A Few Kind Words

As a parent, there are many things I want for my kids, I want them to be happy, I want them to grow up and do something they enjoy doing and feel the huge sense of satisfaction in what they choose. I want them to feel that no matter what age, they can come to me and tell me their highs and lows. Tonight, after being told my grandad had been taken into hospital today because of a bad chest infection, that this time it was serious. Now I didn’t mean for this to slip out, but whilst being told this and after a couple of responses of ‘you always say that’ and the look and words of ‘yeah, but this time it is’, I accidentally said ‘yeah, but you always do this’! What I was meant to say was ‘you always say this’, but I fucked up with my words. The response to that was ‘ok, I won’t tell you anymore then’. Always a great response from a parent. What I really wanted to say was ‘well you do and you know what, I can’t take it as well as what you actually think and I really struggle each time I’m t...

Your husband goes away for work and all that runs through your head is someone attempting to break in and how you’d react to it! Clearly I have an overactive imagination. I’m happy to report I’ve just woken up after the first night of him being away and all is fine. I didn’t have to use my torch to knock a robber unconscious to protect my family.  Both kids have slept well, which is an added bonus as one hasn’t been very well. Also, usually, when one of us goes away, one of the kids ends up in our bed, which I don’t mind, it’s cute that they want to keep us company. I did walk into our bedroom last night after sorting stuff out, to find one of their teddies waiting on the bed. I savour the morning time when I get up, as usually I get a good 45 mins where everyone else in the house is sleeping, I listen to how calm and quiet it all is before the chaos erupts with the repeated remarks of ‘come on guys, let’s get moving’ and the ‘go get yourselves ready for school’, which start off ca...

This weekend was meant to be a weekend where I didn’t have to work the Saturday night doing the cricket club bar that I manage. It was meant to be a weekend where, for the first time ever, as a family, we sat down and had a little Eurovision party. We were getting food in, the kids were going to stay up and watch Eurovision and someone else was going to do the bar. Friday evening was so chilled. We watched my boy whilst he took part in his training for cricket (which he started a couple weekends ago). He was awesome! It was a beautiful evening, the Sun was out and we walked around the pitch with an ice cold drink, watching all the young players learning different techniques. We looked at the new pitch which is being worked on and admired how great it was looking. Saturday morning we woke with a plan to tidy the house a little, sort my daughters bedroom which resembled a bomb site. I’d pop to the club to introduce a new team member to the bar who was working the afternoon shift then I’d...

After the last couple of years and experiencing an international pandemic, home schooling children (which I’ll be honest, never thought I’d do, but actually learnt a lot more than I did at my kids ages), spending 24 hours a day with my kids and husband for a period of 3 months, going back to working in the office, changing jobs unexpectedly and having more responsibility then I envisioned having, I came to the realisation that I am in such a great place right now! Like many people, in 2020 adapting to what was happening around the world was new. We were told to stay inside, only go out for an hours exercise, don’t see anyone else that wasn’t already in your household, to change our way of living to save lives.  In that time I learnt just how amazing my kids were with school work, what they did and didn’t enjoy doing, what they maybe struggled with but didn’t tell us about. They really surprised me! I know ‘the virus’ wasn’t brilliant to have around, but it gave me and my husband a ...