It’s that time of year fellow bloggers when I and my family decide we can live together twentyfour hours a day, in a small space. Add to that amnesia re last year, and we are all set. Tomorrow we leave for our annual family holiday. For years we went to my favourite place on earth, … More Brace yourselves, I’m off.
Do you ever read my posts and wish you were as good a mother as I am? I knew it, so sit back and I’ll let you in on some of my secrets. My life as the perfect mother began the moment I held my first baby, a daughter, in my arms. I knew I’d … More My top tips to help you be the amazing mother I am.
Would you like to read one of my most popular blog posts here on wordpress? It received seventy five likes in a few hours, at a time when I had only a handful of followers and even less readers. I wrote it in a moment but it seemed to resonate with many. I was new … More What it feels like every time I post.
Ever look at you blog and wonder why you bother? No me neither. It’s two and a half years since I began to blog. I have loved writing every post and this blog is now my diary. My thoughts are here, often in their rawest form. There are days when I am working, or even … More What’s next?
How many drafts have you sitting unfinished? The other night as I was posting I realised I am only seven posts away from my 700th published post. I then checked how many unpublished posts were sitting there, gathering dust. Would you believe it there are 194? So I thought you would like to see what … More The ones that got away.
Have you friends who were a huge part of your life until life separated you? I have a number of such friends who I have not seen in many years, but who I wonder about occasionally and they still make me smile, as I remember happy days of childhood in their company. One such a … More To you my friend.
I have heard it said you are what you eat, (usually by crazies on a diet trying to reassure themselves or convince others to join them) but personally I don’t believe a word of it. However on occasions, I do wonder why we are the way we are? Take myself for example, parts of my … More Why are you the way you are?
Some of you may remember the story of Lucy aged 9, who was diagnosed with cancer a year ago, and the fight her mother had to get her a medical card in order to pay for the added drugs necessary to keep her alive. At a time when Lucy was very sick and life so … More At last.
There is little in life so tragic as the loss of a child. For the parents it is a nightmare from which they can never wake up, for siblings it is an immeasurable loss, for the extended family a burden they too will always carry. Yet the ripples from the loss of a child are … More Today we remembered Ben.
If you are rushing I’ll make it quick… With a little over three hours still to go, Pa Curran has made his deadline for fundit. Thank you all so much. (If you want to know what I’m talking about I wrote a post yesterday called ‘Good people deserve good things’ To Pa Curran I say … More An update on ‘good people’.
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