Tag: mummy blog
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Excerpt 4. Learning to listen.
Today was long. Eva is sick. Enough said right. Every mum can relate. All you need to say is ‘my kid is sick’ and every mum hears your resounding cry. It’s been a long, hard few weeks of back to back sicknesses in this household. Starting with Ari. Followed by me, ending in Eva, and…
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Excerpt 3. It’s all fleeting.
Today was productive. I managed to do a big grocery shop run while Eva behaved. Cleaned out my fridge. Re organised my pantry. Did a few loads of washing. Cooked two separate dinners for the family. Now I’m depleted. I’m currently stealing time in my room writing, while Nelson watches over the girls for 30…
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Excerpt 2. My dad.
This essay is essentially the first real entry to this collection. Excerpt 1 was really to introduce the why, the how, the what, the who. Today is about today. Today was hard. Exclamation mark. Eva, aka my hurricane/bulldozer, aka my rainbow baby, aka my second child, was sick today. So that was a joy. I…
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Excerpt 1. Why.
An old friend asked me today if I still write. You see, I thought myself a writer once upon a dream. Whether I was good or not, I wrote. It was an outlet. A way I found my voice. A sense of expression I found easier than words said out aloud. It was also my…
Excerpts by Claudia Hayes 