I posted this blurry photo of my sleeping child on instagram the other day… In fact when I posted the photo, all four of my children were asleep in their beds, and it was 8:50am. As I watched my boy blissfully snoring his head off I had a twinge of panic… I should wake him, […]
Ten Things I Will Care Less About This Year
I’ve got four kids, and a husband, a house, a garden, a car with broken air-conditioning, and somewhere between 12 and 18 chickens. I have enough to worry about without adding anything extra! So this year there will be no resolutions, no ‘word’ of the year, no promises to do more or be more… Instead, […]
Why I Didn’t Video My Son’s Performance.
I didn’t video my son playing in his piano concert. I didn’t even take a photo. I planned to, I even got my phone out ready to press the record button and video every second, but when they called his name and he walked up to the piano, I put my phone down. I did […]
House Envy.
I only stepped foot inside the front door for a moment… I was just dropping a child off for a birthday party… That’s all it took for me to be infected with a serious case of house envy. We have a nice house, a great house in fact. Okay, so it’s a half renovated house, […]
What to join my very exclusive book club? Or maybe you just want to win an Amazon voucher?
My friends and I are starting a book club, a very exclusive book club, with only three members. You can have a book club with just three people right? Ok, so it may just be an excuse to get together every once in a while to eat brownies and chat… but that’s what book clubs […]
Hold On.
When things are hard, or scary, or hopeless, when life is whizzing out of control, when you have no idea what to do… Find a small moment and hold on to it. Maybe it is the memory of her smile, or the way he smelled when you hugged him. Maybe it’s the big breath she […]
The World of Ridiculous Comparisons.
Sometimes I get sucked in… I get sucked in by the images on instagram, the pins, the status updates and the blog posts… I get sucked into the world of ridiculous comparisons. I must be the only mother in the world who doesn’t adore her kids enough to take selfies with them and post them […]
Does parenting get easier as kids grow up?
My children are aged five, eight, and almost twelve. In many ways I feel like we are leaving behind the years of parenting little kids and moving on to the next phase… Recently a friend who is still in the trenches with a toddler, a small baby, sleepless nights, and piles of nappies looked at […]
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