This is a year of milestones. I could tell you all about how my eldest daughter is now 16 (and knowing it all, as teenagers do), or my son turned 14 and is now taller than me, or the little one turning 11 just a few days ago and now learning to cook with Granny. But the most significant milestone…
Category: Life lessons
A dreaded call…
There’s so many different calls you hope you will never get as a Mother. Today I got one of those. And all things considered, it was one of the possibilities that I could cope with, with some level of calm. My eldest Ms Z calls me in a panic and puts her (new) boyfriend on. “Hi! We have a big…
Are we “over-enabling” our kids?
As soon as I had my first child, the childcare strategy was to have a nanny by the time I went back to work. I was fortunate to have a year off with my first one and our first nanny started when little Miss Z was 9 months old. We were lucky that we had that same nanny for the…
Can you quit the Mom job?
I already feel like I’m a failure as a Mom most days, on account of the fact that I couldn’t handle my eldest daughter and her very strong will to battle every single ounce of authority that I tried to exert on her. And when I say battle, I mean that literally, as I experienced all sorts of verbal and…
Happy New Twenty Three
A new year starting always brings with it the realm of possibilities. We make resolutions, we set goals, we make plans. We book the next holiday 😉 It also allows us to look back and reflect on the year just ended. 2022 was a difficult year. For so many people, for so many reasons… In my personal life, not having my…
In constant doubt…
I find myself getting very nostalgic every time I look through the “memories of the day” on my cloud photos app. It seems like such a distant memory those days when I had 3 sweet kids under the age of 6! I felt, back then, that I was doing a good job as a Mom! Heck, I even started a…
You are your kids’ mentor…
A couple of years ago I was at a women in tech gathering organised by my employer, at the office. Afterwards I approached some of the speakers, as I was on the lookout for mentors. I managed to have a great conversation with 2 ladies from different tech backgrounds. I still maintain contact with one of them to this day. But…
We are only human…
Today was a day like that day. The day when I lost my head and slapped my eldest daughter in the face. It was the same morning as today, where the two eldest kids were doing all they’re supposed to do, getting ready for school, and the youngest was tantruming just because she’s the youngest and thinks that acting like…
11+
Ten years ago today, my eldest daughter Miss Z slept inside my tummy for the last time. Time really does go by in a flash and the worst part is that our memories don’t keep everything, every moment, every funny joke, every way they said difficult words, the memories just fade. Sometimes they ask me, “‘Mommy, do you remember that…
Wisdom
This week a post went viral all over the internet of a young woman who died of cancer. She was only 27 and before she departed she wrote an open letter to the world. In this letter, no doubt written in a lot of pain and sorrow, she shared some of the joys of her last year of life as…