‘When I Was A Girl’ No Longer Has Any Relevance To Today’s Parenting
The worst thing that could happen is not that they will ignore you. It’s that they will notice you.
The only love you keep is the love you give away…
Valentines Day, like any big holiday can send you spiraling downwards into a funk. So if you are reading this and feeling unloved, unappreciated and let down, read on…. Firstly, I want you to push aside your disappointments of the ‘present’. To pack in a box who is ‘letting you down’, and not ‘being there …
Beautiful Oops
It’s very noisy here, and hard to imagine that two 11 year olds girls coming down stairs really do make furniture shake. The phone rings constantly and I’m the only one who seems to hear it and have to be chase down one of four missing handsets usually found under beds or in sofa cushions. Within our chaos …
One Day At A Time
It’s a familiar saying. But until today I’d kind of felt it was ‘owned’ by our friends in AA. How wrong I was. Because when we are going through any difficulty, it’s mostly ‘getting through it’, not , ‘getting over it’. And in the struggle, the ‘one days’ turn into ‘one weeks’, and ‘one months’ and so on. …
Summer Lessons Learned
The cooling air, the bright blue skies, the turning leaves, a quieter house, leads me to face the fact that summer is drawing to it’s beautiful close. Today I want to celebrate the things I learned this summer. I learned that you can grate hard boiled eggs? I kid you not. They grate like a dream to make …
I’ve Learned – Unknown
I’ve learned
that you cannot make someone love you.
All you can do is
be someone who can be loved.
The rest is up to them.