We have finally reached the last day of 2020, and what a year it has been! I don’t think any of us had any idea back in January what kind of year it would be; a global pandemic wasn’t something that any of could have predicted!

The boys went back to school today, September is upon us and hopefully we are heading back to something close to normal. But before we head into Autumn proper it’s time for me to share a little bit about what we got up in August along with some new family photos.

It doesn’t seem like it was very long ago that I was writing our last Me & Mine post at the end of June. As I mentioned then, Gabe went back to school for three weeks from the beginning of July, before finishing for the summer holidays on the 17th. After the long months we’ve spent in lock down since March, July has felt like the most ‘normal’ month we’ve had for a long time.

I am back with another Me & Mine post although in this lock down life we’re living we haven’t really been up to much this month! Despite the rules easing a bit over the last month we haven’t really done anything differently – well not until this last week when Gabe went back to school, more on that in a minute though!

I’m finally back with a Me & Mine post! I knew I hadn’t written one for a while but when I looked back it turns out I haven’t done one since January! I just didn’t get round to taking any family pictures in February and then lock down came at the end of March and until the last few days we haven’t been anywhere at all.

Well, I didn’t quite manage to publish a Me & Mine post at the end of January but I’m here now, and two days late isn’t too bad! We didn’t have any big family adventures this last month. It’s mostly been about school, work, swimming lessons and a few birthday parties for the boys.

OK, so I know it’s actually the 2nd of January but publishing these Me & Mine posts at least a few days into the new month (or not at all last month) seems to have become a bit of a habit this year.

I know we’re nearly a week into November now but I wanted to share these family pictures from October, especially since we managed to get two this month! They were both taken when we went to the Lake District at half term.

I can’t believe I’m writing this post already – September seems to have disappeared in a flash! It only seems like a week ago that the boys were going back to school and now it’s less than three weeks to half term!

August was a month of two halves for us – two weeks at home and then almost two weeks on holiday in France. I did my best to keep the boys occupied in the first half of the month with various activities but if I’m honest we were all just counting down until it was time to go away.