I don’t care what anyone says: my job as a stay-at-home-mother is really hard sometimes.
The baby cried from about two o’clock this morning onwards and when light finally appeared it was obvious why when I saw this around his mouth: an allergic reaction to something he ate yesterday (although I’ve no idea what)
and he is [...]
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My annual postgrad alumni invitation has once again arrived with a thud in my inbox. It always feels heavy, even though it is an e-mail, because you can sense the gravitas with which my college issues the summons. And it does feel like a summons rather than an invitation.
These days I receive it [...]
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As a (shudder) semi-Type-A personality I rejoice in getting things done. Much of my post partum depression and frustration at being stuck at home with small children can be attributed to two things: 1) tiredness and 2) the need for a sense of life moving forward.
Being a stay at home mom, for me, means I [...]
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In my attempts to overcome my postpartum depression (yes, I’m on that topic again, just for a change) I have considered at length why some mothers appear to accept their lot regarding raising children and simply get on with it, why some mothers love (almost) every minute of having children and why other mothers, like [...]
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I’ve been trying to pinpoint what it means to be a mother, particularly a stay-at-home mother, in the twenty-first century. I don’t mean the day-to-day stuff. That is obvious enough. But when I think back to how far women’s rights have come in the last few years it seems impossible that we are still at [...]
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Yesterday I got glammed up in my finest work attire and went to a business meeting in London. Afterwards we went to tea at the Ritz. It’s a bit passé to have tea at the Ritz, I know, but going there, I felt so… so like me. Not someone’s mother, not someone’s wife, not someone’s [...]
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Sky news reports that today, January 24, is the most depressing day of the year for workers, as they realise the festive season is long gone and their next holiday is weeks or months away.
Does that mean that mothers, most of whom basically work all the time, suffer ‘the most depressing day of the year’ [...]
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Last night I decided to check out a site I have been meaning to visit for ages.
Friends Reunited sounds like one of those sites that only sad geeks or losers with nothing better to do would visit. I’m a yummy-mummy with two children, a husband, two dogs and a filthy house which equals no time [...]
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