The Look of a Mother
There is a look every mother gets. And no it is not the one where your kids go, ‘oh crap, I have really pushed her too far this time.’ It’s more of a look she has. It comes with the arrival of the first baby, and in most women, tends to disappear when the youngest hits about three or four. In some women it is earlier, in some it is much, much later.It is a look that speaks of her profession. In much the same way that you can tell someone is a mechanic by the presence of...
Read MorePower Forever
Taylah came home from school the other day and I asked her what she had learned about.‘Power forever,’ was her very candid reply.Now is it just me, or does that make no sense whatsoever? Cause I was confused and she was looking at me like maybe I should go back to grade three and catch up. It didn’t help that when I asked what ‘power forever’ meant she started talking about Tinkerbell and super heroes, and how they have ‘powers.’ I was expecting her to...
Read MoreAntipelliculaire
Its six forty five pm, and I have just had a shower. I don’t usually bathe at this time of night, but a nice quiet game of cars with Bailey ended up in him crashing my ‘digger’, me tickling him to make him stop, and then him jumping on me and pulling some kind of muscle in my back, that I didn’t even know I had. Thus I had to have a hot shower, and now I am sitting in the couch, clean, sore and sweaty, cause it’s really not hot shower weather.In Darwin it is never...
Read MoreJust Blog about It
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.1 Corinthians 10:31 I have been feeling very insignificant. I don’t really have a good explanation as to why I feel this way, I just do.Nothing is cut and dried. There never seems to be an easy answer or way of doing things. I’m finding so often with the kids these days that I am looking at them and thinking ‘where did that come from?’ Even Taylah has been repenting in tears, saying ‘I...
Read MoreFreedom to Fail
I won’t be winning any mother of the year awards today. Or any time soon for that matter. I sent both my older girls to school this morning looking as if the sky had fallen. And with the spate of natural disasters at the moment, that is entirely possible.Sometimes, as a parent, I am overly enthusiastic in my desire to train my children. There is just so much to learn! There are physical skills like hair brushing, self-dressing, and learning to sit still at the dinner table. There are...
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