The U.K. Blog Awards are doing a Thursday spotlight feature on a different blogger each week, and we are thrilled that on 5 July 2018 it was us!
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We are on board the 10.23am train. Coraline and I made it aboard.
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A mother recently wrote to me during her family’s week in hospital after her baby daughter was born.
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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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Wednesday June 13th was a historic day as Coraline sat up on her own for the first time that I’ve seen her! It’s as though one minute she wasn’t, the next minute she was!
Until now we have put a hard munchable e.g. a carrot stick or a crisp on the tray but she wouldn’t pick it up herself so we would pass it to her. It’s amazing to think she’s made the connection to picking it up now.
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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Whenever you yawn she smiles back as she thinks you’re laughing.
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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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