I am a very gushy mum. I tell my children about a hundred times a day, that I love them, and I wonder if that’s often enough?! I tell them that they are perfect, beautiful, funny and clever, because to me, they are and because I want them to grow up confident and believing in […]
Love
Dear Emma: You can get through this…
Sometimes in life, it is easy to get swept up in a world, where you listen to snap judgements that people make about you, without really getting to know you. Gossip, rumours, “banter” and nasty things people say, can start to get under your skin after a while and you start to believe them. In […]
Gay Marriage – Same Love #WednesdayWords
I was going to blog another poem about spring, for this weeks Wednesday Words, but then I heard a song on the radio which really moved me. Not only did it move me, but it's highly topical at the moment. Gay Marriage was made legal in the UK in the early hours of Saturday morning […]
Benign or Malignant?
I told you all about the lump I found on my neck, which turned out to be suspected Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma, aka Cancer. I went into hospital and had a hemithyroidectomy, where they removed half of my thyroid under a general anaesthetic. I had internal bleeding and I ended up having two general anaesthetics in […]
Twinkle Twinkle Matilda Mae
The blogging world has fallen shocked and distraught, as a fellow blogger and twin mummy, tragically lost her beautiful baby girl to cot death on 2nd Feb 2013. Jennie writes on her blog Edspire about her grief for Matilda Mae, and hundreds of us spend our evenings sobbing through her posts and tweets. It’s strange, […]