Tag: blogging
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New Things are Hard, Will you Hold my Hand?
As I sit here to write this blog post (the first one in so many months!), I feel the bumping in my rib cage as my heart nervously flutters. I am standing on the precipice at the edge of something new and it feels like the hardest thing I have done in a long time.…
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Greet the Day
In the middle of the crazy morning routine of trying to get myself and two boys out of the house on time, I pause and take a moment. I step out onto the balcony in the freezing cold air to greet the day. I look at the sky, the weather, feeling its chill, I take…
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What This Past Year Has Taught Me
Photo credit :: wordswag/pixaby It’s always good to look back over the year… To see where you have grown, the lessons life has taught you and what you want to accomplish in this next year Here are some of the things I learnt in 2019: Learning to say no, is hard “Just because you can,…
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Writings :: Light and Shadows
Photo credit :: pixaby / pexels The dappled sunlight sent dancing shadows over her eyelids. She felt the movement of light and shadows, as each slid over her face. The scent of Spring blew in on a gentle breeze, carrying with it, the song of a blackbird. A contented sigh escaped her lips as she…
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An Epic adventure part 3 …… The Absence
It’s taken me months to get around to writing about my time away in Australia… I’ve sat down with the intention to write of it many times, but I found it exceedingly difficult to put my experiences into words. I welcomed in 2018 with a shadow hanging over me. I dreaded the months disappearing as…
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Overthinking
If I’m honest with you (and with myself), I have avoided writing for a long while. Why? For lots of reasons every other writer has for not sitting down to their keyboard/notebook/random bits of paper…. Life gets busy and it’s hard to carve out that time to yourself…… Then routines change and life gets even…
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An Epic Adventure part 1
I have to be honest. Leading up to this day, I have had very mixed feelings about my journey to the homeland. I guess it was more the knowing that I HAVE to go to apply for a spouse visa, than it feeling like a long holiday without the kids. Yes I am looking forward…
Carrie Baker - The Growth Collective 