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Gareth Ellis
- May 28, 2021
- 3 min
Planning a 1st birthday party
I’m in a reflective mood today. I’m very much still trying to get my head around the fact that we have a one-year-old and a two-year-old, after Emi’s birthday – which is incredibly just over two weeks ago. I wanted to recap that day a little bit and also give some advice to anyone who may be planning their own little one’s first birthday party. First of all, let me make it clear, there is absolutely no ‘need’ for a party for a little one’s first birthday, none at all. For us
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Gareth Ellis
- Nov 23, 2020
- 2 min
Happy 2nd Birthday, Rupert
Today is a special day in the Ellis household. Our little, not so little boy, our first born, our beautiful son Rupert turned two. No longer are we parents of two babies (although they’ll always be my babies), or two under two, now we have a baby and a toddler. I’m so proud of him. He’s growing into this wonderful, clever little boy and despite not wanting to mention it, time is going so quickly. It seems like only yesterday he arrived, after a 54-hour labour, and a fairly tr
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Gareth Ellis
- Nov 19, 2020
- 2 min
Celebrating a birthday in lockdown
This Sunday was a weird day. It was the first time in 35 years that I’ve had a birthday in lockdown. But I’m not alone though, there will have been millions who this affected, not only back in March but also across this whole year – including my mother-in-law and Rupert too. Hopefully, my MIL had just as good a day as I did because despite the lockdown I had an amazing time. Yes, I could only see my Dad and brother outside, and one by one, and yes I couldn’t hug them or go ou
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Gareth Ellis
- Dec 22, 2019
- 2 min
Rupert is one – My 100th blog
This blog is special to me, as this marks my 100th since I started it way back in 2016. Back then it was Ellis in Wonderland and I was writing about everything from mental health to rubbish drivers. Then in May 2018 everything changed. We found out we were having Rupert and J suggested I turn it into a Daddy blog – Dad’s the Word was born and we were soon documenting our journey into becoming parents. In November of that year our Ru was born and since then it’s been a yearlon
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Gareth Ellis
- Oct 30, 2019
- 3 min
Happy Birthday Mum
Today we should have been celebrating Mum’s 61st birthday, and her first as a Nana. Instead we were scattering her ashes. You ever get the feeling that life isn’t fair? This time last year she was at Harry Potter World for her 60th birthday – a place she’d always dreamed of visiting. I’m glad we could give her a lasting memory before she passed away. It’s just shy of four months since our Mum/Rupert’s Nana lost her brave battle with cancer and I think I’m just about in the ri
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Gareth Ellis
- Nov 14, 2017
- 2 min
Happy Birthday to ME!!
So, tomorrow is my birthday. For the third year in a row I’m going to be 30. I know what you’re thinking: “Gareth there‘s no way you look 32, shut the front door!” Unfortunately, it’s true. The youthful face and 12-year-old mentality are just a ploy and I’m actually in my early 30s. Each year I love my birthday and get excited in the build-up (note the mental age above). Joking aside, why shouldn’t you get excited about your birthday? I told my parents that I’d got the day of
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