Blog 543: Resolutions

1st January comes round so quickly that we have to think about our goals and our resolutions for the new year. Did you know that by this time of the year most people have given up on their resolutions and most people don't even know what they set for the new year! Resolutions are broken …

Blog 542: Marriage important?

Have you noticed that the society we live in at the moment that marriage is not a big thing and not many people do it. They either live together, or live together and get engaged or just stay single. It is a very weird life that we live in and not a Christian one at …

Blog 541: Grief

Over the last year we have had a lot of people pass away whether from church or other people we know of and each one of them has been hard. Each of them have been hard in there own way maybe because I have been close to them, I have known them for a long …

Blog 540: Wifey Goals

When I was thinking of writing this I had no idea what I would write or how I would write this as it has been in drafts for a good while because I just didn't know what to write. I have so many goals as a wife that I want to be able to do …

Blog 539: Who inspires you?

Selena Gomez, Beyoncé, Kim K, Ronaldo, 'The Rock,' Ariana Grande, Messi, Justin Bieber, Taylor Swift are just some of the celebrities that people inspire to be. All these celebrities have millions of followers on Instagram and so people must be inspired by them and so they want to see what they are doing, they want …

Blog 538: How to move on

When something bad happens in your life how do you move on? It is so hard to keep on going when you have struggled through life and haven't been able to move on but honestly you need to move on and say goodbye to yesterday and try and move on. It doesn't help when the …

Blog 537: Boundaries

Throughout the years I have had put in boundaries. I have had to put distance between me and certain people, I have had to put boundaries in place to keep both me and my family safe and protected from certain people. Over the last year I have had to do this to what was a …

Blog 536: Dear Mum

It was just a month ago that we celebrated Mothers day here in the UK. I don't know about you but I would not be able to live without my mum so this is for her: Thank you for being the best, thank you for listening, thank you for your advice, thank you for the …

Blog 535: Where is home?

I've been thinking recently where do you call home? Is home a place? Is home a person? Is home a destination? Is home a group of people? Is home an animal? So many people will say home is a certain thing. We see signs all the time that say something like, ' home is where... …

Blog 534: God’s Will

Over the years people ask how we know what God's will is and how we are to know whether it is from God or whether our inner thoughts. Knowing God's will can be hard and it is something that we need to be aware off. We may know what God's will is but do we …

Blog 533: Herding

I have just been watching a vet program about herding animals and checking them and making sure that everything is ok. There is a lot of things that are common between animals and people, we all need care, we all need company, we like to be on our own, we like to have hugs and …

Blog 532: Don’t say this

How are you doing with marriage? How well do you communicate with those people around you? Would you rather confront or just laugh something off? It is very easy to think that everything is going fine until it really isn't! It doesn't matter whether you are struggling in a relationship or not it is important …

Blog 531: Celebrate Marriage

There are so many people I know that are married or who have been married. Marriage is something that should be celebrated and something that is special. Marriage should not be something that people go into lightly, you need to think, you need to pray and you need to talk to others about it. Marriage …

Blog 530: Thank you

I don't know about you but after every time someone gives me a gift I always write them a thank you card. It doesn't matter what they give me, it doesn't matter how small or how large I like to thank the people that have gone out of their way and have thought about me …

Blog 529: Single and painful

I have done a lot of blogs recently on marriage and now I think it is time to do one on being single and how hard it can be. Being single can be hard but it is one thing that everyone has been through and it is something that no matter what age you are …

Blog 528: The One?

If you are married how did you know that they were the one for you? How did you know that you wanted to marry them? I remember the day I met my now husband, I didn't know his name, I didn't know who he was but he was up the front preaching and I turned …

Blog 527: Single and lonely

I have written about this before but do think it is important to address it again. Being single is perfectly fine, being single is great, being single is part of your life. Everyone at some point in their life is single and you know what is perfectly normal. Not one person who is in a …

Blog 526: Marriage and the Bible

There are so many examples around us of a good marriage and others of not such good marriages and we don't actually know what is happening behind closed doors. Can you imagine a couple that you thought was so solid separating and not getting back together? Can you imagine another couple being together, getting engaged, …

Blog 525: No News

We have heard of no shave November and there is probably more that I haven't yet heard of but you know why can't we just have no news not even no news November! Why can't just one day we put on the TV and there is an announcement that there is no news because there …

Blog: 524 Celebrate now

How do you celebrate? How do you spend your birthday? I often see polls online to see whether you would celebrate out, in, with family or with friends. I just had my birthday and I have to say that I would prefer to celebrate in with my husband and with my family. I am not …

