New beginnings

Wow! I cannot believe it has been almost 5 months since I last updated my blog. Clearly, motherhood has been more about doing than about writing about it (although, truth be told, I have been doing a lot of thinking and reading about it recently). When I started the blog back in the summer, the plan was to make it a regular thing, and to document my experience of being a mother of two, my struggles with parenting, the big learning curve I feel I am on… There are so many things which have fallen by the wayside because I didn’t write about them when the time was right.

• For instance, my decision to give up anger for Lent (let’s face it, giving up chocolate is obsolete and unnecessary, and besides, chocolate is much better at helping to feel better than yelling at your kids could ever be!) – and, related to that, my thoughts on the parenting books I have been reading and my decision to become a peaceful parent (cf. this very interesting AHAParenting website, owned by Dr Laura Markham, whom I also follow on Facebook).
• Or my daily struggles with an ever-more-mobile-and-more-inquisitive baby, the mind-numbing experience that is staying at home with a baby who cannot talk, being locked in just one room with him because any other room in the house is not sufficiently baby-proof (or Boy-proof, rather…).
• Or my incredibly conversations with my ever-more-intelligent-and-thoughtful little Girl (soon to be 5… where does time fly?!?).

I hope to write about all of these things retrospectively, and I will also attempt to update my blog a lot more regularly. For the moment, I will try to come back here once a week – and saying this will hopefully commit me to being consistent!