It’s a funny thing, social media. I work in social media and I love Instagram in particular – I love the community of mums and the inspiration I get on a daily basis (everything from clothes and books to mindfulness prompts to places to visit). I also love playing around with photography and words, and […]
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Now She’s One
A year now. Days that have passed in a blink; like the pages of a book left open in the wind. I cling to the here-and-now, before it’s another do-you-remember-when. Now she is one and he is three. The nights are long but I know this time is brief and oh-so-precious, and I try, in the […]
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Your Great-Grandfather
Yesterday, when you were playing at my feet and happily babbling your constant stream of sounds and half-formed words, I found out that your great-grandfather had died. He was 86. Even though you shared this world for the first year and a half of your life, he didn’t know you. He had an illness that […]
Your Working Mama
What you know about me at a year and a half: I am mama, I like cuddles, I love books, I love nothing more than to cuddle and read books with you. You know my smile, my laughter, my smell, the rings on my fingers, the lines etched beside my eyes, my not-so-in-tune singing. You know […]
Friends
We greet each other with a grin (hello), shuffle closer (how are you?) and embrace (so nice to see your face again). ‘ooo’. ‘meh’. ‘mmm’. We build sounds together in a tower – stack them up, click them any way that fits, then rearrange again. String them together and pull them along, take them apart […]
The Move
Recently your world has changed – tipped upside down, then rearranged. Same room but not. Same cot but different ceiling overhead. Same things but in a different space. Confused, you stared – where is this place? The house we left was our first home. You’ll have no memories of the farm next door, the […]
Resolutions
I usually don’t make new year’s resolutions but as the shiny new year nudged out the old, I vowed to make some changes, and inspired by Tara at Sticky Fingers and her New Year’s Promise, I have decided to write them here. I think mainly because when I’m having ‘one of those days’ these words will […]
Turning one
It has been almost two months since I wrote anything here and as time has cantered by, you have waddled out of your first year and into toddler-hood. You have been walking since the end of September but only last week decided it was time to let go of our fingers and the couch, and […]
Change is in the air
You are 11 months old today. It seems unreal to me, as if the days have suddenly been picked up and carried away on the wind. It’s that time of year when change is hanging in the air; when 5.45am feels so much earlier than it did a few months ago, when the temperature drops, […]
The world at 10 months
Your world at ten months old… Not crawling yet, nor walking, but always on the move somehow. Climbing, clambering, over knees, pulling up onto feet desperate to be standing now. Reluctantly try rocking onto forearms from seated pose and oh so close! but not yet there. (It won’t be long). Days filled with play and […]