Blog 523: You are welcome

How often do you have people round you house? How often do welcome those people in that you don't really get on with? I know that talking to people that we do not know can be hard and certainly people from a different country can be harder. I certainly have this problem because I have …

Blog 522: ‘No’ is ok

I don't kow about you but I find it so hard to say no to anyone or everything. I don't seem to have no in my mind, if someone needs help then I am always going to say yes. I am always going to help where I can and if that makes me tired then …

Blog 521: Canine companions

I don't know whether you are an animal person or not, I don't know whether you like dogs or not but I can say that I am a dog lover! I have loved dogs all my life and I have grown up with them in my family. From the time I was tiny I have …

Blog 520: Half Term

I don't know about you but I live for the holidays, I live for time when I am able to spend time with my husband and I live for time when we can go away or stay home and not be on the routines of everyday life. I have not always loved the holidays, I …

Blog 519: Begin with Prayer

I don't know about you but I am not too good with my prayer life. I seem to have days when I pray a lot and then I have days when I hardly pray at all! I wouldn't say that is a good thing either. God wants us to come and pray to him for …

Blog 518: My favourite things

I don't know about you but I have so many favourite things. I love certain music, I enjoy baking, I enjoy spending time with my niece and nephew, I enjoy going for walks, I enjoy being with family and I enjoy being with my husband. There are so many things that are my favourite but …

Blog 517: It takes two

In the last ten years how many people including celebrities do you know that have split up or their marriages have been thrown into doubt? There are so many celebrities that have failed in their marriages due to infertility or something else. In 2022 alone so many celebrities broke up from Kendall Jenner to Harry …

Blog 516: Don’t let life speed away

Over the course of our lives we take thousands of photos, we all celebrate those special moments with loved ones, we all try and make sure we cherish those things that have happened in the past and those things that we want to try and keep in our minds. We cherish the small things as …

Blog 515: Try to be comfortable

Do you know who you are? Do you really know who you are? If you really looked into your heart ad your mind do you know who you are and what you want in your life? It is hard to really know who you are and who you want to be and that is okay, …

Blog 514: Talk about it

Do you ever go through a time in your life when it is hard? Do you go through life when you just want to give up? Do you want to give up on your life, your family, your children, your job, your marriage, your spouse but are not able to? There are always times in …

Blog 513: A silent killer

130 lives, 130 hearbeats, 130 children, 130 family members per day die of depression Roughly 280 million people suffer from depression everyday. 5% of adults suffer from depression worldwide 16% of adults in the Uk suffer from depression. 40% of people will experience depression at some point in their life. Almost 25% of women will …

Blog 512: Intimacy

Do you struggle to be intimate with your partner? Do things, people or places get in the way? In the world we live in it is often hard to be intimate with our spouses. We are pulled in different directions, we are tired, we can struggle and you know what it is perfectly normal and …

Blog 511: Nothing is off the table

I don't know about you but when I have a best friend/ got married nothing was of the table. I talk about anything and everything. I know that some people have that one person who they talk to about everything and anything. There is no such thing as TMI, no such thing as too far …

Blog 510: Just be patient

Are you patient? Can you wait for things? Does waiting cause you pain? We always need things to do, we always need to get jobs done and it is not easy to wait around. It is not easy just to sit and wait. There are so many things that we can't wait to be over …

Blog 509: Quick Tongue

How quick are we to want to get the last word in? We also want to be the last one to say something and for some reason we want to be the bigger person. I don't know about you but when someone cuts me of in the car it is very easy to say something …

Blog 508: Make a U-Turn

Its the 2nd of January and so many people have new years resolutions. We are trying to make a U-turn in the life that we lived last year. We are trying to improve ourselves, we are trying to be better than what we were. We are trying to make a U-turn in our life by …

Blog 507: Absence

I can't tell you how glad I will be when the new year comes in just a few days! This year has been awful to be honest, I will be glad to see the back of 2023 and hoping for 2024 to be so much better not just for me but for all of my …

Blog 506: Boxing day

It is not normal that I do a blog on boxing day but I thought why not. This time next year Christmas will all be over! This year Christmas is different from normal and I will go into that next blog. Over Christmas we are to be thankful for all those things around us and …

Blog 505: We are divided

In this world it seems we are divided on so many things, can you think of any that you struggle with? Race? Wealth? Housing? Religion? Job? Ethnicity? There are so many that I am able to think of and we are all naturally divided from each other. We are all divided the moment we are …

Blog 504: We cause pain

Did you know that you cause pain on an everyday basis? The way you speak and the way you act can cause the smallest amount of pain to the people around you. We don't ever know what someone is going through and we don't know how there day is panning out so saying, doing something …

