jane was resting and I was occupied with calming the new baby. Tom was passing me Lego, trying to get me to play with him. I looked into his face, calm … Continue reading

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Thankful

Today our daughter was born. Healthy, beautiful, absolutely brimming with life. Her name is Emily. Six months ago we were told she was sharing the womb with a twin. This twin, tragically, didn’t have all the bits needed for life. … Continue reading

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Friday is Baby Day

This hasn’t, I’ll freely admit, been a Fun Pregnancy. But after all the trials and tribulations, the days and days of scans, the months of worries and the horrible late night hours of Very Dark Thoughts, we finally have something … Continue reading

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Speaking Up

Tom’s speech development has been slow, but recently things seem to be speeding up. Continue reading

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Houseless

At the start of the year (as I’ve blogged before) we were in the sticky situation of owning 2 houses, but living in neither. They were the properties that Jane and I owned before we married, but been unable to … Continue reading

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Summer Blizzard

It’s snowing outside. It has been, on and off, for weeks now. A slowly wafting blizzard of fluff. Possibly due to the spring drought (the worst in this region for 100 years, I hear) the dandelions seem to be having … Continue reading

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Tiny Dancer

Every week that passes gives the surviving twin a better chance, so much so that (fingers crossed, touch wood, etc.) we’re now on track for a relatively normal pregnancy. I don’t even really think of the baby as one of … Continue reading

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Dear Twin

I know I shouldn’t think of you as a person. You never were. You were never going to be. Just an incomplete bunch of bits to make a human. No head, no heart, no chance of life. I really shouldn’t … Continue reading

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Scans and plans

We made the trip over to Norwich today, to see yet another consultant and get another scan to see how things are going. We thought today would be a scan of the live baby’s heart, but it turned out to … Continue reading

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