Personal Reflections
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Does Tea Keep You Alive? A Birthday Reflection
I used to love birthdays but life has shifted in ways I never imagined, and special occasions often bring more emotional weight now than joy. They remind me of the gap between how things are and how I once thought they’d be. They bring reflection, comparison, sometimes grief — not because life is bad, but Continue reading
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Is God real?
Over the last couple of weeks the questions have been back. We have had some great questions and it didn’t surprise me when my son asked me the biggest question he had ever asked me, a question which is one of the most frequently asked philosophical and religious questions in history. It is googled more Continue reading
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Is being a parent hard?
We were in our living room and I was on the countdown to bedtime. It had been a good day, although my son had been a bundle of energy all day, flitting from one thing to another and I was tired…..it was a good tired. These days are long but I would take them over Continue reading
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A Poem – I’m Bored!!!
The second poem in my series of poems. If you didn’t see the first one, He’s Fine, Click here to read. I hope the poem below highlights the frustration my son feels. I’m Bored! I’m bored he said more and more,At every opportunity he said galore.Morning, noon and night,He always seemed wound up so tight.Even during Continue reading
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This Week and The Many Many Questions of My Child!
I’m writing this while watching the England match….which I might add has completely bored me and so I started to think about what I would write about this week for my blog. Usually my son would ask a question and straight away I knew that question would be what I would write about but this Continue reading
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Can we look through my photo book?
All families have their traditions and its usually an activity or pattern of behaviour that reflects a family’s values, interests, or beliefs. It can be as simple as hanging the Christmas stocking up together at Christmas, or having a caterpillar cake every year on your birthday or getting a photo book every year!! We have Continue reading
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Time and the Many Many Questions of My Child!
What time is it, is easily my sons favourite question. When he first started asking it he was around 3 years old and I’m not even sure if he knew what it meant, nor what the answer meant. And I’m not sure he even wanted to know the answer. What I do know is that Continue reading
The Questions of My Child 