Insights on Motherhood - Mayhem & Beyond
In recent days, very recent days, there has been a shift. A mood of eerie surrealism and a sense of being unmoored from reality. Of being emotionally unravelled by our social media feeds, our inboxes and the silence in the streets. At 8am this morning I go for coffee, I locked eyes with a stranger,…
Quite a few years ago I wrote a friendship manifesto. I had been thinking of friendships a bit at the time and had just gone to my 30 year school reunion and so I was reflecting on life long friendships and those that I had that were more recent and those that had evolved. Today…
Talking to a friend last week, she has her first child starting school this year, we were discussing all the emotional realities and logistical challenges that starting school presents. For example, she was genuinely concerned how she would get her sock hating 5-year-old to conform to sock wearing. My advice of course, being something to do with bribery…
It all started with a disposable coffee cup. Waiting in line for my coffee, there were two women in front of me. They seemed to know each other, their interactions polite, not overtly but in a reserved manner. A bit like knowing of someone but not really knowing them. They ordered coffees, with one of them…
Netflix’s sitcom Working Moms first debuted in 2017 so I’m a bit late to the hype surrounding the series but I’ve recently been binge watching my way through each season and I loved it. The show explores the minefield that is parenting, work, relationships, friendships and all the glorious and grimy bits in between. It’s comical and…
It was Charlie’s birthday party, there were 20 something mini Ninjas in our backyard. Loud and free they are screaming, jumping and laughing. So much wild laughter and the sound is like balm to the soul. Children’s laughter is pure joy and comes as a gentle reminder that innocence is not always lost. There were tears…
You know that feeling when you use to think one thing and suddenly because of what becomes your lived experience you start to think differently? Yep, I do. What feels like a lifetime ago, but was only two years ago, I wrote a blog post called “I have one child, not an only child.” It…
There is a lady in my Pilates class who I’ve been watching a bit lately. She has caught me staring at her a few times now, she probably thinks I’m a bit weird. She’s pregnant you see, 6 or 7 months pregnant and she has been coming to Pilates for a couple of months. I…
There was never any doubt that today would result in tears. Mine were a certainty, Charlie’s less so and MM kept it cool. Proud but cool. I justified my tears by telling Charlie that they were happy tears, because it was an exciting day and a special time. We are trying to teach him that all…
Last year I surrendered the idea of having new year resolutions and instead followed – much like sheep – the trend of choosing one word. I’ve embraced the idea again this year (Fearless, by the way) but since I’m back at work I’ve started reflecting a bit on some observations I’ve made recently about work and…
I am watching Charlie doing the moves to “Santa wear your shorts” it is the night of his Kindy concert, I’m smiling and laughing and then suddenly I am holding back tears I didn’t even realise I was holding on to. I hold my breath and suddenly I am remembering when he was a newborn, a time when advice, solicited…
