Gingerbread Family - Juni 2021

We took for granted the time we had together in the past.  Now we try to steal moments together, in term time its easier, the boys go to school so we have the time.  With some lateral thinking we have a routine that works for us both and gives us equaly times totgether and on our own.  Hoidays and weekends are trickier but we are managing to snatch moments together where and when we can.  While waiting in a queue to ride the carousel or the whirligig for example, we laugh, cahat an dgiggle and make the most of the seconds we have together. 

Anytime is worth it though, he is fantastic.

Gingerbread Life - October 2020 🧡💏❤️

Happy Meetaversary

Yes, a Meetaversary is a thing.  It is the anniversary of the first time that two people meet.  It is a time to either celebrate or commiserate, I am obviously celebrating.  Thirteen years ago.......   Yes, we all know the story, drunken people, flight from Germany, Facebook, Peter Kay.  Well it all leads to here and now.  

We’ve had our ups (thankfully, lots) and downs (there has to be a few) but we are still here, still going strong, still getting to know each other and loving spending time together.  Although we both admit that this year we’ve more than made up for anytime we haven’t spent together, call it a lockdown perk. 

I feel like should do a where we were and where we are thing but I’m not sure I have the energy, to be honest.

Gingerbread Familia - September 2020

Home Styling - Fostering Edit

We were asked to send photos of ourselves and the house to the FA so they can put them into our profile.  It was quite a specific list, I wanted to take styled, Instaworthy pictures but GO said “just use the real estate photos.”  This got me thinking about how much some parts of the house has changed, would the old residents approve?  Has it actually changed that much? 

One photo requested, probably the most important was the photo of the child’s bedroom (is this real?). We sent the photo above, I had taken it to share on social media but never had.  We were asked to take another with all of the personal bits in.  It makes sense now, what traumatised child wants to walk into a room with a SMILE cushion on the bed?  Between this photo being taken and the one we sent GO had sold both of the singles beds (we got them for free on Facebook) as there was a strange, musty smell coming from them, and had bought a more solid white bed.  He had also decided to paint the drawers as he said they were too yellow. The new picture show a neutral room, a blank space to add to a place a child can make their own, for how ever long they need it.