Categories for Parenting
April 14, 2018 11:42 am
Autism Awareness Day 14 It’s good to wait! There’s a time for everything. I’m bursting with pride!!!! I woke up this morning and for some reason I didn’t feel like sharing an old blog on social media like I have been doing all month. I didn’t know why though. I carried on with my morning and thought I will process it later. Nae-Nae got me out of bed early because she fetched herself breakfast in bed but then spilt orange juice all over her bed sheets. I didn’t even get mad because I planned to wash bed sheets today. It just…
September 18, 2017 5:45 am
My daughter loves a rope swing in the woods so we often go in search for new ones. I always like to give them a go too because they are so much fun. One day we were out and we discovered a new one but in order to reach it I had to climb up on something. Lil lady watched while I found something that would give me enough height. It was a big log and as I stood on it, it started rolling away under my feet. Lil lady gasped and said “Mummy be careful, don’t break your back.”…
September 11, 2017 6:18 am
Words to inspire – celebrate along the way. I was out in the woods with my children one day and we wanted to get to the top of a hill to look down on our beautiful surroundings. It was a long walk up and not an easy climb so we paced ourselves. My lil lady kept stopping every few minutes at different points and cheering. I kept saying “come on we’re not at the top yet.” She ignored me as usual and kept doing what she was doing. My child is so deep, I thought there must be a reason,…
September 4, 2017 5:13 am
I’m sure we all know the saying “There’s always light at the end of the tunnel.” All darkness comes to an end so we can have hope. However, what do we do while we’re in the tunnel? Do we even enter it or go the opposite way? My lil lady and I were in the woods and we came to the entrance of the tunnel. I hesitated a bit because it was so dark at the beginning and I was a bit nervous. We were in the middle of the woods type forest alone. We hadn’t heard the sound of…
April 2, 2017 12:02 pm
*****World Autism Awareness Day***** It’s today and although everyday for us is Autism Awareness/Acceptance day I often join in with the rest of the world to mark April as a special Autism Awareness month. This year instead of my daily blog I decided to share some messages each week through poetry and song. These messages will be through the eyes of a parent but also through the eyes of someone on the spectrum. I kick off today with my own story of hope in the song “Mumma Don’t Cry.” The day I was told about the children’s diagnosis is very…
March 17, 2017 6:16 am
Words to inspire- Before we help someone else. We’ve got to help ourselves I’m often guilty of carrying on with life and tasks when I’m poorly and I do not rest to speed up the recovery. I’m getting a bit better though but previously I had an immaculate sickness record because I just carried on all the time. It actually wasn’t helpful though. One day I crashed and the fall was hard. I’ve just acknowledged that I’ve been doing a bit of the same this week and just fighting what’s happening in my body during the day, however I have…
March 15, 2017 3:13 pm
Words to inspire – Don’t waste time being something else. Be good at being you. It’s great to get inspiration from others but I would say only to the extent that it doesn’t change who you are, what the Almighty created you to be. I’ve wasted a lot of time trying to fit in and be something that I’m not. Now I have the understanding that I’m just quite peculiar but that’s not a bad thing. I’m obviously meant to bring something different. One of my colleagues asked me yesterday where was my bounce? I laughed cos she literally saw…
March 13, 2017 6:58 am
Words to inspire – Fix your eyes on the possibilities of tomorrow not the imperfections of today. I had a bit of a low time at the weekend because I was doing that worry thing looking at what isn’t good about my life especially my bank accounts. It caused me to look back at how things were like last year and the years before when our income was very different. All of a sudden I started focusing on what I didn’t like about today and everything good that happened last week was overshadowed. Then, thank God I had a lightbulb…
March 6, 2017 8:25 am
Words to inspire – If you can’t see the opportunity, perhaps you need to BE the opportunity. Some of the best things I do in life came about because I had a vision for something, however, I almost didn’t do those things because there was nothing to compare it to. I was looking for things that matched my criteria or I tried to match a criteria that already existed and I couldn’t quite find the right one. At which point I realised I had to create the criteria. Everything that is in existence had to start from someone or something…
March 3, 2017 6:50 am
There’s a blessing in helping others but don’t forget to do yourself a favour! It’s Friday so here’s the traditional reminder. We probably spend all week serving others. We look after our families, provide a service at work, volunteer for things, help our friends and all sorts. There is a real blessing in all of those things and they are so good to do, but we must not forget to do ourselves a favour too. What are we doing to help ourselves? I have a full on weekend doing things to serve others but even though It’s going to be…