As each month goes by My Diary from a Dad looks at what’s happening with our little family, through all the adventures, challenges and obstacles that come to our lives. As a family of 5, with 3 children at different ages every day, week and month can offer something different. It was January 2022!!! a new month a new year! and after the last couple of let’s say interesting years…what would 2022 bring? well, how did January kick us off?… View Post

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | December 2021

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | December 2021

In March 2020 I decided to do a Lockdown Diary, these were weekly but with the return to a bit more normality, kids back to school everything starting to open, I moved it to Monthly. With us still, in and out of Lockdown each month we were continuing through our Daily Life and Journey as a family.… View Post

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | November 2021

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | November 2021

Last year in March I decided to do a Lockdown Diary, these were weekly but with the return to a bit more normality, kids back to school everything starting to open, I moved it to Monthly, and with us still, in and out of Lockdown each month was continuing through our journeys. It was November 2021 and historically November is one of our busiest months with all 3 kids birthdays happening, let alone Christmas around the corner.… View Post

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | September 2021

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | September 2021

Last year in March I decided to do a Lockdown Diary, these were weekly but with the return to a bit more normality, kids back to school everything starting to open, I moved it to Monthly, and with us still, in and out of Lockdown each month was continuing through our journeys. It was September! Kids returned to school, a mini holiday, a Birthday and an anniversary, an action-packed month.… View Post

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | August 2021

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | August 2021

Last year in March I decided to do a Lockdown Diary, these were weekly but with the return to a bit more normality, kids back to school everything starting to open, I moved it to Monthly, and with us heading out of Lockdown each month was continuing through our journeys. We were now in August 2021 it’s Summertime! School holidays are here and the kids are off but how were we going to get on?… View Post

School return 2021 | Piglet moving on up

School return 2021 | Piglet moving on up

With Roo approaching the final run at high school, Tigger is in his final year of primary school before his High school adventure begins, there is Piglet… the outspoken, confident, adventurous, demanding, cheeky girl entering her first year, Nursery and Reception was over, it was time for her school return and for her, the school properly, but how would she get on?… View Post

School Return 2021 | Tigger Time

School Return 2021 | Tigger Time

Its School Return!, Tigger is the boy in the middle, he’s the quiet one, reserved, cautious, and just gets on with, in a house surrounded by girls we team up, but at school, its a big year, and for us as parents, it’s weird to think that are little special boy will soon be a high school.… View Post

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | July 2021

Diary of our COVID 19 Lockdown | July 2021

Last year in March I decided to do a Lockdown Diary, these were weekly but with the return to a bit more normality, kids back to school everything starting to open, I moved it to Monthly, and with us still in Lockdown each month was continuing through our journeys. This month was July! and it was time for the summer holidays! you could argue it was the beginning of more normal times with the recent relaxing, however, the month also saw a spike in numbers that threatened to derail everything again.… View Post

Scooters | The kids and their scooters

Scooters | The kids and their scooters

If you have ever been on the school run you will notice a sea of Wheels with some hardcore speed demons, these are the kids flying around and demanding to ride their scooters every day. But why are scooters such a fascinating thing to them? why even if they are naturally cautious with other things, the scooters allow them to push themselves to the limit?… View Post

Tigger | The Age of Change

Tigger | The Age of Change

Tigger is 10 and well on the way to 11, and as he’s getting older like many kids he’s changing, with this age bracket he’s caught between two significant parts of his life, being a kid and then teenager as he moves from one to the next, and with that, his attitude, likes and mindset change.… View Post