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With a lot more people having discussions surrounding racism and the Black Lives Matter Movement, I decided that I wanted to open up my own discussion by sharing some of my personal experiences growing up as a mixed raced woman. I have often struggled with what to say and how to say it, and I… Continue reading Growing up Mixed Raced and what the #BlackLivesMatter movement has taught me

We are in the middle of week 10 of lockdown at the time of writing this and it's also officially half term which means a break from nagging my eldest about completing his home-schooling tasks. Actual sigh of relief and happy dance at this prospect! Thank goodness! To be fair to him though, he really… Continue reading My Coronacoaster: The ups and downs of parenting and working from home

Just another standard Thursday... ...My friend and I had exchanged messages of happy pregnancy milestones (there was 3 weeks between us and we both hit a new week on the exact same day). I was finally 37 weeks and that meant I was in the “safe zone” to be able to give birth in a… Continue reading My positive birth story

As part of the #Adventchallenge that I’ve been taking part in (well more like catching up on which is the story of my life!) I’ve decided to write this blog post in honour of day 5 (which was yesterday btw 🙈) and is all about ‘getting into gratitude’ I was so excited about this one… Continue reading Feeling grateful…

Monday 11th December 2017. A snow day. I had woken up feeling so much happier than I would have on a normal Monday morning. No Monday morning rush, no 8.20am whole staff briefing and no teaching 5 lessons in a row with a lunch duty also thrown in for good measure! Every teachers’ favourite day.… Continue reading Finding out…