Drowning out the “Bad Mother” Monster

I’ve been a mother for a little over 5 years now, and for the majority of that time, I felt like a fraud. There was a little monster on my shoulder whispering in my ear that actually, I was a Bad Mother, and one day everybody was going to find out. I tried everything to […]

Stepping back to Step Up

It’s like walking along, and suddenly you’re confronted with a rather deep and somewhat wide ditch. Just that little bit bigger than a normal stride would take you over. So you take a few steps back, and attach it with a little bit of enthusiasm and you’re over the ditch without a bother. Now imagine […]

Be Available, he said

I went to church on Sunday, something I do less often than I would like. On this occasion, we had a guest speaker, and he said a whole lot of stuff, but there was one thing he said that kind of stuck. Be available. As in, often we don’t do things because we put limits […]

Making Cake with Little Person

Last week Wednesday, we made cake with some friends of ours, as The Young Lad had done quite well, and I had promised him a “Chocolate Cake Experience”. Little Person understood that the cake was not for her, but participated in the occasion with great enthusiasm, although she also spent time perusing a recipe book […]