I love summer holidays from work, six weeks where my favourite job is my only job, no juggling paid work and being a mum for a month and a half.

I love getting away from the city for a week and spending hot summer days in a cool forest, surrounded by nature so dense that it's all you can smell, see and hear.

I love warm summer nights where you can be out in a t-shirt and shorts at 8 in the evening and not be chilled by the breeze.

I love the promise a new year holds! A chance for new plans, for making improvements with a definite start date.

I love that for the next three weeks I share my juggling balls and life can slow down to walking pace if I let it.

I love that my son is getting excited about Christmas for the first time.