Every journey is a voyage of discovery – Clare Boylan The adventure is over. We are home and have been for a while now. The clothes that reeked of smoke from the campfire and physical exertion are clean again, my husband’s beard has been removed, the car has been emptied and bags lie around in anticipation of being put away…until the…
As a mother of three daughters I was asked to write about weddings from the perspective of the Mother of the Bride. I’m thrilled to share it here, hot off the press, from Bridesmaids Confessions. Just in time for Mother’s Day next weekend! I’d love you to go and read the story by clicking the link below. Have you had…
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This weeks Globetrotter is a special one as it’s my lovely Mum – Debbie My mum and dad are solely responsible for my sisters and my traveling genes. They took us on our first overseas trip when we were little and that started us all off on trying to see as much as the world as…
Playing favourites with my blog, not my children! As a parent I have always told my three daughters that I don’t have favourites and I don’t. They all have something unique about them and I love seeing how different they are to each other while at the same time being so similar it scares me! They tend to use…
I don’t often get requests for specific posts on my blog but recently I had a request for a post about how our daughters were named. This request came from my youngest daughter after she read a post where I told the story about how I was named Debbie. She wanted to know the story behind her name and that…
Originally posted on Deb's World:
Today should have been the happiest day of their lives but it was the saddest day of all. You may have heard of this but just in case you haven’t….. A young teacher went into her school last weekend to complete work for while she was to be away on her honeymoon. She was…
To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die I wrote this piece two years ago but it is still so relevant that I can’t think of any reason to change a thing. We all miss Cliff and there’s still times I forget that he’s not here anymore. One thing I have learnt during this time is that…
Thrills! I’m not the sort of girl who enjoys theme park rides, I don’t like heights and I don’t like being scared but I do like an adventure with some thrills involved. I once won the prize for being the slowest, most cautious person on a quad bike tour in the sand dunes and along the beach (what can I…
Final update from the Mother of the Bride (aka MOB) THE WEDDING of the year has been and gone. It was beautiful, amazing and everything we could have wished for. I’m happy but also sad – if that makes sense. We had the wedding over the course of a weekend with the majority of guests staying on site. The ceremony was held…
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Sarah at 28 I was lucky to have Sarah, my 28 year old daughter, visit for the weekend and while she was here I read a story in the paper titled ‘Like mother, like daughter? Three women compare their life with that of their mum at the same age’. I decided to do a similar story with Sarah and…
Update #3 from Mother of the Bride (aka MOB) There are now just 33 days to go until THE WEDDING. My daughter, B2B and fiance G2B, and two of the beautiful bridesmaids have just been and gone! We had a weekend jam-packed with all things wedding related. As they all live a long way away (with one bridesmaid still in England),…
I am upset that I have missed a bit of a milestone! I have now surpassed 400 posts – yay me 🙂 This time last year (almost to the day) I received a lovely message from WordPress congratulating me on posting my 100th post on my blog since starting it in 2012. That means, if my feeble maths skills are correct,…
Update #2 from Mother of the Bride (aka MOB) My daughter, B2B, informed me a few weeks ago that the big day was less than 100 days away. It’s now way less than that. Cue excitement levels rising!! I can’t believe that time is flying by so fast. She appears organised, so I’m feeling quite relaxed about it all too. B2B and G2B are…
Not the end of the world as we know it… don’t panic! The end of the birthday month, with my youngest daughter’s birthday this week. (The fact that she’s now in her late 20s doesn’t mean she stops being my baby girl!). As I mentioned in a recent post, I wasn’t expecting that, I wrote each of my daughters a…
I read somewhere recently, (I can’t remember where though), that the mother should be congratulated on the birth-day of her children rather than the way we do it now, showering the birthday child with gifts and birthday wishes. I presume because the mother has done all the work in producing said child. I don’t mind this idea! I remember sending my mother flowers when…
