LIFE CHEZ DEE

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

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 #93: How are you?

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Life Chez Dee Episode #92: #thinkSepsis

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Life Chez Dee Episode #113: #15forEdward

elizabethdee001

Apr 15
10 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #113: #15forEdward

It’s April already, and with this comes the thoughts, the build up, the feeling which permeates every bit of my being, knowing that we’re in the days approaching Edward’s birthday. What I should be doing is hiding the presents I’ve bought him, finalising party arrangements, putting aside cards which arrive through the letterbox so that all these surprises are there waiting for him to excitedly open when he gets up in the morning. But that is far from reality now. I will get u

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Life Chez Dee Episode #112: Bread and Wine

elizabethdee001

Apr 2
5 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #112: Bread and Wine

This week was the final session of the Lent Course, in which we were exploring bread and wine. From the title of this piece you’d be forgiven for thinking this was going in a very different direction to what I’m actually writing about. Given that the sun has started warming the air for us, for thinking this piece was triggered by my tucking into some lovely crusty bread, a nice piece of ripe brie and a lovely glass of wine to wash it down. Alas no, this piece is not about thi

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

elizabethdee001

Mar 30
5 min

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

I needed to write something this week, if only to journal some of the notable happenings of late. Oliver has been back to school, and is now off school again for the Easter holidays. He was glad to go back to school, to see his friends again, even though he hasn’t really missed their company much, given they chat together daily whilst gaming. He’s had far too much gaming time quite honestly, but with not seeing his friends in person, this is where the playground banter has ta

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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 #102: Hunger and Thirst for God

elizabethdee001

Feb 16
5 min

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

So tonight saw the first session of the Lent course I signed up for. I’d received all the supporting documentation a couple of weeks ago, and had had a look through prior to this evening. If I’m honest, I wasn’t really looking forward to this course as much as the Advent course I’d attended. I’d really thrown myself into the Advent course, really listened, discussed, learned, absorbed, processed and reflected. It really gave me much food for thought, and inspired many pieces

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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 26
5 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #98: Lent and Me

So tonight I zoomed in for a remote catch up with those who I’d been on the Advent Course with. It’s a lovely group, and one I feel happy to belong to as we share our thoughts and personal experiences with each other. We have offered each other new and/or different perspectives, as well as empathy and understanding; I feel both humbled and privileged, as well as happy and content to be amongst such a group. The reason we had another catch up, was not only because it had been

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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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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 #63: Home Schooling

elizabethdee001

May 16, 2020
14 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #63: Home Schooling

For many, home schooling our children began at the end of March this year. Suddenly, our workspaces, and working hours needed to be split between what we needed to do, and giving our children the education they needed and deserved. Initially, it was thought that the time at home would only be two weeks, with a return after the Easter holidays, but it soon became apparent that the need for children to stay at home would be much longer. I know some parents used those initial we

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Life Chez Dee Episode #62: Officially Quinquagenarian

elizabethdee001

May 3, 2020
9 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #62: Officially Quinquagenarian

On Sunday 3rd May, it’s my birthday. It’s a milestone birthday; a big one; the day I turn 50; my half century; the big Five O. I used to think it sounded old … but now it’s my turn, and I’m not so sure. Fifty years ago I was born; 3rd May 1970, which also was a Sunday … a 70s child; and a child born on the Sabbath, which according to the rhyme, means I’m bonnie, blithe, good and gay. I have now lived 18,263 days and today sees me officially a quinquagenarian. God that sounds

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Life Chez Dee Episode #60: Easter, new life and Edward

elizabethdee001

Apr 13, 2020
6 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #60: Easter, new life and Edward

It's been a strange few weeks, and Easter is no exception. No build up to the school holidays as Oliver has been schooled at home; holidays too have been cancelled or postponed; no jetting off somewhere, or packing of bags as we load up the car for a long motorway journey to our holiday cottage; no day trips planned for walks, museums, city visits, or visits to National Trust houses and gardens that we love so much. Visits to all these beautiful places put on hold, added to

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Life Chez Dee Episode #55:
Childloss and Grief - a blog for mybump2baby by Elizabeth Dee

elizabethdee001

Mar 5, 2020
7 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #55: Childloss and Grief - a blog for mybump2baby by Elizabeth Dee

I wrote a little piece about Edward for @MyBump2Baby in response to Carla's appeal for real stories. Please read, RT or share and give me a follow. More of my blogs on #life #love and #loss .. and much more ... can be found on http://elizabethdee.me https://www.mybump2baby.com/child-loss-and-grief-by-elizabeth-dee/ 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 anyo

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Life Chez Dee Episode #46: Why I'm Blogging

elizabethdee001

Jan 14, 2020
3 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #46: Why I'm Blogging

I actually wrote this blog in March 2019 and published it on the charity website. I had a read of this today, I don't generally re-read any of my blogs, but the upshot was that I thought I'd publish my musings here on my personal page too. Other than this introductory paragraph, the blog is as is. So many people have said to me they think it would be good for me to write a blog, and even write a book. I’ve pushed that notion to the side so many times, but then I got thinkin

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Life Chez Dee Episode #11 : My little girl memories

elizabethdee001

Jun 2, 2019
8 min

Life Chez Dee Episode #11 : My little girl memories

So I watched the most beautiful video this morning. A friend of mine, taking her phone camera and walking round the garden of her parents’ house, listening to the birdsong, prompting memories of childhood. It immediately took me back in time to my childhood and all the happy days I spent in the garden at my grandma and grandad’s house. I shut my eyes and walked around the garden, and parts of the house too, and I looked at everything as I would if I were walking round with a

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