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Mothers leave a blueprint within their babies. It isn’t necessarily physiological or even genetic. For mothers come in all shapes, sizes, genders and number. Here’s to a few of the MANY who mothered me through life.
I wrote this somewhere in February then forgot it in the drafts. That in itself is a lesson to be learnt. Never put kindness on the back burner. It is the only thing worthwhile you can teach your child. Help them grow a beautiful heart.
Reading with a baby, especially if you can’t quite hand your child off to anyone, gets more difficult as the offspring grows and develops a love for ripping paper. It’s a constant battle between do I love my child or do I love my books and it can go either way if you’re me. I steered clear from making that choice for a while until this past month when there was truce on the battlefield.
I keep assigning gifts and favours to celebrated days and my lover laughs at me. The fact is, we don’t love each other because we share gifts. We buy each other the most obnoxious crap only because we love each other. Valentine’s Day or not. All kinds of lovers surround me. So do my special deliveries from Kickstarter.com
The other day I picked up a book and my husband’s eyes widened in surprise. No more than 3 seconds later my baby raced over with the twinkliest eyes ever, throwing herself on the book in my lap. Tears blurring my vision, I put it back in the shelf.
Here’s a jump that I never ever thought I’d make. Some balm for my aching heart that crazily missed reading books around the clock pre-baby
Each of them were profound and true to their characters. Peculiar but so certain. That must come from strong beginnings. In a very Alice mood, I accompanied my toddler to her first Mehndi, yet I want her to analyse everything the way she seems to be internalising it, never following the crowd but only her heart.
“I don’t think…” then you shouldn’t talk, said the Hatter”
5 Myths about Older Parents Debunked, 5 FACTS about being an Older Parent I absolutely adore. Won’t have had things another way in a million years.
A letter to myself a year from now. What would I like to remember, what’s better forgotten.
Departing from our usual, this deserved a mention. We all dream of a safe life for our children. Here I am, celebrating the first step to a just, non discriminatory Nation. Kudos to the Judiciary.
Where on one hand we get the oh-so-petite baby comments, we always get compliments on how she eats everything on the table. Here’s how she cracked it for us. Baby led weaning, is actually a lifestyle. Adopt Baby Led Life!