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We Love a snack plate lunch/dinner 😋 Especially in this weather and a long day at Nursery for Lj 🥰
08/07/2026

We Love a snack plate lunch/dinner 😋 Especially in this weather and a long day at Nursery for Lj 🥰

08/07/2026

Apologies for not being on this page for a few months, we've had so much going on 🤦‍♀️😴 I will make sure to post more often now that things are calming down.
This morning whilst Lj is at Nursery, I've been batch cooking to fill our freezer with healthy meals.... Chicken and vegetable curry, Lj's sweet potato and salmon fishcakes and Bolognese sauce all done 😋

You ask a to step in when everything falls apart.Not halfway.Not temporarily.Completely.You ask them to open their hom...
11/04/2026

You ask a to step in when everything falls apart.

Not halfway.
Not temporarily.
Completely.

You ask them to open their home to a child they already love—
a grandchild, a niece, a nephew—
and become everything that child suddenly needs.

You ask them to pick up the pieces of trauma they didn’t cause.
To steady a life that’s been shaken.
To answer the questions no one else can answer.

To learn new systems.
To navigate courtrooms, social workers, schools, and services.
To sit through the meltdowns.
To hold them through the nightmares.
To show up, every single day, no matter how hard it gets.

You ask them to carry what that child cannot carry alone.

And they do.

They do it with love that is already there—
but stretched, tested, and reshaped in ways no one prepares them for.

But when it’s time to make decisions about that child’s life…
suddenly their voice doesn’t matter.

They become “just family.”
Or worse—“informal carers.”

Their concerns are brushed off as emotional.
Their insight is seen as biased.
Their lived, daily reality is treated as less valuable than reports written by people who visit occasionally and leave.

That is backwards.

You cannot ask someone to raise a child in crisis
and then silence them when it matters most.

You cannot ask them to hold that child together
and then ignore what they are seeing with their own eyes, every single day.

That is not just frustrating.
It is harmful.

Because these are not just children in a system.

They are our family.

They are the children we have rocked to sleep before all of this.
The ones whose histories we know, whose patterns we recognise,
whose pain we feel in a way that cannot be written in a report.

They need safety.
They need consistency.
They need to stay connected to who they are.

And the people who know them best—
who have known them the longest—
are too often the ones pushed aside.

Kinship carers are not a convenience.
They are not a temporary fix.
They are not background characters in a process.

They are the bridge between past and future.
They are the thread of identity.
They are the stability in the middle of upheaval.

If we truly care about what is best for these children,
then we have to stop minimizing the voices of the people raising them
and start listening to those who are living it, every day.

Because children don’t need decisions made at a distance.

They need their reality to be understood—
by the people who hold the power to shape their lives.

Crazy busy day... smoked mackerel salad with roasted sweet potatoes for us instead of Pizza friday this week 🐟
27/03/2026

Crazy busy day... smoked mackerel salad with roasted sweet potatoes for us instead of Pizza friday this week 🐟

The sun is out ☀️ and my salads are back! This is one of my favourites and so easy to make a big batch to have some for ...
19/03/2026

The sun is out ☀️ and my salads are back! This is one of my favourites and so easy to make a big batch to have some for lunch tomorrow too 🥗

Garlic steak bites with sweet potato and broccoli for Lj, with salad for me 😋
18/03/2026

Garlic steak bites with sweet potato and broccoli for Lj, with salad for me 😋

Happy Mothers day!! Also to all the out there ❤️
15/03/2026

Happy Mothers day!!
Also to all the out there ❤️

I've started buying Lj one outfit per week ready for summer ☀️ This way means I don't need to stress about getting her a...
14/03/2026

I've started buying Lj one outfit per week ready for summer ☀️ This way means I don't need to stress about getting her a whole new wardrobe each season. I'll be doing the same for autumn and winter too.

Friday is Pizza Night for us 🍕 So whilst Lj is at nursery I've made the veggie packed pizza sauce ready for later. We d...
13/03/2026

Friday is Pizza Night for us 🍕 So whilst Lj is at nursery I've made the veggie packed pizza sauce ready for later. We do lots of different bases like sweet potato, broccoli and cauliflower, normal dough and wrap bases 😋 Lj enjoys them all 🥰🍕

Last Kinship event of the week for Lj has had a great week 🥰
12/03/2026

Last Kinship event of the week for
Lj has had a great week 🥰

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