Blog 503: Setting you free

Who would you call on if you were stuck in a locked box with no key? Would you call a close friend who would ultimately laugh at you or would you call an acquaintance who is good with tools and would help you get out? There you have a dilemma. Would you call someone you …

Blog 502: God wants us to have good

I don't know about you but we are all gearing up for Christmas and everything to do with Christmas. It is just 13 days away but it seems to be creeping up on us at a quick speed! As an aunt, daughter, sister and granddaughter I spend a lot of time wondering what gift to …

Blog 501: Be patient

Are you a person who is impatient or can you be patient with everything? Some people are really good at being patient and other people really struggle with it. I have to say that I am the latter, I hate having to wait around for things and I hate knowing something is happening but have …

Blog 500: Nesting

I don't know about you but when I am in the mood I love sorting everything out, I love sorting out cupboards, I love tidying things up and I love when things are all organised. I love throwing things out that I don't need, I love getting rid of stuff and having a more simple …

Blog 499: Easily Judged

We often walk down the street and do a quick judgement of every person and we don't even realise that we are doing that. We often do a quick judgement and don't notice it in our minds and sometimes we don't even care about it. Now days so many people live their lives online and …

Blog 498: My little pill

Do you remember the trend when people would post their pills online and they would show the world that taking a pill for anything especially their mental should not be a taboo subject. Mental health in itself should not be a taboo subject and taking a pill for it should also not be a taboo …

Blog 497: Start to the day

I don't know about you but I am not a morning person, I am not a person who likes to get up early and my husband says it is like waking the sleeping dragon! I am not great at waking up let alone waking up in the morning, if I schedule a meeting or a …

Blog 496: Pray, pray, pray

No matter what we go through, no matter who our families are, no matter who we are friends with, no matter where we work, no matter where we go, no matter what we do, no matter what we go through in life the best thing to do is to pray, pray a bit more and …

Blog 495: Remembrance Day

On this remembrance day we remember those lives who were given and who were taken away. We remember those brave men and women who gave their lives for us. We remember those families whose lives have been changed. We remember those hearts who have been broken. We remember those children who have never been able …

Blog 494: OMG

As a society we love shortening any word whether its through texts, social media and I have even known it to be on email! Here are all the ones that I have heard recently and I would like to know whether you have heard any of these? OMG (oh my god, oh my gosh), TBH …

Blog 493: Totally alone

How many of us sit at home most of the day and go without speaking to another person? I know that there are so many people who go days and months without speaking to another soul and it can be so lonely and it can be so hard. We think we are close to people …

Blog 492: Trick or Treat

Do you do Halloween? Do you do trick or treating? So many people in this world take part in trick or treating and it has become part of every year and part of every October. Each year most people across the world dress up and go trick or treating, the go to houses that they …

Blog 491: All God’s Plan

No matter what we go through as always make a plan whether that be getting ready for the next day, the next week, the next month or even the next year. We are always making plans and I love making plans for certain things. I know that plans can change and we can be disappointed …

Blog 490: You don’t have to be ok

There are so many things that we don't have to be okay about. I remember when I moved into our flat that we are in now I was so thrilled and so happy that we could finally have a flat that we could call our own. We had a two week overlap between our old …

Blog 489: Be careful what you say

'Oh my goodness I am so sorry,' 'How do you cope with that?' 'Is life that hard?' 'I really didn't know.' 'Wow what a story you have.' 'Why didn't you tell anyone?' How many times have these been said to us? We have often thought them about other people but we may not have said …

Blog 488: Take time for yourself

Did you know that it is good to take time for yourself, it is good to have time just you and your thoughts, it is good to have time with you and a book, it is good to have time just you being on your own. This can be hard to fit into a very …

Blog 487: Faith can be hard

Do you every find that you put you faith in something just for it to be pulled from under your feet? The other day I was reading my diary from like 10 years ago and wow did I write a lot and I had a load of emotion. It was a time when I didn't …

Blog 486: Mental Health Day

Did you know that today is mental health day and it is a hard day. There are so many people in this world that have mental health issues. I say issues but they are not issues and they are not problems, they are not something that we should take lightly and mental health is not …

Blog 485: World Teachers Day

'I swear I will never marry a teacher.' 'I don't want to marry a teacher.' Looking back now I can't believe I said those words and have now been married to a teacher for the last three and a bit years! When I was younger I watched my mum work super being a teacher and …

Blog 484: What not to say

There are so many people that we see each day and there are so many things that we have to and things that we should not say. I know that there are many subjects that should be questioned about what we should and shouldn't say and it can be from abortion to fertility to death …

Blog 483: Get to know me (via my hubby!)

