ByCatherine Green
I am feeling a strange transition in my mothering journey. My youngest daughter will soon celebrate her eighth birthday and my elder daughter is about to enter her last year at primary school. We have been invited to open days at our local high schools, eek! A few years ago, I wrote a Mum checklist…
ByClare Watkinson
It began when I fell in love for the first time; heavily, painfully and inelegantly. He was much older; I still had braces on my teeth. We were together for a year in Edinburgh before I had to leave for Oxford and start the betwixt and between of long-distance longing. But however willfully I battled…
ByCatherine Green
As the coronavirus pandemic continued to ravage the UK, and our lockdown showed no sign of easing any time soon, I began to worry that I was distancing from my witchcraft and pagan practices. Not that I practiced the craft specifically before lockdown. I find it is more of a feeling, a way of life,…
ByGuglielminotti Trivel
As this month invited us to celebrate mothers I took this opportunity to do a bit of soul searching and thinking about the influence of my mother in my life and the many stereotypes of motherhood. In our Western society these occasions are commercially exploited to the umpteenth degree and it can be difficult to…
ByGuglielminotti Trivel
Summer: the symbol of motherhood Since we are in Summer I thought to talk about a subject that for women can be very sensitive and painful. Summer corresponds to the ovulatory phase in a woman’s cycle which is when a woman can conceive, therefore I am going to share my insights about being a mother…
ByCatherine Green
I have just listened to the BBC 5 Live radio phone-in regarding the issue around taking your children into work. This has been raised after Scottish MP Kirsty Blackman took her children to a Westminster committee hearing, apparently unable to find appropriate childcare at short notice during the Scottish summer holidays, which start earlier than…
ByCatherine Green
Today I want to share my gratitude for some very special women in my life. They are my local “Mummy Friends” and I know that some of you will be reading this article. Thank you for being in my life, and thank you for keeping me mostly sane during the challenging times we face. I…
ByCatherine Green
Being a Mother is my most important job. That might sound a bit cheesy, but it is absolutely true. I never saw myself as the maternal type, before I had children. I had this vague idea that I would one day have a family, but I never considered the full implications. It is just something…
ByCatherine Green
Phew! I was totally unprepared for the emotional roller coaster of my elder daughter’s first full week at school, and my younger daughter’s first week at preschool. We started the term full of excitement, happiness, and a little anxiety. As this week wore on, I turned into what can only be described as an emotional…
ByCatherine Green
It is becoming increasingly apparent that I desperately need some me-time. Fellow parents, you will understand. I have been doing the ‘stay-at-home-mother’ thing for four years now, and I am finally cracking under the strain. There is only so long that you can go through life with a forced smile painted on your face, while…
ByCatherine Green
Becoming a mother has been a massive learning curve for me. I know that sounds cliché, but it is the absolute truth. It wasn’t so long ago that I used to commute to work full time and everything revolved around me and my then fiancé (now husband). We agreed that we wanted to have children,…
ByCatherine Green
You might have a little understanding of where my mind is at the moment, as I am totally immersed in motherhood, and I find that it naturally connects with the traditional idea of being a housewife. This is where I begin to squirm. I do not like calling myself a housewife, and I always used…