Most Saturdays I’m up at 5.30am, carefully trying not to wake the family. I’ll make a quick black coffee before creeping out of the flat to get to the gym for 6am. We live on Hove seafront, straight across from the beach – it’s a lovely view first thing. On a Saturday I’ll drive to our local gym (during the week it’s a 20-minute walk, but I try not to be out for too long on weekends). Because I run an online fitness business, it’s really important I stay active. Once I’m done, I’ll drive back via the supermarket for breakfast supplies.
The others are usually just waking up by the time I get in, so I’ll get started on breakfast ASAP. At the moment, we’re all into pancakes on the weekend – the kids love helping out and mixing the batter. Arlo, our youngest, has achondroplasia (the most common form of short-limb dwarfism), which means he started standing and walking a little later than other kids his age, but he loves climbing on to his toddler stool to get stuck in! Recently, we’ve been making an effort to lay the table and all eat together, often with Paw Patrol on in the background.
