LIFE CHEZ DEE

... writing my thoughts on life and all it throws at me

Life Chez Dee Episode #117: Father's Day

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Life Chez Dee Episode #116: Lost

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Life Chez Dee Episode #115: Patron of our Nation

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Life Chez Dee Episode #114: Happy Birthday Ma'am

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Life Chez Dee Episode #113: #15forEdward

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Life Chez Dee Episode #112: Bread and Wine

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Life Chez Dee Episode #111: Some notable happenings of late

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Life Chez Dee Episode #110: Fellowshipping

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Life Chez Dee Episode #109: More Exploration of Prayer

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Life Chez Dee Episode #108: This Mum's Day

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Life Chez Dee Episode #107: Exploring Prayer

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Life Chez Dee Episode #106: Be inspired; be inspiring

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Life Chez Dee Episode #105: Exploring Scripture

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Life Chez Dee Episode #104: What not to say

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Life Chez Dee Episode #103: Exploring Fasting

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Life Chez Dee Episode #102: Hunger and Thirst for God

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Life Chez Dee Episode #101: All you need is love

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Life Chez Dee Episode #100: My dental chronicles

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Life Chez Dee Episode #99: Social Media friend or foe?

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Life Chez Dee Episode #98: Lent and Me

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Life Chez Dee Episode #97: My grief

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Life Chez Dee Episode #96: Childloss and Grief

Life Chez Dee Episode #95: Edward's Place

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Life Chez Dee Episode #94: Love yourself

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Life Chez Dee Episode #117: Father's Day

elizabethdee001

19 hours ago
4 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #117: Father's Day

So today is Father’s Day. Always a day which we celebrate or should I say acknowledge in our house, yes we do presents and cards and such, but it really is also just an ordinary day. As I’m up and about this morning, being busy, doing some meal prep for this evening, having a brew, my thoughts begin to wander … as they do. I think about Justin, and just what a great father and husband he is, and how much he does with the boys, and for me. I think about Edward, and how Justin

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elizabethdee001

May 28
9 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #116: Lost

I lost my voice recently. Not physically, but it could just as easily have been. There was so much I was thinking about, experiencing, processing that I needed to write about, but for one reason or another, I felt unable to put those thoughts, feelings and emotions into my writing, or at least writing I was able to publish. I was totally lost. I know I don’t usually hold back; I’m more than aware that my writing is raw and from the heart, but I knew that the raw emotions I wa

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Life Chez Dee Episode #110: Fellowshipping

elizabethdee001

Mar 23
6 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #110: Fellowshipping

Tonight was the penultimate session in the Lent course, and this evening we were exploring fellowship, and I thought about how nice it was to be fellowshipping again this evening with our usual little group of people. I often glance through the course notes prior to the sessions beginning, and this evening’s notes began with “it takes a village to raise a child”, and went on to talk of the importance of supportive relationships to healthy personal development. This is also tr

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Life Chez Dee Episode #109: More Exploration of Prayer

elizabethdee001

Mar 16
5 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #109: More Exploration of Prayer

In advance of the Lent course this evening I glance through the session notes. Meeting God is the starting point and ultimate goal of true prayer. Asking God to make a difference in our lives and in our world. May your will be done on Earth as in Heaven. After much shenanigans getting into the zoom call, being heard, and trying to work out how to get a picture of the cat off my background, I managed to slip into the meeting. Discussions were already happening as to which city

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Life Chez Dee Episode #108: This Mum's Day

elizabethdee001

Mar 14
6 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #108: This Mum's Day

Today is Mother’s Day. Normally I’m awakened by the boys coming into our bedroom to wake me and wish me a Happy Mother’s Day. Today I woke early, particularly early in fact, and not feeling able to nod off again, I just got up. I do actually quite like it when it’s quiet downstairs, and whilst the boys were still snoozing I got on with all sorts of chores … feeding the cats, letting them out, cleaning the litter, putting a washer load on, emptying the dryer and folding the cl

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Life Chez Dee Episode #106: Be inspired; be inspiring

elizabethdee001

Mar 9
4 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #106: Be inspired; be inspiring

International Women's Day has come round again. Every year I think of so many women who inspire me, and this year is no different. I wrote this piece a couple of years ago, still as relevant today as it was then so I thought I'd republish it. It was International Women’s Day this week. My social media newsfeed was full of inspirational quotes; of stories of inspirational women, strong women, women paving the way and inspiring generations of women. I was privileged to be inv

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Life Chez Dee Episode #105: Exploring Scripture

elizabethdee001

Mar 2
5 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #105: Exploring Scripture

The title of this week’s Lent Course was Exploring Scripture. We can read the Bible, but we need to do more than read, we need to hear God. We were a bit thin on the ground this evening, with a few engaged in another church meeting, and I missed them. We began this evening talking about which sport we enjoy playing or watching. I’m not really a lover of doing or watching sport if I’m honest. I used to be obsessed with going to the gym before I had the boys, I’d be there 6 or

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Life Chez Dee Episode #104: What not to say

elizabethdee001

Feb 28
6 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #104: What not to say

This probably isn’t the best time for me to be writing this piece. I’m angry. I’ve totally had it with people who say the most offensive things to me. It happens so often, far too often quite frankly. I’d actually just been talking with friends about some of the horrid remarks which have been said to me these last few years, and I don’t know if this conversation tempted fate, but later the same afternoon … wham! Another one was hurled at me, quite consciously and quite pointe

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Life Chez Dee Episode #101: All you need is love

elizabethdee001

Feb 14
5 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #101: All you need is love

It’s Sunday 14th February. Valentine’s Day. Today is all about love. The shops are full of cards, flowers, chocolates and much more, and don’t get me wrong I love all that, and both myself and Justin have always celebrated this day. To be honest, it isn’t just because it is Valentine’s Day, but it is indeed another excuse to go and buy gifts for each other and write down another declaration of love cards for each other. Justin has always been the romantic, and I don’t think a

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Life Chez Dee Episode #99: Social Media friend or foe?

elizabethdee001

Feb 5
6 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #99: Social Media friend or foe?

