Adoption – How I feel about it all now

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As me how I felt about being adopted 20 years ago and I would answer the same as I do today. It has made me who I am.

That’s not to say that I haven’t had a bit of a wobble and a rollercoaster in between. But I do believe that it has given me some useful traits. I don’t judge, I am unselfish and generally see good in everything and everyone.

Just a Normal Week

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Monday teatime

“Who’s glass is this on the side?” me, said with a big sigh.

“Mine I had a drink earlier” one of my children, you can pick which one.

“The dishwasher is only half full, couldn’t you have put it in there instead?” me.

Tuesday morning

15 Things I have Learnt on Raising a Girl

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To celebrate my daughters 15^th birthday I have been thinking on the things I have learnt.

1-It’s very annoying when the she borrows something of mine and it looks ten times better on her.

2-They change their minds a lot, quickly and without telling anyone. Mine loves fennel. I personally can’t stand it. Dutifully as a mother I made space in my veg patch and lovingly grew some fennel for her. On proudly showed her what I have grown for her, her response is in a very matter of fact tone, she doesn’t like fennel now.

15 Years Ago Today …

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15 years ago I was very uncomfortably waddling around a hospital ward. Being 8 ½ months pregnant with pre-eclampsia the only thing I could do was waddle and wait. I had indeed waddled to my routine anti-natal class a week earlier to give in my routine sample. I then watched my midwife transform from her normal quiet calm self into a whirlwind organising ambulances and a hospital bed. Safe to say she didn’t like my sample.

If I Knew This 30 Years Ago

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The whole beauty thing has never come easily to me. My mother was of the ‘lippy and blue eye shadow’ era – need a say more? Tips and hints weren’t really passed on; instead I have had to learn about beauty as I went. So here are the things that I wished I learnt a long time ago.

Twitter and Single Parent Support

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If you’re prone to the odd twitter session you will know what a #hashtag is.  When you’re watching your favourite programme on TV, the appropriate #hashtag can mean finding like minded people so much easier. A lively, if not heated, debate on anything from the rubbish ending of a programme to the weird fashion choices of the presenters can be followed so much easier.

Should Kids Do Chores?

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When I worked in an office full time, the kids and I could be out of the house about 10 hours each day 5 days a week. So it was never a question if the kids should do housework, for my own sanity they had to. I am not talking anything along the lines of child slave labour, contra to my children’s belief, but they both had to help with things they could manage.