I live in the big scary world. Here’s my ideal and my aspiration: WWJT = What Would Jesus Think? But here’s me at my worst: WTF? = Wrong Thoughts & Feelings…!! Yes, I admit it. On occasion, thoughts invade my mind that are contradictory to my commitments, values and deepest desires. But there’s also this: […]
“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 […]
About 7 months ago, I gave up refined sugar. Seriously. Since then, I have carefully avoided anything with white, cane or brown sugar in it…* Yet this morning I bought chocolate: 2 medium-sized boxes of Roses chocolates and 3 assorted packets of “treat-sized” chocolates: Crunchie, Milky Way, Maltesers. To give away, you understand, what with the festive […]
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 […]
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 […]