Crippling Overwhelm
I can’t cope today. I feel my shoulders and neck tensing up like I have the weight of a thousand responsibilities. The jobs never end. I know that, and yet I still let the never-ending to-do list get on top of me. It’s Saturday; I’ve just had two days of the kids being at school…
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“How dignified chasing the refuse collectors, begging to have my bin emptied because I forgot to put it out the night before.” The day begins as my alarm goes off. With every alert on my smart watch, I turn it off and drift back to sleep, until finally the threat of sleeping in for work…
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Overcoming Party Anxiety: A Mother’s Reflection
Parties have never been my thing. I think when it comes to big group gatherings, I find it so hard to know where I should be or which conversation I should join in with that I just end up on the sidelines, observing. Today was different. Today I made it through my daughter’s birthday party,…
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When You Can’t Find the Words to Write!
Don’t you hate it when you really want to write something and your brain basically puts on the brakes and says, “Nope! Not today!” So you find yourself aimlessly staring at a blank page? These past few days, I’ve really struggled to write anything. I get a fleeting thought of what I want to write,…
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Churning Christmas in a June Heatwave!
We were literally entering a heatwave at the weekend, here in the UK, and on Friday I received an email to book a Christmas event. Christmas…! I’m sat here melting, trying to keep two small children from dehydrating, and companies want me to think six months down the line about Christmas! No! I’m currently trying…
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Finding Time for Fitness
From the minute we wake up, we are bombarded with a constant reminder that we need to be fitter, we need to live healthier, and we need to be better. But how do you achieve this when you feel like you’re just surviving from day to day? When you’re simply trying to keep your head…
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To all the dads/men out there…
To all the dads; The single dads striving to play the role of mum and dad. The hard working dads who spend most of their time out at work, unable to spend as much time as they like with their family. The dads who feel like they’re inadequately not doing as much as they should…
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Happiness is a Bunch of Tulips
Okay, so obviously happiness is not literally a bunch of tulips, but what if I told you that making just one simple gesture, could lead you to happiness. Every day, I finish work, I pick up any bits of shopping I might need and every day I walk past the bouquets of flowers and I…
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A Worry Shared is a Worry Halved
Today my daughter did something brilliant. She shared a worry with me and I feel so grateful that she felt that was able to share something so important to her. When it was time for her to go to bed and I thought she was settled for sleep, I returned downstairs, but within minutes she…
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Words Cut Deep
I wanted to run away today and it hurts to admit that. I know that my four year old loves me, but when she tells me she doesn’t want to be with me, she wants to be with her daddy, instead; her words cut deep. Her father and I split up a year and four…
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The Ruminating Mum 