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My daughter at 12
Posted in daughter, motherhood, motherhood bliss, Uncategorized on December 30, 2017| Leave a Comment »
My children
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Spring at the beach
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Celebrating the beautiful ordinary
Posted in cormac, daughter, home, me, motherhood, motherhood bliss, seth, Uncategorized, work and family (im)balance on September 23, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Final moments of winter
Posted in art, cormac, daughter, home, me, seth, step-parents, Uncategorized on August 19, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Winter in the subtropics
Posted in cormac, daughter, home, i like walking, me, motherhood, motherhood bliss, seth, Uncategorized on August 3, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Our mornings absolutely suck
Posted in daughter, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, school kids, work and family (im)balance on May 6, 2017| 2 Comments »
This is a timely reminder that I could do work/school mornings better…
Autumn, at last
Posted in cormac, daughter, home, motherhood bliss, seth, Uncategorized, work and family (im)balance on April 9, 2017| Leave a Comment »
Autumn has so far included:
my partner getting quite a bit of surgery
my daughter turning 12
weather too hot for autumn
floods
soup made out of anything left in the fridge
bike riding again, finally
him, oil painting
me, submitting an essay for a book
an engagement cake
the storm shall pass
preparing the kitchen garden for replanting
a new job, and having to take my kids to work for the day because my partner is re-admitted for surgery, and the 7 yr old getting lost after taking himself to the toilet while I am away at a one and a half hour meeting (I know!) and coming across a stately gentleman in the corridors and asking him where I might work and that man, of course, being the CEO, and him telling my son to go down there and hang a right.. and taking my kids home later that evening at precisely the correct time because by then my son was relaxed enough to flip the bird to himself in the mirrors in the elevator.
High school begins
Posted in daughter, motherhood, motherhood bliss, school kids, Uncategorized on February 2, 2017| Leave a Comment »
“Holy fuck. Our children!”
– Text message from another parent witnessing the disorganisation of her kid and mine in getting themselves to high school.
What December 2016 looks like (in the subtropics)
Posted in cormac, daughter, home, me, motherhood, motherhood bliss, re-partnering, seth, step-parents, Uncategorized on December 17, 2016| Leave a Comment »
In the subtropics, around the middle of summer things start to die in the heat so Christmas is a strange presence in the season, although I guess not unlike Christmas being situated in the dead of winter in the northern hemisphere. Because the season of summer is not associated with new life here, but rather with the onset of destructive storms, bush fires, drought, and burning sun. Kitchen gardens are largely left to rest. The weeds grow furiously but otherwise everything feels very slow in the humidity.
Storms signal Christmas is coming and the garden succumbs to the mix of overgrown and death.
For me, the foods of summer are all Mediterranean, Mexican and Asian and seem to come in the colours of Christmas. And we eat out in the garden unless the mosquitoes are terrible.
My favourite part of Christmas is all the spontaneous socialising. Friends who message you to tell you they have two Cabernets and are waiting out the rain in a quiet corner, so hurry up and join them in the bar… and other friends who invite you and your kids to swim in their pool and share pot luck dinners together, and friends who beg you to be invited over because their kid is going spare and they want to talk and laugh with you, and all the playfulness and, the exposed skin and lying under a fan even, the goddamn craft (which now includes sewing by my kids).
And this year it included for me a writing deadline for (hopefully) another book anthology next year.
Previous views of December here:
Interestingly, I didn’t post photos in 2014.
I love to see what December looks like in your part of the world, so if you care to, leave a link to your own December photos in the comment section.
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