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 [...]
"Your children are not a masterpiece that you create. They are their own masterpiece, creating themselves, and you have been given the privilege of watching them be the artist." ~ J. Warren Welch. Evie, never before have I been so aware of this great privilege than when I watched you perform in your final [...]
