Pick Me Up! Special

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Splashing around in the water, I could tell that someone was having fun.

For my adventurous, headstrong little girl Isabella, two, really loved her swimming lessons – something that was a part of our normal routine.

Which quickly led us to another thing that me, Isabella, my eldest Louis, four, and hubby Kyle, now 36, would all do often – pop over to my mum’s house in Sydenham, Oxfordshire, of an afternoon.

Roughly a 30-minute drive away from home, my mum Sue and dad Ashley, had a really big garden, perfect for the kids to run around in as well as the stables to say hello to the horses.

Which was something that me, Isabella and Louis did on the 8 May earlier on this year – with Kyle staying at home.

Isabella wasn’t hiding from us

Venturing up to the stables, mucking out the horses and then having a bite to eat at Mum’s house, come 5pm, I decided it was time to head home.

So rallying up the kids, while talking

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