One of the greatest moments of parenthood is experiencing so many of your child's 'firsts' that amaze you beyond anything. You get to delight in the utmost joy that only a parent can, thinking your child is incredible when they perform an action that as adults we take forgranted. Like the first time your [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On your birthday this year, I wrote a lot about your transition to young adulthood and the shedding of the innocent layers of your youth. Your child-like desires and actions are becoming more like a translucent desert mirage rather than an every day occurrence. So when I see a bit of that magical desire for [...]
