Fifteen Years
Fifteen Years: An email conversation. A first date. Many more dates beside. A year abroad. A long distance relationship. A graduation. A job, and another job too. A tiny house, all ours. Another new job. Read More …
Category: Married Life and All Things Spliced
Lessons Learnt from Renovating a House
Four and a bit years ago, a long time before Baby Lighty came along, the Lightys decided to buy a family home. Casa de Lighty. A family home which we fell in love with, right from Read More …
DIY… or DI Don’t!
I’m sure that you may be wondering what this little departure from my normal baby related posts is all about. A post about DIY, tools and home renovations isn’t my normal thing! But it has Read More …
The Fakeiversary
Anniversaries are a funny thing in the Lighty household. I would say that, on the whole, Mr and Mrs Lighty are both fairly nostalgic creatures, yet we have differing opinions when it comes to a Read More …
Daddy Daycare
In the almost-a-year that Baby Lighty has been here, there’s only been a handful of times when he’s been looked after by anyone other than myself or our lovely childminder, including Mr Lighty. When Mr Read More …
Why I’m So Pleased not to be in New York Five Lighty Years On
Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans, the late great John Lennon once said. It’s always been one of Mrs Lighty’s favourite sayings (and the fact that I heard it first uttered Read More …