To my understanding, it’s a bizarre occupation : “Milk-Making Machine”. How strange to be the source of sustenance and life to a baby. As everyone told me “Breast is Best” for baby, I happily anticipated the role of milk-maker. I understood that breast-milk is better than formulated milk which at best is a simulation of the […]
“Will I be rich and famous?” This is from the mouth of my 8 year old daughter when I asked her if she would pose for a photo for my blog post! “Why?.. Do you want to be rich and famous?” No hesitation: “Yes”. Her older sister asks her “What will you be famous for?”, but I […]
I know when I receive something nice and someone tells me “You deserve it”, they mean it in a good way… But that doesn’t stop me from thinking about all the reasons I really don’t deserve it – whatever the reward is – because I know truths about me they don’t know. Or I know that I […]
I just found out that the other day my youngest daughter, who is 8 years old, whispered to my very good friend : “You are a terrible mother!” Well it may not have been exactly that blunt, but it was along those lines… Then she leaned in further and backed it up with her own […]
Could Jesus swim? He didn’t mind the water, did he… He could even walk on it in the middle of a storm. So I guess the water is much the same as the ground to him if he wants it to be. But for me, when I prepared to do my first open-water triathlon earlier this […]
Virtuous and Terrible. That is me as Mother. Since I have become: “Mummy………. Mummeeeeeeeee!” Demanding and demanded. Giving and totally spent. Usually, simply because of the comparable percentage of time spent alone with them, it’s me and not their Daddy who bears the brunt of our children’s excessive delightfulness and sheer selfish rudeness. I discover […]