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E is For……….
ENERGY. I don’t have enough of it. My boys have unlimited amounts of it. I am in awe at how they spring out of bed as soon as their eyes ping open each morning, and they bounce through their day, never...
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FRIENDS. It seems they become more important the older I get. I think being a parent can be a lonely, isolating experience at times, if you allow it. Sometimes I feel low and alone, and think that...
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G is For………..
GUILTY. I don’t understand why, but I cannot seem to help it. I seem to always end up feeling guilty about something. Because I would go to work and leave my child/children, because I was at work and...
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HEMORRHOIDS. Piles. Call it what you want. Pain!! Yet another badge of Motherhood…… Nobody mentioned it pre-birth. No mums told me to be prepared for it. No midwife advance notice of what might happen...
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I is For…………..
INNOCENCE. This word was on my mind last night, having watched the Panorama documentary on guns and the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. I found it painful to watch and to listen, but compelled at the...
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J is For…………….
JOB. Because being a Mother is a fulltime, well actually lifetime, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days of the year kind of job. And I didn’t really understand this until it happened to me. I am...
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K is For………..
KARMA. I’m not a religious or particularly superstitious person, but I do believe what goes around comes around. I do constantly say to my boys that its nice to be nice, and if you can’t say something...
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L is For…………..
LOVE. Has to be. Think of all the songs written about love, all the verses, poems, stories, books, it is the most wonderful and amazing emotion that every living thing should experience. I am...
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M is For……………….
Mother. It was always going to be Mother for M, i’ve just been trying to find the right moment to sit and write what I want to spit out, and whenever I had the urge to write because for me it’s an...
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Motherhood – by Dale Hanson Bourke.
The following verse sums up how I feel for my children and how I hope (i think i know…) my Mother feels about me. While we were sitting at lunch, my daughter casually mentions that she and her...
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N is For……………..
NO! I dread to think how many times a day I say No. Sometimes it is necessary, sometimes I think maybe it isn’t. A girlfriend once asked me why I had responded ‘No’ to my son’s request (I can’t...
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O is For………..
ORGANISE. It kind of comes with the territory these days. Long gone are those wonderfully lazy languorous Sunday mornings when you can sleep in, eat random things at random times, read the Sunday...
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PATIENCE. Something you need in massive abundance, but tends to be tried and tested to the absolute limits time and time again……..until it’s completely vamoosed. The saying ‘tries the patience of a...
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QUIET. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. Lovely peace and quiet. Quiet doesn’t happen much in my household. it’s kind of a double edged sword really. I long for it, desperately, amidst the noise and hullabaloo that is...
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R is For……….
RELAX. Deep breath in, count to 10, exhale slowly……… R&R – Rest and Relaxation……. nice thought. I’m currently today, in about 30 minutes departing for the aerupuerto, with the little people for...
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S is For………
SEX and SLEEP. Both of which you don’t get enough of once you become a parent. I name both because they are both equally important, but it seems that you often have to choose between the two. I love...
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T is For………..
TIME. Something you cannot stop. Something you cannot get enough of. As a child, time seems endless. I remember summer holidays seemed to last forever, having to wait until a birthday or christmas...
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U is For…….
UNIVERSAL . It was going to be UNIQUE. Both fit. Becoming a mother is universal, language is not really a barrier. Becoming a mother is also unique, nothing whatsoever comes close to it. Until it...
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How did life get that bad………………..?!
Just last week, in a town near to me, a young woman aged 23 took her own life by jumping from a multi storey car park at 8am on a weekday morning, clutching her babie’s teddy bear. When the police...
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V is For……………………
VODKA. It was going to be VEGETABLES……… as they are such a bain of my life, trying to get the boys to eat them, hiding them under other things on the plate, chopping and dicing to make funny faces and...
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