"Y'ello?... Hello?... What?... Mate, I can't hear you... Can you speak up?... Look, you're just gonna have to leave me a message."BEEP.This is how many of my conversations with my brother go. I call his phone, he 'answers', I wait, knowing what's ...
Archives for September 2013
The kindness of strangers
I was out walking with the kids recently. (Compelling start to the story, I know. Bear with me.)I was pushing Mitchell in the pram, and Ashleigh was walking. So, despite my lead sentence, I was not in fact walking, but dawdling. Stopping and starting ...
Once upon a book review
On a recent trip to the library, Ashleigh chose the books she wanted to take home and we headed to the desk. I'd slipped in an extra book, and she noticed.Ashleigh: What's this book, mum?Me: Just an extra one to borrow, Ashleigh.Ashleigh: ...
Mother guilt relents
I have been suffering from a case of the mother guilts. Big time.I tend to overanalyse everything anyway. But becoming a mother, something that didn't come with a rule book, gave me plenty to second-guess and feel guilty about.And becoming a ...
Tiredness vs exhaustion
We've clicked past the five month mark. Five months since we became a family of four. Things are going well. We don't have a routine - no on the hour, every hour rituals - but we have a general daily pattern, and life gets easier by the ...