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Behind the Squares

Posted on May 18, 2018May 21, 2018by Emma Gibb

It’s a funny thing, social media.  I work in social media and I love Instagram in particular – I love the community of mums and the inspiration I get on a daily basis (everything from clothes and books to mindfulness prompts to places to visit).  I also love playing around with photography and words, and […]

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Now She’s One

Posted on April 27, 2016April 27, 2016by Emma Gibb

A year now. Days that have passed in a blink; like the pages of a book left open in the wind.   I cling to the here-and-now, before it’s another do-you-remember-when. Now she is one and he is three. The nights are long but I know this time is brief and oh-so-precious, and I try, in the […]

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Your Great-Grandfather

Posted on May 20, 2014March 20, 2016by Emma Gibb

Yesterday, when you were playing at my feet and happily babbling your constant stream of sounds and half-formed words,  I found out that your great-grandfather had died.  He was 86.  Even though you shared this world for the first year and a half of your life, he didn’t know you.  He had an illness that […]

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Your Working Mama

Posted on May 13, 2014March 21, 2016by Emma Gibb

What you know about me at a year and a half:  I am mama, I like cuddles, I love books, I love nothing more than to cuddle and read books with you.  You know my smile, my laughter, my smell, the rings on my fingers, the lines etched beside my eyes, my not-so-in-tune singing.  You know […]

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Friends

Posted on March 12, 2014March 20, 2016by Emma Gibb

We greet each other with a grin (hello), shuffle closer (how are you?) and embrace (so nice to see your face again). ‘ooo’. ‘meh’. ‘mmm’. We build sounds together in a tower – stack them up, click them any way that fits, then rearrange again. String them together and pull them along, take them apart […]

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The Move

Posted on February 28, 2014March 20, 2016by Emma Gibb

Recently your world has changed – tipped upside down, then rearranged. Same room but not. Same cot but different ceiling overhead. Same things but in a different space. Confused, you stared – where is this place?   The house we left was our first home. You’ll have no memories of the farm next door, the […]

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Resolutions

Posted on January 6, 2014March 21, 2016by Emma Gibb

I usually don’t make new year’s resolutions but as the shiny new year nudged out the old, I vowed to make some changes, and inspired by Tara at Sticky Fingers and her New Year’s Promise, I have decided to write them here.  I think mainly because when I’m having ‘one of those days’ these words will […]

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Turning one

Posted on November 18, 2013March 21, 2016by Emma Gibb

It has been almost two months since I wrote anything here and as time has cantered by, you have waddled out of your first year and into toddler-hood.  You have been walking since the end of September but only last week decided it was time to let go of our fingers and the couch, and […]

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Change is in the air

Posted on September 17, 2013March 11, 2020by Emma Gibb

You are 11 months old today.  It seems unreal to me, as if the days have suddenly been picked up and carried away on the wind.  It’s that time of year when change is hanging in the air; when 5.45am feels so much earlier than it did a few months ago, when the temperature drops, […]

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The world at 10 months

Posted on August 17, 2013March 21, 2016by Emma Gibb

Your world at ten months old… Not crawling yet, nor walking, but always on the move somehow. Climbing, clambering, over knees, pulling up onto feet desperate to be standing now. Reluctantly try rocking onto forearms from seated pose and oh so close! but not yet there. (It won’t be long). Days filled with play and […]

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I’m Emma, a mum of two based in Aberdeenshire close to the Angus border. On my blog you’ll find posts about family-friendly things to do and see in our local area as well as suggestions for trips around Scotland, craft ideas and poems about motherhood.

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I think I need to buy a lottery ticket... after my I think I need to buy a lottery ticket... after my daughter found her four leaf clover last week we had a look today in the same patch and found another four leaf clover, and then a six leaf clover 😮
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How many barley field photos is too many?! 🌾 . How many barley field photos is too many?! 🌾
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We’ve just moved house and taking this as a good We’ve just moved house and taking this as a good sign🍀
(Apparently it’s a 1 in 10,000 chance of finding one!)
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💚 . . #naturelovers #freespiritedchildhood #mys 💚
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In the chaos and stress and worry and questions - In the chaos and stress and worry and questions - they are the beauty, the laughter, the focus, the answer.
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Much needed vitamin sea 🐚 . . . #vitaminsea #se Much needed vitamin sea 🐚
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Fields of barley 💚 . . . #explorerkids #runwil Fields of barley 💚
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Inspired by @myriadnaturaltoys to press flowers in Inspired by @myriadnaturaltoys to press flowers into air drying clay and then paint them with my 5 year old. I also recently saw the idea to make decorations with air drying clay and pressed flowers on @homeschool_daily_apple so that’s next on the list 🌿
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Let’s go fly a homemade kite made from a shoppin Let’s go fly a homemade kite made from a shopping bag, garden canes and tape that doesn’t actually fly very well! (Doesn’t have the same ring to it 🤔)
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A windy woodland squirrel spotting walk 🌿 . . . A windy woodland squirrel spotting walk 🌿
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A walk in the yellow field yesterday evening (swip A walk in the yellow field yesterday evening (swipe for one two years ago, they’ve grown so much!). The rapeseed field photos we take each year are some of my favourites 💛
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Today’s joy in simple things was coffee in the s Today’s joy in simple things was coffee in the sunshine, an evening walk to pick tulips from the nearby pick your own flower field and taking some photos in the rapeseed field.
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Art projects that were started at the end of April Art projects that were started at the end of April are now finished- a cardboard tube dragon and a milk bottle Trex. These are both from Darrell Wakelam’s #artjumpstart projects that he’s been sharing on Twitter. We helped my son to make them both (both quite fiddly to create) and then he had lots of fun painting them. Some new wall art for his room
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Same walk, different perspective . . . #rapeseedfi Same walk, different perspective
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Its been over a year since I lasted showed my face Its been over a year since I lasted showed my face on here (fun fact, I was wearing the same dungarees, I promise I don’t live in them!). So I thought I’d say hello and tell you a bit about me. 👋🏻
• I’m Emma, I write a blog called This Mother and use the blog and this account to share our adventures outdoors, nature activities, crafts and {when we’re not in lockdown} recommendations on places to visit.
• I have two children {the little hands and silhouettes on my feed}. I still can’t quite believe my youngest will be starting school after the summer.
• I’ve learnt that I’m no good at cutting men’s hair. I also miss my fringe (but not attempting to cut it myself!).
• I love to write, particularly poetry. It is a dream of mine to write a children’s book.
• I haven’t been in a shop or driven for eight weeks now. I think it might take me a while to get used to life out of lockdown...
• I love gardening 🌱
• I really enjoy crafting and find it very therapeutic creating things ✂️
• I love hats. Last night I ordered a straw hat with a chin tie that *may* look like something Mary Poppins would wear. {Do you want to see it when it arrives?!}.
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