I remember thinking for a long time that I’d like to have kids close in age. It would be tough, having to cope with a baby when your eldest is only a toddler, but that’s how I wanted it. All because I am 5 years apart from my sister and I felt that, growing up, it was the age difference’s…
When several lines are crossed!
Since the divorce that the kids spend roughly half their time at my house and half the time at their Dad’s house. We split the week in half, give or take. A couple of weekends back, I took the 2 girls to the high street to get passport photos. We got a ride there and then would come back by…
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…
Prejudice…
I was having a heated conversation with my partner about biases that we all have. I get very irritated with people that make racist comments, and it’s like something gets hold of me and I become an anger ball. When I was growing up in Portugal, just after the carnation revolution which overthrew the dictatorship and brought democracy to the…
New life!
It’s been a little over 3 months since I lost my job due to redundancy and finalised my divorce. I’d love to tell you that in this time at home I’ve basically been looking for jobs whilst enjoying every moment possible with the kids. But it couldn’t be further from the truth. The truth is that after having three simultaneous…
D-day on Armistice day…
They all said that having a “fantastic divorce” was impossible. I was crazy and delusional to think that. Some said it was gonna get very ugly, some said there is no such thing as an easy divorce. But both my ex and I were determined to prove them wrong. Throughout our journey together we did grow up a bit, especially…
When they fight the law…
It has been a challenging few months. In fact, this whole year has been a year of transformation. First there was my Mom’s condition getting worse to the point that my Dad couldn’t cope with being her carer anymore and we had to put her in a home. She is well taken care of, but it is painful to see…
The bigger the storm…
…the bigger the rainbow! That’s one phrase of many that I get daily on my Facebook newsfeed. I follow lots of motivational people so I have an overdose of inspirational quotes readily available on a daily basis. I have spent the last few days doing not that much at all. I think I’m going through the different stages of grief…
Rock Bottom?
Sometimes, doing something we love becomes second priority. Sometimes, third, fourth, etc, until you don’t do it anymore. For the past couple of years or so I have regularly written in this blog. I have enjoyed relaying stories of the children, sharing how I coped in certain (challenging) situations and mostly, I liked talking about the constant juggling of motherhood…