Lessons I have learned. Well, some of them.
Six years ago I was eagerly awaiting the arrival of our first-born (she was late already) and the start of a new and exciting chapter to my life. The chapter where I become a stay at home mummy (or SAHM…
Like raking leaves in a hurricane.
Before I had Aoife I was very house proud. We didn’t have the biggest house, it was clean and tidy but not soulless and clinical. I’ll admit that one of my proudest achievements after having Aoife was maintaining a clean and…
Things their mother said…
“Please can I leave the table?” “Well you can’t take it with you” I was about eleven when I finally got what this meant!
“I love you with all my heart, well, most of it”
We’re into week three of the summer holidays (though someone clearly forgot to inform the sun) We’ve had a couple of fall outs, a LOT of chattering, a close escape, a fair bit of foot stamping and declarations of inhumanity,…
“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures”
We’re two days into the school holidays and I’m actually quite looking forward to climbing that mountain at the weekend just for a bit of bloody peace!
“All that glitters is not gold”
As I’ve mentioned, more than once, I was never going to have children. Ever. I was far too selfish, I liked life as it was and there was a whole host of things related to babies/children that I just knew…
A not so serious blog about family, life & wine.
