To raise a child it definitely does take a village, but what does that village look like? One of my greatest realisations has been that each of our villages looks different. The composition of the village depends on many factors: family structure and dynamics, financial means, the needs of your child, the number of children […]
Type A. Perfectionist. Planner. Control freak. I am and have always been all of those things. From conception to delivery (and further), of all the things I had worried about, those that actually happened had never even occurred to me. While it was a part of my long-term plan to become a mother, it was […]
The mental load is something that I have read and thought about quite a lot since becoming a mother. This term “mental load” refers to everything that mothers have to remember and juggle in their minds; all the work that goes unseen. For example – scheduling medical and dental check-ups, booking haircuts, organising wardrobes as […]
As much as we were all eagerly awaiting N’s being able to express himself with words, there have certainly been moments when I’ve wished (and still wish) that he was not quite so ‘expressive’. Take our weekly outing to the shops (about 18 months ago) at a little centre packed full of friends, acquaintances and […]