The thing about mental illness is that you can be travelling along in your every day life largely unaware that the wheels are falling off. I am a mum of three, a human being with various ambitions outside of motherhood and never enough time to feel like I can be much good at any of […]
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Maybe I’ll get married to Valium……
On October 11, 2014, after many years of faithful service, I finally gave my boobs the gold watch they’ve worked so tirelessly to earn. If my boobs were not desperate to retire, I certainly was. I suppose my original plan for breastfeeding was to make it to 12 months but somehow that time seemed to […]
I noticed immediately that someone had switched my chair. When I sat on it, it felt strange and sort of flat the way an office chair gets over time when too many bums have sat on it – like the cushioning is all but gone. I hate that kind of chair and my regular chair […]
**Note: this post was written back in 2010 but for some reason, the link to the original post is broken so I'm republishing it here so I can link to it in another post. You can tell it's old because I use phrases like "That's just how The Little Mumma rolls." Five years have passed […]
If you could know what it feels like to reveal a piece of your soul and then be showered with the kindness and support that I have been showered with, you would understand that it is worth the risk.
We went out to celebrate Bren’s 40th on Saturday night. Ten of us ventured out in the frankly blizzard-esque conditions and had a really lovely dinner. It was a subdued evening and we were all home in bed by midnight. But I don’t trust my brain so I took a precautionary Valium at the beginning […]
