Sometimes I forget people who know me read this blog. Today, via a parcel in the post, I got a reminder they do. I received a package from the postman with my huband and my name and address typed on the front. Inside was a present for our twenty fifth wedding anniversary. Why I hear … More Surprise package, but from who?
Can you imagine an 80 year old ex English soldier sleeping next to an ex IRA soldier also in his 80s? Well in the ward I worked on back in the late 1980s, this is exactly what happened. Initially they arrived on the same day, two elderly gentlemen, coming in to have the same surgery. I settled them … More Lest we forget?
Isn’t parenting a succession of endings and beginnings? As we leave one part of their childhood behind something new begins, weaning, walking, potty training etc. This morning the children in my locality return to school. Between eight thirty and nine the pavement will be filled with older children greeting friends they’ve not seen for two … More Endings and Beginnings.
Are your children going back to school soon? Do you ever forget, even for a moment? Or am I the only one counting down the weeks, days, or even at times hours, until the official day I get my house back? Please tell me I’m not alone. Today I woke up to yet another million … More Am I the only one?
As children we imagine it, as teenagers we think it’s over rated, as new mothers we wonder at our own mothers, until one day we look back and we know exactly what it took to be a mother. This day twenty four years ago my first born child arrived in the world and I became … More What is it really like to be a mother?
Every day is twenty four hours long, but how many hours of every day do we really live? Today is my Dad’s birthday and I wanted to write a post reflecting on the Dad I miss even after twenty eight years. Then I remembered a post, which I’d written almost two years ago. This post … More This is what my father gave me.
This day twenty five years ago myself and yer man walked down the aisle. I’ve written many posts about him here, often tongue in cheek, but today I am stumped. What can I say to him, what can I write about him? He who… turned my life around, and made me whole. He who…makes me … More Tonight I have no words.
I know you’re bursting to know how our romantic night away went, and more importantly did he make it back on time for his feckin important championship match? Well not wishing to upset you but after 25 years we may differ in how we define ‘romantic’. Secondly, kind and all as you are to have … More How was our night away?
Last Friday night… Himself: Darling I’m taking you away for our 25th anniversary. Next weekend you and I will use that hotel voucher we won. Me: Really? Wow I’d love that. It’s five stars! Himself: You deserve it Half an hour later… Himself: There’s no easy way to say this … I’ve championship on Saturday, … More The highs and lows of marriage
Remember last week when I thought I’d have to sell at least one of my children in order to pay €800 for a new tooth? Well I’ve good and bad news. The good news is I don’t have to sell one of them and the bad news is… I don’t get to sell one of … More The cost of a smile, an update.
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