Twelve. It’s a life time. It’s closer to adulthood than it is to childhood. It’s your time for pushing and pulling……moulding your world with big ideas of what is wrong and right, what is just or unfair, what should be or could be. Recently I learned a new word – indefatigable, which means “persistently [...]
“Blink and you’ll miss it”, they say. But I didn’t miss it. I was there, placing you down to sleep in your tiny bassinet. I turned around and you were crawling, then suddenly climbing trees and within an olympic second of time you were leaping up to shoot basketballs. I was there spooning food [...]
As I write this blog post, the irony is not lost on me that it is only now, as Melbourne enters day 165 of various lockdowns, that I have finally had the time to do what is so important to me. For when life is "normal" my days are filled with running around, chores, dancing, [...]
It feels so normal that you are eleven today. Yet at the same time my heart is racing to catch up with my brain as it struggles to believe that it was not just yesterday when you were placed into my arms, all 2.7kg of your perfectly formed anatomy. For how could it be [...]