I know that there have been so many followers on this blog and so I though what better way to get to know me than through quick questions and answers from my husband! What is something I say a lot? I'm tired What makes me happy? hugs How tall am I? 5ft 1 1/2 inches …

Blog 482: I am scarred

At some point in our lives we have all be scarred. We have fallen over and got a scare on our knee, we have served for our country and have been mentally scarred, we have been burnt and have scars, we have had a bad experience in life that has scarred us, we have had …

Blog 481: International day of peace

I don't know about you but I strive for peace, I strive for everyone to be happy with each other, I strive for all the wars to stop and it is hard. I strive for people to live together with no judgement. I strive for all the wars to stop but I know that we …

Blog 480: My fur baby

Have you ever had a pet? How old were you? Did you ever feel like it was your baby? How did you feel when it passed away? What was its name? What did it look like? How long did you have it for? Why did you get it? When did you get it? I loved …

Blog 479: A long Day

Do you ever have those nights when you can't sleep? When you toss and turn? When you have loads of thoughts going around your head? When you remembered you should have done something? Forgot to send that email? When your too hot/too cold? We all have or will have them- if you haven't you are …

Blog 478: Follow your dreams

When we are younger we have so many dreams and so many ambitions but how many do we actually follow through? I know that there will be times when we have to drop our dreams to follow other ones. I remember when I was a child I really wanted to be a teacher but that …

Blog 477: Keep an eye out

On the 10th September it is world suicide prevention day and I have to say that this is an important day to look out for everyone else and to make sure that those people around us are looked after and to make sure that we keep an eye out. There are so many reasons why …

Blog 476: Whats your ID?

There are so many ways that we can identify ourselves and have a relationship with other people from who our parents are, who our siblings are, where we work, what passport we have and so much more. There are so many things that can identify us and there are so many ways that we know …

Blog 475: Leave it

Do you ever have times in your life when you just need to hold your tongue? Are there times in your life when you want to speak but you just have to leave it. Over my short period of time there have been so many times when that be at home, whether that be with …

Blog 474: Nobody loves me

Have you heard of the song, 'No body loves me everybody hates me...' I used to sing this a lot when I was a little girl and even now I don't know why because I know I was loved but for some reason it never felt deep and I never really felt it. I was …

Blog 473: Don’t forget to say thanks

How many times a day are you thankful for the things around you? How many times a day are you thankful for the family around you? How many times a day are you thankful for the friends around you? Are you thankful for the food you have on your plate, for the job you have, …

Blog 472: Blessings

'Count your blessings and name them one by one and see what the Lord has done.' Do you think of your blessings each and everyday? Do you think of all the people and things around you that you have been blessed with and have been able to do with your life? Do you look forward …

Blog 471: How to love

Do you find it hard to love other people? Do you judge people because of their circumstances? Do you find it easy to love people when they are going through a hard time? There will be times in life when we find it easier to love other people and there will be other times when …

Blog 470: Just say yes to Jesus

We all love a good deal, we all love the discounts that we see in stores, we all love getting a good deal and it seems to be important for us. There are so many deals that we can get over the year but we all want to have the best and if we get …

Blog 469: Ignore meanness

Over the years we will have people being horrible to us, we will have people who reject us, people who don't understand us. We will have people that are mean to us and we will struggle with life and it can be hard. We will all have times when we struggle to come with the …

Blog 468: Just trust God

I know throughout this world there are so many people that we can trust and so many people that we need to trust. There are some times that we need to trust other people more than ourselves and everyday we need to trust more and more things. Sometimes the only thing that we can do …

Blog 467: How to be a friend

If you were to ask your friend would they say that you are a good friend? There are so many times that we could be better friends. When I was younger I used to have sleep over with my friends, we used to go out cycling, walking and sometimes just play in the garden. Most …

Blog 466: Weeping

Over the years I have known so many people who have died, I have known so many people that have lost loved ones and I have known those people who have wept over so many different things. It is hard to see people cry and even harder if you are close to the person. We …

Blog 465: Remember this

We all go through ups and downs of life, we all have times when we feel that we are unable to cope, we all have times when things get hard but how we cope with them is important. There are some days when we are excited about what the future will hold, when a new …

Blog 464: Things to pray for

We are already over half way through 2023 and I wonder whether you are still up to date with your new years resolutions? I know I am not! I tend not to make any because I am lucky if they last a week let alone a year! I wonder what things have happened in your …

