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Looking Back

I’ve just enjoyed my first Mothering Sunday, spent in part having a Sunday roast in a lovely local pub with my husband, son and mother-in-law. We were chatting about my blog, and my mother-in-law prompted me to think about our miscarriage again, and whether it feels different now, over a year on and with my little boy in my arms. And so I have thought about that, and she’s right (as usual!), it really does feel different. But also, some things really haven’t changed.  Continue reading “Looking Back”

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Did Jesus have Colic?

A friend of mine always knows just how to get me thinking, and a chat we had this week was no different.  We both became mums in 2017, and as new mums we’re going through our own challenges (be it feeding, sleeping (us or the babies), winding, teething, etc.) and joys (seeing their first smiles, watching them learn to interact, become aware of the world, move their limbs…).  I’m learning that while every baby is very different, there are also a lot of similarities in what we go through as new mums. Before becoming a mum I hadn’t really thought that as a baby and a new mum, Jesus and Mary did all these things too.  It’s made me see the Christmas story a bit differently.  Continue reading “Did Jesus have Colic?”

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It’s Your Choice

Breakfast

Tonight, as I sit here at 2am feeding my son, I’m reflecting that for an awful lot of things in this life, I have a choice. I have the opportunity to choose my response or reaction to a situation. As I wrote in Labour of Love, that didn’t really seem to be the case during my labour, but it is increasingly becoming so now. Let me give you some examples from my day.

Yesterday, I woke up at 7am having had about 4 and a half hours’ sleep. Continue reading “It’s Your Choice”