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💕 UNCONDITIONAL LOVE 💕 Here are my boys, Owen and Carson. They are my little loves who constantly open my eyes to new worlds. They constantly grow, challenge and step closer to becoming who they are meant to be. My love for them has no conditions. It has no limits. It is more than all the universes put together. It is more than the day before. It is the motivation and the push. It is all the emotions. It is the awesome condition of being a parent. The condition of unconditional love. And that is a wonderful thing! For this month's #daysofsimpleandslow challenge I've teamed up with some wonderful friends to celebrate love in this month's 💕Love loop💕. Throughout February we introduced a new prompt every Tuesday to invite you to connect over this challenge and spread some love. This week's prompt (4/4) - Unconditional love Next story: @dorinelahamamci To see all contributions, follow the loop until you get back here.

3285 days ago we said “I do.” . . . The thing with planning a wedding is you have very specific ideas in your head about the day and how it should go. The timings, the decor, the weather. Some things in your control and a lot of things not. The day before our wedding my husband-to-be said as along as the minister is present we will be ok. Soothing words for my particular brain... The next morning while taking care of some of those finer details I had a call from said husband-to-be. He informed me that we needed passport photos for the register. I didn’t have recent photo and needed to organise one and fast - in between getting hair and makeup done of course. This threw a spanner in the plan and I proceeded to have a meltdown. No sooner had I composed myself I heard “there’s one more thing, the minister has double booked and cannot make it to our wedding!” You can imagine my response! To cut a long story short a plan was made and we did indeed get married by a lovely minister. I am sure there are many things that did not go exactly to plan on the day but to be honest I can’t remember any of them (except the minister and the last minute passport photo- I think I will remember those!). The rest of those little details and particular plans have melted and been moulded into one fantastic day. A day where we said “I do” to each other, a day where we celebrated with family and friends, a day where I danced so much that I wore through the heel in my shoes. In case you were wondering 3285 days is 9 years. Celebrating this day with our two wonderful boys. And the plan is to make cupcakes, but you know the thing about plans... The lovely and extremely talented @vanessacoetzeephotography photographed our wedding day💜. #positivelysquared #ourweddingphoto #wesaidido

🐠🐟 Let me introduce you to Fishy 🐠🐟 She is our Betta fish. I must admit I never expected to love a fish so much but we really do. Fishy loves leisurely swims around the tank and spa days. She is feisty, fancy and a big foodie! For this month's #daysofsimpleandslow challenge I've teamed up with some wonderful friends to celebrate love in this month's 💕Love loop💕. Throughout February we'll introduce a new prompt every Tuesday to invite you to connect over this challenge and spread some love. This week's prompt - Unexpected love Next story: @dorinelahamamci To see all contributions, follow the loop until you get back here. #petsketch #procreatesketch #fishillustration #procreate5

Happy International Book Giving Day and Happy Valentines Day!!! On this day, and every day, we should celebrate love and books and a love of books! I like to share both love and books so all my picture books are available for free download in all Amazon stores - link in bio! These include: . . Bright Blue Balloon . . . Hoo at the Zoo . . . Edinburgh City Festivity I couldn’t resist turning the bright blue balloon bright pink/purple to celebrate the day😁 This morning my boys surprised me with Valentine’s Day cards they made themselves and a heart made out of Lego and a cup of tea of course. Owen has the day off school today. Looking forward to playing all day!!! And we may bake something special too. 💜 Hope you all have a wonderful day Lots of 💜💜💜 #valentinesdaylove #bookgivingday #internationalbookgivingday #lovewithbooks #booksandlove

This time 9 years ago... . . . . This time 9 years ago we had our pre-wedding photo shoot to help prepare for the big day! It seems so long ago but I always love looking through the photos and reminiscing about our love and journey. We are laughing in quite a few of the photos which makes me smile so much! I think that’s what I remember most from the day. If I can ever offer a tip for brides-to- be its to have your make-up trial on the same day as your pre-wedding shoot 👍 Our talented photographer @vanessacoetzeephotography did an amazing job and we are so grateful to have these captured moments 💜💜 . . . . . For this month's #daysofsimpleandslow challenge I've teamed up with some wonderful friends to celebrate love in this month's 💕Love loop💕. Over the course of the next four weeks we'll introduce a new prompt every Tuesday to invite you to connect over this challenge and spread some love. This week's prompt - Romantic love Next story: @dorinelahamamci To see all contributions, follow the loop until you get back here. 💜💜💜 #loveloop #romanticlove #februarylove #weddingtip #vanessacoetzeephotography #positivelysquared

Happy #febookary ! What are you reading at the moment? I have always enjoyed reading and would love to read more. I have set myself a challenge to read at least one book per month. My current read is Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton. I have to say that I am throughly enjoying it. It’s not one of my usual reads but I felt inspired to read it after our first #ourweekendtheme in January when we had ‘Dinosaur Weekend’. Hubby and I watched the Jurassic World movies and I just had to continue the journey, so I decided to start at the beginning and quickly reserved Jurassic World at our local library #hockessinlibrary My other read so far is The Four Doors by Richard Paul Evans. Definitely recommend this thought provoking book. “A guide to joy, freedom, and a meaningful life.” . . . 📘The lovely @storytimeshelves reminded us of World Read Aloud Day on the first day of February. If you missed it why not have your own read aloud day today! . . . 📘 On 14 FEB it’s International Book Giving Day, what better way to celebrate love on Valentines Day!!! #bookgivingday . . . 📘 It’s also Library Lovers’ Month! #libraryloversmonth So spread the love and visit your library 💜 Also, our weekend theme is ‘All things Lego’ if you would like to join in or maybe have your own theme😃 Either way we would love to hear all about it! Just use #ourweekendtheme theme and tag @bright.blue.balloon so I can share in stories. Have a lovely weekend! 💜💜💜 #whatyoureading #readsomethingnew #readinglover #febrarybooks #bookdays #booksareawesom #legoisawesome #legoweekend #legotheme

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