Blog 463: How to mourn

When someone you love dies how do you mourn? How do you grieve their death? There is no right way to grieve and no wrong way to grieve either. I remember when someone very close to be passed away and I honestly did not know how to grieve. I did not know what it was …

Blog 462: The promise

How many times have you promised something and then broke it? How many times have you forgotten about a promise? How many times have you made an empty promise? We all know what a promise is and we have all made promises in our life that we have not kept and we made empty ones. …

Blog 461: Don’t be greedy

It is very easy for us to want things, it is very easy for us to be greedy and want things that we are unable to have. We have all read about the Mr Men and there was a Mr Greedy. He was very greedy, he ate at lot of food, he wanted the best …

Blog 460: We have a job

Did you know you have an important job to do? You have an important job whether you are a teacher or a lunchtime help, you have an important job whether you work in the government or are a street cleaner, you have an important job whether you stay at home or go to work, you …

Blog 459: Belonging

Do you ever feel that you do not belong somewhere? Do you feel that you are the black sheep of the situation? Do you ever feel uncomfortable in a certain situation? Do you feel that you just don't belong? Belonging is such a strange thing and if we don't feel that we belong in a …

Blog 458: Grumpy or Grateful?

Do you ever find that you are just grumpy for now reason? You don't know the reason why or the cause but you are just grumpy? Sometimes I get out of bed in the morning and I am just grumpy, it could be the mixture of hormones, a messy flat, not feeling 100% myself and …

Blog 457: Day of Friendship

Did you know tomorrow is the day of friendship? I don't know why it is tomorrow and not everyday but I love my friends. I have very very few friends but I am so thankful for those that I do have in my life. I know that I am able to go to them with …

Blog 456: Let Go

You may remember a couple of years back the only song that seemed to be playing anywhere was 'let it go' from the movie 'Frozen.' As much as it was a Disney film there is still some truth in it. We need to let go and we need to let go now. We need to …

Blog 455: Best Medicine

How often have you had to take medicine? I bet none of you have never had medicine-it is almost a staple of everyone and their childhood. Some people have to take more medicine than others. I know some people that have to take medicine otherwise they suffer and they may not even survive. A lot …

Blog 454: Why Sunday special?

I don't know about you but I find Sunday different from all the other days of the week. I somehow find it more relaxing, more calm and used well it can make me ready for the week ahead. Sometimes I do dread Sunday because I have to get up earlier than a Saturday because we …

Blog 453: To my daddy

Three days time is Fathers Day I want to dedicate this blog to my wonderful father, my pop pop as well as my father-in-law. I am so blessed that I am able to celebrate this day not only with my father but also my Father-in-law because I know so many people find this period hard. …

Blog 452: Head above water

Have you ever felt like you have been drowning? Have you ever felt like life is on top of you and you just don't know where to turn? Do you feel that life can be hard and you just feel like giving up? Throughout our life we have survived things that we did not think …

Blog 451: Hands, Face, Space

A couple of years back we had the Covid-19 virus pandemic and we all needed to learn about washing our hands for the time it took us to sing 'happy birthday.' keep our face masks on when we were out and about to save spreading germs to people we came in contact with and then …

Blog 450: Quick Quick

Do you ever feel that life keeps going? Do you feel like you don't have a second to yourself? Do you feel that you don't have a break? Do you feel that you are always on the go? Life can be very busy and there is sometimes times when you don't have a break and …

Blog 449: Why do I share?

There are a lot of people that don't understand why I blog and my life and I understand that. I always wondered why people blog but now I do it myself I understand why, it is a way of release and it is a good way to write about topics that are of interest to …

Blog 448: Quick Quiz

I have been blogging for a few years now and a lot of my followers are new and so I wanted you to know more about me, my answers are underlined and my husbands are in bold. I would be interested to see what your answers would be, please do comment and share! Delivery or …

Blog 447: People far away

Don't you miss those people who live far away? Do you have friends that live far away? Does it take you ages to find a date that you can both make? We all have friends that live a while away and some people live in other countries and that is hard! I have friends that …

Blog 446: Take time

We all have to learn to manage our time at some point in our lives. As we get older we have more things that take time in our lives and we need to know what is important and what can wait. When we are younger it is all about getting our homework on time but …

Blog 445: Peter Pan

Wouldn't you just love it if you didn't have to grow up and could be a child forever? How fun would that be? No work and all play! We have all watched Peter Pan and saw how fun it would be to stay children and have fun. When I was younger I loved using my …

Blog 444: Two is better than one

Do you ever find that a problem shared is a problem cared? If you need to stay up at night it is better to be with someone else? Having a road trip is better with another person. It is good to have a sibling than to be alone and it is the same with marriage. …