Now this last one we knew from the start: for us, what we wanted to hear when Coraline was born is - “Congratulations, your baby is beautiful”.
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Champagne on arrival
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Coraline’s speech therapist says to mimic the same sounds back to her so she will learn about copying sounds and turn taking
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This book is our nod to I.A.E.S.T.E. (International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience). Since 1948 it has arranged over 350,000 traineeships in over 80 countries worldwide.
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I suddenly realised it’s not about the to-do lists; it’s about my attitude to them
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In my deepest heart I credit Kevin with setting joy as our backdrop when Coraline was born. Joy is the furniture of our house.
How else to put it but to say you feel your energy (even if it’s already happy and great) lift that notch higher from just a moment spent with him!
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A man in a shop recently said to me regarding Coraline, "ah it's all about her environment," and when your environment is Kevin you know the sky's the limit.
It’s the kind of thing I will be championing Coraline’s future school to do.
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One of my favourite times of day with Coraline is early morning after her first feed, sitting together like this. We sit together so I can hold her upright due to her reflux.
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“I love that bonsai tree; it symbolises our life. They’re the same age and they both came back from an initial adversity. They’re the same age and they’re both flourishing”. Says Kevin.
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They give you a real sense of community. I even filled in the online @bootsuk feedback form a while back as I wanted to honour how awesome they are. If you think, that’s just us; imagine all the other lucky customers they have.
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“You have always got a choice to simply let thoughts go and allow new ones to come in”
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Out with Coraline in the sling up the high street, on the train to appointments, on the train to coffee catch ups, to the pharmacy, to the supermarket. Together. In the winter, in the rain, in the sun. In the sling.
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In the last week of May Coraline and I went to the Children’s Centre and, later in the week, to a baby class for the first time after getting the go ahead from her Cardiologist.
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A good few years ago I was in a time of working too hard and trying to please everyone and I remember going to stay with my Dad at the time and saying to him, “but why would people like me if I don’t do that?” He replied, “for your essence. They like you for your essence”
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Wonderful day at my “royal” hen do in May as Kevin and I are getting married in July.
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Coraline loves to blow raspberries, which I have rather taken to too. Her young cousin said recently, “will Coraline be doing her signature raspberry?”
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Everyday when Kev gets home from work he sings to Coraline, from the Eagles, to Lionel Ritchie, to Luther Van Dross, to Gloria Estefan. You name it.
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Dear Mom,
Where to begin with Liz - quite simply she is the most amazing mama to Coraline I could ever have imagined.