God I love the holidays. I sometimes hear other mothers lament how long the summer break is, how bored the children get, how they drive them mad. And I can sympathise, I honestly can, but it still doesn’t stop me from freaking loving the school holidays. You see, I am not a ritual and…
Category: Ramblings
Out with black and white, in with shades of grey
The world is not black and white. It is in fact full of shades of grey, with a good heap of colour, definitely not black and white. Yet, as humans, we are committed to this notion that life has to be exactly that – black and white, right or wrong, yes or no. It is…
Connections
Master J finished school on Friday. He bounced into the car, full of as much joy as a nearly 17 year old boy can muster. “I’m done. I’m done for 8 weeks.” I smiled. I love the school holidays. It is just he and I at home. Mornings are lazy. No time frame constraints…
The dreaded selfie
I am not a fan of the selfie. To be honest, it all seems narcissistic to me. I love photographs, don’t get me wrong, but this era of The Selfie just seems, well,self indulgent. Quite often my Instagram account will get “liked” by scantily clad women whose account is nothing more than one boring selfie after…
The sound of a voice
When my mom was dying with lung cancer, my sister and I travelled up to Birmingham in the UK, where my mother had grown up. Without consciously realising it, we found ourselves outside my grandmother’s old house, my mother’s childhood home. I did not know my grandmother that well but my mom would regale stories…
Answering the call to write
For as long as I can remember people have told me that I could write. My earliest memory is when my first grade teacher told my mom that I had a reading and writing ability beyond my years and that my stories were lovely. I ignored those early cues. I moved from England to…
Autism and the sweet taste of success
Every now and again something happens in your day, in your life, that really is worth shouting from the mountain tops. Today is one of those times. But let me backtrack a bit. This time last year, Master J was in Mansfield attending a residential intensive program for children on the spectrum. He was…
Sunday ramblings
It’s Sunday today. Apparently it’s going to be nice here in Melbourne. I hope so. It really does feel like summer hasn’t arrived and I am a little tired of being cold. The weeks seem to just fly by at the moment. And with what feels like little productivity. I have a list. An ever-growing…
Breakthroughs, hope and moving forward
I’ve been awake since 3am. I am not going to be good company today, not least because it’s highly unlikely I’m going to be able to stay awake past midday. And it’s my cleaning day today, because Tom the Cleaner comes tomorrow. Because that’s what we do, we clean tidy for the cleaner. Well you…
Friday Five {Non-alcoholic drinks}
Finding a refreshing drink as an alcoholic can be a little frustrating. As summer approaches, and the Christmas season sets in, going out becomes the order of the day. But when you venture out, the non-alcoholic drink choices are incredibly limited. It tends to be orange or apple juice, coke, lemonade or lemon, lime…