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I Can Only Be Me! (And You Can Only Be You!)
So it seems, for the first time in years, perhaps ever, I am dancing into the New Year. Literally. OK, well nearly literally, the party was on the 30th, and it finished at 9.30pm as we all had to take kiddies home to bed! But […]
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Mama’s home!
So after my last post and a couple of comments (all of which I deeply appreciated – they touched my soul), I saw the light. I realised I could ask for what I needed, which was to escape. I asked in love. Mr Dreaming Aloud […]
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The confessions of a domesticated wild woman
As we head into a New Year, my soul is calling to be free. I am so sick and tired. Literally and metaphorically. Tired, tired, tired of the complications of emotional relationships on every level. Tired of family. This Christmas season has been fraught in […]
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Operation Christmas Spirit
Operation Christmas spirit: this is my last ditch attempt to feel festive, after feeling decidedly meh! after the pottery Christmas party yesterday. So up with kiddies at 8.30, despite a lousy night, despite it being my writing day. And straight into the kitchen. I unleashed […]
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Losing my religion
That’s me in the spotlight, That’s me in the corner, losing my religion. (REM) I have a feeling that part of the problem with Christmas this year, is that it’s the first year in my life when I really, truly know that I don’t believe. […]
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Children are for life… not just for Christmas
“True dat!” As my brother would say. Though it feels like a life sentence at times. And then they are so sweet. So vulnerable. So funny. And my heart melts. And then again…
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Festivals of light
We are in the middle of a six week period where cultures around the world celebrate light – candles and twinkling fairy lights for Hannuka, Eid, Christmas and Advent, Diwali and Winter Solstice. There seems to be strong human urge to gather together, to feast, […]
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Beware the troll!
Who’s that trip trapping over my bridge? Well bugger off! I’m too tired to eat you. I feel as much like Christmas as… I’m too tired for metaphors. Is it just extreme tiredness, two migraines in a week and a deaf right ear, or is […]
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Joy Pockets
Sharing this week’s gratitudes Bedtime family dancing to The Gipsy Kings … Twinkling fairy lights … Walking home from a creative day’s “work” to a roast chicken cooked for me … Baby Ash playing air guitar! Yes really! … Homemade chips … Our boy’s pidgin […]
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Woooosh!
Woooosh! What was that? That was my life. Woooosh! Zooming along at a million miles an hour. Doing twenty things at once. Distracted. Impatient. Rattling the cage bars. Come on, hurry up! I have been watching myself this past week, noticing how I take on […]
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