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Do Dolphins Sleep…?

Posted on January 25, 2017January 27, 2017by Emma Gibb

Dear Isaac and Flora You are 4 and 1 (Flora, you will be 21 months old tomorrow).   I have a window today where the worlds of nap time and nursery have collided, and instead of having a doze myself, or catching up on emails, or reading, I am writing this.  I was sitting here […]

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My Night Owl

Posted on November 20, 2016January 18, 2020by Emma Gibb

She calls out for me with a shriek that yanks me from sleep, scattering my forty winks. She’s sitting up in her cot, arms outstretched. Hold me please. Hair sticking up in tufts on the top of her head, big eyes blinking. I pick her up and cuddle her, but she flaps around in my […]

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Now She’s One

Posted on April 27, 2016April 27, 2016by Emma Gibb

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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Dear Flora

Posted on March 30, 2016March 31, 2016by Emma Gibb

Dear Flora This is the first time I’ve written about you since you were born, 11 months ago.  I don’t have a record of your early days like I do for your brother.  I don’t have pages after pages of journal scribbles and regular blog posts to record all the milestones.   You haven’t had hours of my […]

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Hello from this mother…

Posted on March 22, 2016March 22, 2016by Emma Gibb

As this is my first post on my new blog I wanted to say a little hello and tell you a bit about why I’ve started This Mother.  I’m Emma, living in Aberdeenshire, and still adjusting to life as a working mother of two. I first started blogging after I became a mum to Isaac in 2012. […]

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Where I’ve been…

Posted on July 12, 2015March 18, 2016by Emma Gibb

There was a post on our stay at the fabulous, family-orientated Crieff Hydro. There was a half-finished piece on lovely Lunan Bay in Angus. There was another on Easter egg hunting at Crathes Castle just outside Banchory. Since the last post here in February, there have been a number of draft posts that I simply […]

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Your Working Mama

Posted on May 13, 2014March 21, 2016by Emma Gibb

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 […]

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The Game I’ll Always Play

Posted on March 29, 2014March 20, 2016by Emma Gibb

Your sudden cry has pierced an arrow through my dreams (like every other night this week, or so it seems). Bits of shattered images rattle in my head as I shake the weariness that clings to me and stumble to your bed. I don’t know what troubles you at this hour (I don’t think you […]

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Friends

Posted on March 12, 2014March 20, 2016by Emma Gibb

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 […]

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The Move

Posted on February 28, 2014March 20, 2016by Emma Gibb

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 […]

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