Tag: single motherhood

JOURNAL

Feeling the load

September 15, 2023
Lately, I’ve been feeling the load – the overwhelm of all that parenting brings, especially as a single parent. Getting kids ready for Uni/College/Groups, figuring out who needs to be where and when, who needs dinner at what time. Juggling work and children. Home ed. Kids at college. Bills. Money {or lack of}. Meals. Housework....

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JOURNAL

Looking for a pause

July 9, 2021
Are you looking for a pause? I’m sat drinking a cup of tea, I’ve just done half an hour of yoga and am taking five minutes to decompress after a busy day. A driving lesson followed by 5 hours of non-stop work, on my one full ‘work day’. Trying to get as much done as...

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FAMILY

Life with five

June 23, 2021
LIfe right now is full-on. Sometimes, I find myself missing the slowness of lockdown. While I am glad that life has restarted, that the kids can be at college and groups again, that there are places to go and things to do, there is also a yearning for the first lockdown, when we had endless...

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FAMILY

Now I’m the Mama of an adult…

May 17, 2021
Saturday saw my eldest daughter turn 18. 18!!! I managed to raise an actual adult. As I sat writing her card the night before her birthday, I was struck with so much emotion. My baby is a grown-up. The one who made me a Mama has grown up when I wasn’t even looking. They tell...

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FAMILY

Mothers Day Love

March 15, 2021
Yesterday was Mothers Day. It was the first time I’ve spent it with my Mama in about twenty years. It’s been almost three months since she moved over here to Wales, and the joy of having her close enough to visit for a cup of tea is still immense. Without those 150 miles between us,...

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Dear Bean – Week Twenty Eight

March 26, 2019
Dear Bean One more week ticked off. If I’m being honest, I’m really struggling. I’m not enjoying this pregnancy at all, and that makes me feel guilty some days. It’s really tough going, and some days I am seriously questioning how I am going to make it through until the end. My back has been...

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When adulting sucks

June 13, 2018
Yesterday was one of *those* days. I woke up too early, tired, naggy, hormonal and just not really feeling it. I’d just poured a cup of tea when Beastie woke up and joined me downstairs. What I’d hoped for was half an hour/an hour to myself, to drink my tea and do some yoga in...

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