It’s the Easter weekend and everything and everyone is quiet. My Facebook feed isn’t exploding with posts of people doing things and being out and about and generally having a BIG life, when all I can afford is a very small one. Living frugally has meant that our life as a family has become smaller […]
Coronavirus Diaries – Food Anxiety
I’ve been feeling increasingly anxious this weekend about our food security, amid continuing reports from friends of emptied supermarket shelves. Not just toilet paper this time, but necessities like fresh meat and vegetables. So I went to have a look for myself, on the pretext of getting wine. Our local IGA was cleared out of […]
Does parenting ever get easier?
I am exhausted. My cup is empty. The camel’s back is broken. I can’t be yet another thing to my children, but the roles keep piling on. As a parent, the job is never-ending, its boundaries ever expanding and you don’t get to walk away (or do you?). My reserves are gone and I have […]
Mother of teenagers
When I had little children and struggled with mothering them, I often wondered if it (parenting) ever got easier. Some people said yes, but most people said that it just gets different. I am now one of those second lot of people. Yes, it just gets different. I also now subscribe to the saying that […]
We need to do more
An open letter to those in charge of educating our neurodiverse children. This is a guest post by Lisa Formosa, on a subject very dear to my heart, as I have a son who has autism and whose needs have not always been met by his teachers and when they were, it was begrudgingly. More […]
