Posts made in May, 2010
The big question: NLP and Parenting
The sun is up, the birds are out and its only 4.50am. How dare they wake me up the morning after my first night out in ages!!!! That was just the start of my hangover day. Why is it that alcohol affects you so much more when you stop drinking it so often?
Then Pickles decides that today will be a grumpy day so all things normally easy, become more of a challenger for Mummy and I have to reach into my ‘bag-of-tricks’ to ensure things go easier on me. Then to top it off over morning tea with friends I was asked a most serious question? A question my brain just could not contemplate with the leftover Daiquiri and Lemon Sorbet Vodka Cocktails swooshing around up there. Our friends asked what I would consider to be the most important NLP technique that I use the most as a Parent. Although I knew the answer straight away, it needed words, lots of them, to give a good explanation and example, words which seemed mushed between strawberries and vodka and not much sleep.
Read MoreThank You Timmy – A Parenting Tip
Dear Timmy and Friends of Timmy Time
Thank you for your generous display of enthusiasm and for your delicious sense of humour. If not for your encouragement, your cheekiness, your elevated outlook on what is wrong and of course your endless use of the word “baaa” in many guises I would not have at least 20 minutes a day of tranquil Mummy time.
Thank you Timmy and Friends, you are simply wonderful for both Pickles and Me.
P.S. Let me know what TV shows help create your time out and we’ll do a poll!
Read MoreThe way to BLISS via Lemon Cupcake Road
Woke up this morning after a very heavy session with my stylist yesterday and needed some emotional therapy. Pickles was in need of some yummy tummy food and I was desperate for something delicately delicious.
So this is what we got up to this morning.
My road to pure bliss:
Lemon Cupcake Recipe
Read MoreExhausted and nowhere to go
After a couple of weeks contemplation, silence and nostalgia I have finally found the courage to get back to the blog.
Theres been no frilly knickers needing ironing and no unnecessary cleaning of the front of the fridge (I won’t go there). Instead what lead me to pause and create a silent gap on my blog was the awful exhaustion I have been feeling for no apparent reason.
Why is it that tiredness hits you harder once the kids are older as opposed to the first few months of their life? Is it just because back then we are used to the lack of sleep? Or is it because we have settled back into a sleeping routine and the interruptions then feel like a volcanic eruption.
Pickles has had two bacterial infections in the last two weeks and although she has cruised through them, I haven’t.
‘Silly-mummy syndrome’ takes hold and I am on a knifes edge, worried, panicked. My mental faculties seem to fly off in the distance only to then turn and taunt me yelling “are you crazy”, “stop the excessive worry and take a breath”. But I find it so hard.
I lost my Mum at the age of 25 so death is far too real to me. This has had a knock-on effect I never expected. Now, any kind of illness puts me in a state where I excessively worry. I stupidly panic. And a crazy worry-wort takes over.
This excessive worry is what seems to exhaust me. So how on earth can I stop it?
I know maternal attachment has a lot to do with it too. I know I am still attached to her via the invisible umbilical cord but I just struggle to relax when she isn’t well. Stupidly so.
Now that she is fine I am recovering and attempting to lift my eyelids back into the real world. And so I say a big “hello” on my return to the tap tap tap of my keyboard to those out there so patiently reading my blog.
Thanks for sticking around!
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