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Final moments of winter
Posted in art, cormac, home, lauca, me, seth, step-parents, Uncategorized on August 19, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Little one
Posted in cormac, i like walking, motherhood, motherhood bliss, Uncategorized on August 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Winter in the subtropics
Posted in cormac, home, i like walking, lauca, me, motherhood, motherhood bliss, seth, Uncategorized on August 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Holidaying with one child
Posted in art, cormac, i like walking, motherhood, motherhood bliss, travelling with children, Uncategorized, work and family (im)balance on July 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Look at all these true winter colours.
I took Cormac with me on a business trip and after the work we turned it into a holiday together. It is the first time I have holidayed with him alone.
There is something very special about both that kind of intimacy and the nature of being away from home. It suddenly all feels quite effortless. You are a better kind of parent, more attentive, more patient, more capable of moving at their pace. And they are a better kind of child, more reasonable, more appreciative.
This morning I had it all
Posted in co-parenting, cormac, feminism, motherhood, motherhood sux, seth, step-parents, Uncategorized, work and family (im)balance on May 17, 2017| 6 Comments »
This morning, in the chaos that is this week, located in the chaos that is this month/year, I received a tearful, panicked call at work from my 8yr old informing me that he had been left at home alone. His father had collected his sister for an appointment but had somehow left him behind, assuming that my fiance would be there. It is the kind of misunderstanding that occurs easily with co-parenting, and particularly so with rather uncommunicative exes.
While my fiance was driving back to my son, something my fiance could do because he is off work recovering from surgery, I promised to stay on the line with my son until they were reunited. But because I was also chairing a meeting at work, I had to put my phone on ‘speaker’ and place it beside me on the boardroom table. My son, still gulping back worried little tears, listened to my voice in the interim for comfort and safety.
I moved the team through the agenda seamlessly, pausing briefly to whisper ‘I love you’ and sign off, when I heard my son being greeted and comforted by my fiance in the background. No-one noticed and I continued on with the current crises at work.
It struck me as this sad little absurd moment of multi-tasking, work-life balancing, women can have it all-ing – all the more poignant because no-one realised.
Bird-watching bike-riding birthday
Posted in cormac, i like walking, motherhood, motherhood bliss, Uncategorized on May 6, 2017| Leave a Comment »
At the beach in summer rain
Posted in cormac, me, motherhood, motherhood bliss, seth, slow parenting, step-parents, Uncategorized on April 9, 2017| Leave a Comment »
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