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The Last Christmas at Home: All the Feelings I Didn’t Expect
I absolutely did not put “unexpected emotional ambush” on my Christmas bingo card this year. I was aiming for pleasant. Vaguely festive. Eat some food, watch some nonsense on Netflix, roll about like weebles after too many cheesy nibbles, doze off with paper crowns still on our heads, and eventually collapse into bed clutching an…
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Why We’re Home Educating & What’s Working Right Now
I’m going to say this upfront, so nobody feels lied to halfway through: this post does not contain an inspiring origin story, a five‑step guide, or a confident woman standing at the top of a hill proclaiming she has cracked parenting forever. This is not that; this is the slightly frazzled, real explanation of why…
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Our Travel Checklist So Far: What We’re Preparing Before Leaving Scotland
Right… deep breath. We are leaving Scotland. Not right now obviously (although I wish it was) but it is one of those things that I don’t think I’ll believe until my butt is on the airplane so I am saying it as much as I can in hopes that my brain finally clicks on. We…
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Why I Went Back to School as a Mum — and What I’ve Learned So Far
If you had told 17-year-old me that I would one day be studying for a university degree by choice, as a mum, while home educating, running a business, and preparing to move across the world… I would’ve assumed you’d been hit on the head with something heavy. Because back then?University wasn’t on my radar. Not…
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Degree Progress With The Open University – Round Up
Ok, I know it’s been absolutely forever since I’ve written a post. It hasn’t been that I forgotten (at all!) – just that I’ve been super busy with work, home education, our moving plans, uni, and tbh the more time that passed the more I stared at a blank page, scared of my keyboard and…
“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
