Here's a double whammy of #familyphotofriday fun! Feel free to link up your posts from last week and this week...
Happy photo-taking and memory-making!
Showing posts with label sisters. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sisters. Show all posts
Friday, 25 July 2014
Family Photo Friday #28 & #29 - 18/07/2014 & 25/07/2014
Sorry that #familyphotofriday never materialised last week. Someone (!) forgot the schedule the post and then got wrapped up in getting ready for a wedding that D was best man at... Then I went back to work! Thanks for those who asked after me and wished me well.
Here's a double whammy of #familyphotofriday fun! Feel free to link up your posts from last week and this week...
Usual rules apply!
Share a family photo from your week just gone. It needn't be a Family Photo Friday specific post, I don't mind you recycling! You can join in weekly, monthly or just whenever you can. It can be a formal portrait or a snap from your phone, something you posed for or something you caught when no one was looking. It could be from a day out, a gathering, an activity at home, it doesn't matter so long as it gives a snap shot of what your family looked like during the week that's just been.
Give us a brief explanation of your photo.
I'd love it if you could grab the badge to add at the bottom of your post and Tweet about it using #familyphotofriday - my Twitter handle is @oneformybaby12.
Pop over to visit at least two other bloggers and see what they've been doing - maybe you can watch their family grow and change too!
Leave a comment if you can.
I promise to visit as many of you as I can and I'll pick my favourite photo to share next Friday.
Happy photo-taking and memory-making!
Here's a double whammy of #familyphotofriday fun! Feel free to link up your posts from last week and this week...
Happy photo-taking and memory-making!
Friday, 11 July 2014
Family Photo Friday #27 - 11/07/2014
Another week has flown by and I can't even tell you were it's gone. We've been quite busy and I feel like my feet haven't touched the ground!
My girls just get closer and closer. Now that Lowen is slightly more robust, she loves messing around with Effy. Here was a moment of quiet in the chaos after their afternoon nap earlier in the week.
Thank you everyone who takes the time to pop over and link up - I love seeing and reading about what you've been up to!
Usual rules apply!
Share a family photo from your week just gone. It needn't be a Family Photo Friday specific post, I don't mind you recycling! You can join in weekly, monthly or just whenever you can. It can be a formal portrait or a snap from your phone, something you posed for or something you caught when no one was looking. It could be from a day out, a gathering, an activity at home, it doesn't matter so long as it gives a snap shot of what your family looked like during the week that's just been.
Give us a brief explanation of your photo.
I'd love it if you could grab the badge to add at the bottom of your post and Tweet about it using #familyphotofriday - my Twitter handle is @oneformybaby12.
Pop over to visit at least two other bloggers and see what they've been doing - maybe you can watch their family grow and change too!
Leave a comment if you can.
I promise to visit as many of you as I can and I'll pick my favourite photo to share next Friday.
Happy photo-taking and memory-making!
Happy photo-taking and memory-making!
Friday, 2 May 2014
Family Photo Friday #17 - 02/05/14
May! You sprung up on on us somewhat unexpectedly!
The rules
Share a family photo from your week just gone. It needn't be a Family Photo Friday specific post, I don't mind you recycling! You can join in weekly, monthly or just whenever you can. It can be a formal portrait or a snap from your phone, something you posed for or something you caught when no one was looking. It could be from a day out, a gathering, an activity at home, it doesn't matter so long as it gives a snap shot of what your family looked like during the week that's just been.
Give us a brief explanation of your photo.
I'd love it if you could grab the badge to add at the bottom of your post and Tweet about it using #familyphotofriday - my Twitter handle is @oneformybaby12.
Pop over to visit at least two other bloggers and see what they've been doing - maybe you can watch their family grow and change too!
Leave a comment if you can.
Happy photo-taking and memory-making!
I don't know if I'm coming or going at the moment. I haven't seen much of the girls or my camera this week... So I had to post the linky rather belatedly to get a picture of the girls together this morning... Good job they love each other so much!
I promise to visit as many of you as I can and I'll pick my favourite photo to share next Friday.
Tuesday, 8 April 2014
The Second Child
Last night I dressed my baby in a sleepsuit that was mine as a baby. It was, no doubt, from a baby boutique, such was my mother's taste, but it didn't stop her chopping off the feet when my legs got too long. My elder daughter wore it, and now the little one shall wear it too. I LOVE that we all have this hideous sleepsuit in common.
It's funny, as earlier D and I were talking about getting Effy's first outfits out of the loft for Lowen. We had to buy little things the Lowen, as everything of Effy's was too big, even the neutrals I bought were 0-3. Having initially rejoiced with my wallet at the prospect of never needing to buy new clothes-that-would-barely-be-worn-again, I suddenly felt guilty. Poor Lowen will spend at least the next 8 years in her sisters hand me downs. Tomorrow I will go and buy a pack of Next sleepsuits for her, so at least she has something of her own.
An only child, I never had hand me downs. Except for my bike, which had belonged to my male cousins before me. It was, obviously, blue. And I bloody hated it.
It got me thinking about "second child syndrome". It made me think completely irrationally. Will she be forgotten about? Will she be resentful? Will she do things faster as she watches her sister do it? Will she be constantly compared to her sister? Will she struggle academically because her sister will always be doing SATs, GCSEs, A Levels first, and they're more important? Will I leave her sleeping upstairs and go out without her? Will she despise the hand me downs and pull the favouritsm card?!
Whatever she may think, my credit card is pleased that we have a seasonally appropriate, barely worn wardrobe in the loft. It's too good to be forgotten about. People always talk about "the second child" and "the middle child" in such a negative way, but there's plenty of good reasons too...
For example, Lowen will learn from her big sister's mistakes. She'll have heard us count to three with a sanction in place. She may have witnessed first hand what happens if you draw on the sitting room floor, or put the potty on your head when it's got wee in it.
She'll benefit from our mistakes, our parenting fails, but also our parenting acalades and successes.
She has her sisters' toys AND her own toys to play with.
She has enjoyed high class television such as Peppa Pig et al from a very young age. TV was banned until Effy was 1... That's education right there, that is...!
Most importantly, she had a confidant in her big sister. Always. She will never be lonely, or on her own. She'll always have a playmate, even when mummy and daddy are cooking or hanging the washing. She'll always have someone to blame.
And that has be worth more than a mini shopping spree for outfits she'll never remember instead of hand me downs.
Long live the hand me down, I say.
To the left, me and my dad, and to the right, Effy enjoying the clowns.
Saturday, 8 March 2014
Sisters
Here they are. They bring tears to my eyes.
It's not all four of us, but my slightly late contribution to Family Photo Friday...
The love they have for one another already is astounding.
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