“You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth“
Kahlil Gibran
This week of lockdown has felt a bit tougher than the ones before it. And I think that has been due to one main reason: the change in weather.
This post is a hell of a throwback, seeing as the twigs are now 4! But I was looking back at old photos and thought I’d really like to write about their first birthday party. It was awesome but I hadn’t yet started my blog at that point. So here are some rainbow first birthday party ideas, that might be helpful in case you were thinking of throwing one yourself! 😀
Tonight I’m feeling like a crap parent. I mean, it’s not a one-off or anything – I quite often feel like a crap parent. As do most of us from time to time I’m sure! Usually it’s when I’ve properly lost it with one or both of the twiglets. And tonight I really lost it with C 🙁
I’ve chosen this photo for this week’s Living Arrows linky because I just love how enjoying the simple things can make kids so happy sometimes. In this photo the twiglets are eating homemade banana muffins inside a den they built. This would make it sound like I’m completely smashing parenting during lockdown, right? I mean, how wholesome and lovely! In reality, the muffins were burnt to within an inch of their lives and the ‘den’ was literally just a throw draped over a few garden chairs, ready to collapse at any second!
Helloooo! I was tagged by Simone from Midlands Traveller to share my Covid-19 lockdown silver linings. I posted before about how on the whole we’ve been quite enjoying lockdown life as a family. But I think there are also wider benefits for society to come from being on lockdown too.