I’ve listened on many occasions to the positives and negatives of social media, and indeed the time spent on it. So just how much is too much? And at what point does it become an addiction? For years I was sceptical about using social media. Ridiculously unnecessary I thought. Who wants to look at what others are eating for their tea etc etc. I eventually decided to take the plunge in about 2013. I felt as though I was missing out on knowing what was going on with stuff gener

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elizabethdee001

Jan 20
6 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #97: My grief

I have read, read, read and read so many pieces, articles, writings, thoughts and experiences of others’ grief. Those who are grieving parents, grandparents, distant relatives, friends, siblings, children, babies (those who were born and lived a short while, those born sleeping, or those lost before they reached term). I’ve probably focussed more on reading about those who have experience of child loss, since my experience of this has been far more overwhelming and debilitati

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Life Chez Dee Episode #96: Childloss and Grief

elizabethdee001

Jan 20
7 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #96: Childloss and Grief

Losing a child is different to any other loss. My child died, and on every possible imaginable level, that is wrong. The death of a child is not something anyone is prepared for or should ever happen. As a mother, the instinct to protect your child is always there. Not being able to protect your child; or save your child from dying goes against everything that motherhood stands for. This is not the natural order of things, and goes against the normal cycle of life. Watching

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Life Chez Dee Episode #95: Edward's Place

elizabethdee001

Jan 20
5 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #95: Edward's Place

I wanted to talk about Edward's place; Edward’s grave. This might seem like a strange subject to talk about, but as this is going round in my mind, and I’m in the habit now of offloading all that stuff, then this is something I need to talk about and share. Edward is buried; I couldn’t bring myself to have Edward cremated. I watched him die. I visited him daily for the two weeks until we buried him. He was beautiful. For me, it felt like I needed to have that vision in my h

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Life Chez Dee Episode #94: Love yourself

elizabethdee001

Jan 20
4 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #94: Love yourself

Its funny how over analysis comes into play when something significant happens to you. It makes you think, and question, and ask, and challenge. You learn what things really matter; what your priorities are; you look at things from a different perspective. Losing my child was devastating; it turned my world upside down. It has made me overthink and overanalyse, it has made me oversensitive and vulnerable. But this over analysis doesn’t stop at situations, the company you keep

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elizabethdee001

Jan 20
4 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #93: How are you?

How are you? A very simple question. One which is asked all the time; but one which is so difficult to answer at times. One which was almost unbearable to hear, and so unbelievably hard to answer in the days and weeks after losing Edward. It’s a question I hadn’t analysed too much until I was in a position where I felt unable to answer. How are you? It’s said so often, by so many. Just in passing … in the street, in the shops. It’s the question you want people to ask; whilst

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Life Chez Dee Episode #91: Love Doesn't Hurt

elizabethdee001

Jan 20
3 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #91: Love Doesn't Hurt

So this week has been all about love. How do I feel? I don’t know how to articulate a quick and straightforward answer to that. I wake up on Valentines Day and the first person I think about is Edward. Edward is the first person I think about every day in fact. Edward is ALWAYS in my head the minute I wake, and ALWAYS in my head as I drift off to sleep. My love for Edward is forever. My love for all my children is forever. My love for my children is shown in hugs, kisses and

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Life Chez Dee Episode #84: Songs of Yesteryears

elizabethdee001

Jan 18
7 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #84: Songs of Yesteryears

Today we lost a national treasure, the forces sweetheart, a symbol of hope, and a very much loved lady. We have been reminded so recently of all the wartime songs which she and so many others sang, whilst the nation celebrated the 75th anniversary of VE Day, and I’m glad that she lived to witness our country marking this day. The nation’s sweetheart lived a remarkable 103 years and her long life will be remembered for a long time; iconic, timeless, unforgettable. I write on s

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elizabethdee001

Jan 1
5 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #79: Goodbye 2020

1st January 2021 … a new year … new beginning … time to start anew. After my first lie in of the new year, I awoke to find the upstairs landing full of William’s duvet, pillows, sheets etc etc. What on Earth happened in the night? Well, one of the cats had the shits it seems, all over William’s bed, which he didn’t discover till he eventually decided to make his way to bed in the early hours. What a great surprise that was for him. What a way to bring the new year in. I disco

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Life Chez Dee Episode #77: Ways and means through advent

elizabethdee001

Dec 15, 2020
7 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #77: Ways and means through advent

And so tonight was the fifth and final session in the advent series of discussions I’ve been a part of, with tonight’s topic being on “Ways and Means”. Tonight we thought about the innkeeper, who offers hospitality to Mary and Joseph, and we think about how much we ourselves want to offer hospitality and have purpose. We think about then, how the innkeeper must have felt about having no rooms available to offer, but wanting to help and offering what he could; and today how we

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elizabethdee001

Dec 5, 2020
7 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #75: 5th December

I awoke this morning earlier than usual, probably nudged by Edward, who even though is always on my mind, was even more so today … if that was even possible. 5th December 2016 – only four years ago; feeling so long ago, and yet only like yesterday; each and every detail remembered. Vivid thoughts, memories and feelings wash over me, flood me, drown me. Without much warning, I could feel the tears in my eyes welling up and starting to pour down my face and onto my pillow as I

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