Image by Stefan Keller from Pixabay ‘Mummy?’ It was Benjamin calling out to me early one morning this week, ‘Ya? I’m here, in my room.’ I could then hear him shuffling and moving in his bed, shortly followed by his baby elephant stomping on the landing and into our room. He’d had a nightmare, I could see it …
‘I’m doing a bad drawing’ said the boy ‘Are you enjoying it?’ asked the mole ‘Yes’ replied the boy ‘Then it is a good drawing’ – Charlie Mackesy In these uncertain times, chaos, fosters creativity. Everyday there is potential for life to be something new. Being thrown into homeschooling has taught me that! That newness …
Sllllllooooooooooooow down. Just stop. Listen. It’s not easy, I know, but our lives depend on it…and not just because of a virus. Two years ago, almost to the day, I had back surgery. I had debilitating sciatica. It had originally been brought on by doing one of those mum and baby exercise classes where you …
I find myself missing my parents a lot right now. There’s something about a crisis that heightens the feelings of their loss in my life. I’m craving the sound of their reassuring voices, especially my dad’s. I feel slightly adrift, but it’s a familiar feeling that’s always there, somewhere inside me. If I sit quietly …
I’ve been finding it difficult to find the words to write lately. There seems to be so much content out there, so many people writing about what is going on and how to get through it. I’m finding it difficult to describe what I’m feeling, or maybe it’s just too overwhelming? Could be. I’m going …
We had another big death discussion a couple of weeks ago and it got me thinking about the things that Benjamin has asked or said about death over the last 3 years and how his understanding is growing and changing. I thought it may be helpful to others to see what sorts of things he …
“Fear and Love can never be experienced at the same time. It is always our choice as to which of these emotions we want. By choosing Love more consistently than Fear, we can change the nature and quality of our relationships.” – Gerald G. Jampolsky I’ve been giving away pieces of my heart last week, …
‘Meaning makes a great many things endurable – perhaps everything.’ ~ Carl Jung After Luna died, on one of my visits to her at the funeral home, I wrote her a letter. In this letter I said many things but one of those things was a promise to make sure her short life counts for …
I recently wrote a guest blog post for The Legacy of Leo blog, run by Jess, one of Leo’s mummies. The post is a part of her Diversity In Loss series during this Baby and Infant Loss Awareness Month – with this week being of particular importance. I wrote about Luna, but specifically about the …
Ahem, so, I have gotten two or three comments recently telling me how ‘strong’ I am or must be. These have come via social media channels, but I have had it said to my face over the years as well, and it’s got me thinking. I want to be very clear, I am enormously grateful …