Dear Blossom, your first year of playschool will soon be at a close and in the 6 short months since you started you have acquired many new skills. You can now count to ten, recognise your name, point out triangles and even ask politely if you can get down from the table. But better than shapes and numbers and even table manners, you have grown in confidence and dared to be brave and that is what makes your mama most proud. Dear Bubbles, life with you is never dull! You pull faces at strangers, lick your feet at inappropriate times and scuttle off at remarkable speed when let loose in open spaces. You really do know how to make people laugh – potential career as a comedienne maybe? Dearest Daughters, may you always know how proud I am of who you are, not just what you do.

What do you think your little ones will be when they grow up?