A walk through life with God
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”
Well, baby is now over 1 month old, and it’s been quite an experience so far, learning to be a mum. Some things come pretty naturally and others really, really don’t. I’ve certainly learnt a lot, so I thought I’d share some of my early lessons – hopefully they’ll be familiar to many of you and will be a reminder to me in the months to come that we’re making progress! Continue reading “Motherhood: Month 1”
Just over 3 weeks ago my life changed dramatically, completely. We’ve been gearing up to it for quite some time now, and on Tuesday 17th October things finally kicked off. After months of scans, counting kicks and talking to someone I’d not met yet, and a few weeks of plenty of walking, bouncing on my maternity ball and praying for baby to make an appearance before too long, it was time. With a movie style flood, fortunately while I was at the hospital anyway for a check up, my waters broke and I was whisked up to the maternity unit.