With Mother’s Day just around the corner, I can’t help but be moved by what it means to be a Mum.
Being a Mum is a tough gig. The hours are unreasonable, the workload is unrelenting, and your achievements frequently go unnoticed. I recall one particularly teary early morning feed where I deduced that whoever coined [...]
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Mother’s Day
Posted in Life, Parenting, Relationships, work life balance, tagged Mother's Day, Mums on May 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
2009: the story so far
Posted in Family memories, Fitness, Life, Parenting, Personal goals, Relationships, getting organised, taking control of your life, work life balance, tagged New Years Resolutions on April 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In the business analysis world, we have regular performance reviews against business plans and so on. This systematic holding-to-account forces a refocus of energy and resources on achieving an organisation’s top priorities.
So, given that governance is what I DO professionally, with March now behind us, I thought it was time I held a quarterly review [...]
Broken limbs, for broken people
Posted in Parenting, work life balance, tagged broken arm on March 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My son broke his arm playing at school his week. Poor little lamb. For the next few weeks there’ll be no football, no swimming, and no softball. He’s taking it pretty hard.
On the upside, it has been rather nice to have a couple of days off work for the sole purpose of devoting time to [...]
Mollycoddling our kids is abandoning our future
Posted in Family memories, Parenting on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a sign of the times that our children are growing up helpless – and useless.
Typically tech-savvy, my 11 year old son texts me at night if there’s a scary noise in his room but he’s rendered profoundly inoperative at the sight of a toaster and too frightened to go to the local shops on [...]
Funny of the week: The mom song
Posted in Funny of the week, Humour, Parenting on January 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Mothers everywhere will laugh ’til they cry (and teenagers will roll their eyes) at this anthem set to the tune of the William Tell Overture. This witty ditty takes so many of the daily catch-cries that mothers repeat ad nauseam over the course of a day, and distills it into a couple of very funny, [...]
Oh, Christmas tree!
Posted in Family memories, Life, Parenting, Spirituality, love, tagged Christmas on December 12, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
My sons and I put up our Christmas tree on the weekend.
In our house, putting the tree up signifies the official onset of the festive season. We start by cleaning the whole house. It’s the only way I can ensure that my boys (at ages 9 and 10), will clean their room – albeit to [...]
Reclaim your life in 15 minutes (The 15 Minute Rule)
Posted in Feminism, Life, Parenting, work life balance on December 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
We all want to be more organised in our lives, but it’s easy to get too busy to know where to start. Unable to see the forest for the trees, we become overwhelmed with our obligations, expectations and the myriad of demands facing us every day. When we’re overwhelmed – we shut down. We don’t [...]
What’s your parents’ dirty little secret?
Posted in Humour, Life, Parenting on August 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Secrets. All parents have ‘em.
It starts innocently enough. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. It’s all in the name of fostering our kids’ innocence. Enriching the wonder of their childhood experience.
As they grow, it becomes more about keeping the peace. Hoarding away the lunch-box treats so they don’t gorge them all in the [...]
Top 5: Things that would make me happy
Posted in Life, Parenting, Top 5, career, work life balance on July 6, 2008 | 3 Comments »
# Top 5: Things that would make me happy
These are not the humanitarian, Earth-shattering, life-changing, societal and transformational type items, these are selfish, inconsequential things that right now, today would rather cheer my little corner of existence…
1. Finding a job I love
For most of my career, I’ve focussed on doing what fits with my family obligations, [...]
Book in 6 words? Brilliant idea!
Posted in Bi-polar, Books, Feminism, Life, Parenting, Writing, love, work life balance on June 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Communicating with meaning is difficult. Concisely? Almost impossible (well *ahem* it is for some of us!).I completed a job application recently which limited the applicant to 350 word responses to the criteria. *ug*.
I was riddled with anxiety. HOW could I explain to these people in just 350 words that I was so much more qualified, [...]
