The Gallery – Books

This weeks theme for The Gallery is books.  Molly adores books, she will sit with her books for hours on end making up little stories to herself. She is a little book-worm in the making!

I used to love to read, I would read all the time but recently I have lost my passion for reading.  There is so much running around my head all of the time there doesn’t seem much room for books at the moment, I don’t sit still for long enough to read anything other than a bed time story to the kids!  I am sure there will come a time when I rediscover my love for books, but for now I will stick to reading The Hungry Caterpillar over and over day in day out.

Before I can actually do this tonight though I had better go and clear up the mound of books they have pulled out of the bookcase this evening whilst I was cooking tea!

The little monkeys!

 

The Gallery – Hands

This is my first time linking up to The Gallery.  I have wanted to a few times but have never actually got around to doing it! Until now.

This weeks theme is Hands.  As soon as I saw this I knew I had the perfect picture for it.

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This was taken on our wedding day in 2006.  I remember when we first got the pictures back, this one was one that my Grandma had asked for a copy of, I laughed because she wanted to put it in a frame and I wondered how anyone would even know it was me! They could be anyone’s hands!

Looking at it now, this is a beautiful photo and reminds me of our wedding day and what a wonderful day it was!

This was six years ago and so much has changed since then, it is very hard to remember it being just us.  I often wonder what we ever talked about before the kids came along.  It is so easy to get a bit lost with the parenting and the day-to-day chaos that comes with having children and it can be easy to forget that you are a couple as well and not just ‘Mummy and Daddy’.  The same couple that are in the picture above……