I am a day late with this month's TBC Smiles, but hopefully you'll forgive me. They aren't any less fabulous, and that's got to be the main thing.
84 Months is 7 years, and I've been collecting my family's smiles for all of this time because they are the reason we do everything, and in the times when I feel like I'm failing, looking at the smiles reminds me that WE CAN DO THIS.
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| By Lizzie Royle (my niece) |
Anyone else is welcome to join in with TBCSmiles, share your smile, grins, giggles and chuckles over on Instagram with the hashtag #TBCSmiles (watch the spelling, I've just found lots of very old smiles with slightly mis-spelt hashtags).
Over the last month lots of you have shared, thank you all, they really are incredibly beautiful. A few of you also shared sunflowers, because it's August and that's important to my family - If you don't know our story, you can read it here. Thank you all. Truly.
It's always almost impossible to choose 9 smiles for a collage, I end up with a shortlist of about 40-50 and a satisfyingly sore face from grinning, so I asked one of my boys to select 9 of the biggest and boldest this month. I hope they make you smile too. If your face isn't pleasantly sore yet, you can find all of the smiles (and there are thousands) over on Instagram at the hashtag #TBCSmiles.
This jolly bunch were kindly shared by the following Instagrammers:
My family made our own smiles too. August is a hard month for us, so we've kept ourselves busy and had a lot of family time. We had 2 University Graduations, but due to COVID, only one ceremony... booo...
Your smiles are always there. If you don't see them at first, give them a nudge - you smile first. And don't be scared to join in - a smile shared is a smile doubled... and we all need more of that.
Love your nieces' drawing that is stunning. And gorgeous smiley faces. This really is Elspeth's legacy. xxx
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