So Little Z, I have been neglectful in writing-up your quarterly posts and it’s only as I now, finally, sit down to catch-up that I realise how neglectful I have been! As are rapidly approaching 2.5 years of age, here in front of me I have a list of highlights stretching back to over six months ago. But late is, as always, better than never and it’s always a pleasure to read through things from so many months on. It …
Category: Mum Life
Waiting. For? I’m not sure. But recently, when the fiasco of pandemic life calms just a little, I have a ‘feeling’. For a while I sat on it and tried to work out what the feeling was. Then I realised it was a sense of waiting. That feeling of “What next?”. But upon finally recognising the emotion linger in my head, I was hit by an even bigger conundrum – why was I feeling that way? …
One of Little H’s favourite expressions right now is “Sharin’ is carin'”. She usually chucks it out there when someone isn’t sharing with her and conveniently forgets when we’re asking her to share more openly with her sister. But anyway, this phrase popped into my head when I sat down to start typing-up some thoughts I’ve been having since the start of the year on sharing information about my children. Now since we became parents, Sam and I have been …
So Little H, after 27 previous posts, this is the last instalment of “What Little H Did“. For reasons I shall explain in a separate post, now is the time to bring this series to end. It has taken me forever to sit down and write-up this post. It feels like an eternity ago since the last three months of your fifth year. You were only just into your second half term of school and you were doing so well. …
I’m losing track of time now, I really am. Time has done that magical thing where it takes on a whole new form and both drags and flies in equal measure. Individual days can feel like a week as I just wait for the respite of the evening where I don’t have to work, I don’t have to parent and, after all jobs are done, I can quite simply flop on the sofa. But then I blink and it’s the …
As I looked out my bedroom window last thing before snuggling into bed the other night, I saw the small blinking light of a plane moving across the sky. It held my attention and I watched the red dot pulse its way through the darkness, alone. With only the bright ISS for company. A sight that was so common – and usually multiplied five fold – four weeks ago felt so foreign. So strange. So out of place with how …
So, it’s been a whole week since we entered a Covid-19 induced lockdown in the UK. And it’s been over a week since my family and I inadvertently entered one in our household because, since school ended on Friday 20 March, the girls and I have been housebound apart from a daily walk. Sam has been far more “social”, but all that means is he has been out once for food shopping. It’s a very strange time. …
Over the last few months, I had quite significantly changed the accounts I follow on Instagram. I have moved away from all of the random parenting blogs that I had connected up to three years ago, back when I was blogging more heavily and in an attempt to build a following for me site. Now I have refocused onto accounts which help me either in improving life or improving my mental wellbeing. So at some point a late in Autumn …
I’ve suffered from stress before – I’m a millennial so have grown-up alongside the technology that dominates our lives. Since becoming a mum, that stress has ebbed and flowed far more than it did before as my ability to take a pause was suddenly limited to the times when I could step back from my children. But somehow – even when I went back to work after my second maternity leave last year – I managed to keep on top …
Bubba Z, these last few months have proven yet again that in those three short years between you and your sister, I have completely forgotten the amount of change that happens in the second year of life. You are a complete force of nature now and your personality grows stronger every day. The relationship you have with your sister also grows stronger, although it can be turbulent at times now you are clear of your own mind and won’t always …
