The Ninja Mumma

Bubbles? !!  Yes please !!!   I will get used to this !  How nice is it when you get an upgrade on an evening flight and will be able to stretch out and even sleep on the 5 1/2 hour flight to home!  We have been chilling and working in the Business Lounge at the airport for 3 hours so far and 2 more to go.   Time to catch up on emails and messages to friends and lots more great stuff.  Time to sample some adult drinks! This is quite a new concept for me as all of my adult life has been in Mum mode and pregnant or feeding babies.  Don't worry.  Responsible drinking only here but fun adulting with the rest of the crew  😗

Well.... that was a day that will be etched in my memory forever...and for my parents too I'm thinking!! The day that nearly changed my family's life in a drastic way . Just before Christmas I was walking with my sister and little brother in ankle deep water out to a known sandbar in Australind WA . We were out some distance and my memory gets hazy there. I can see up above me the light of the sun through the water, my brother on my shoulders trying to get air. He was abou ... t 5 and I was 8. I was struggling for air and got none. My next memory is of me waking up vomiting near my dad who was bent over me. Some how the alarm was raised by other kids and Dad got there in time to drag us out of the trench that had been dug, and give me mouth to mouth to get me breathing again!!! Still sends chills down my arms and back just writing this. How a split second can totally change the course of our lives! Who's to know when we have our last day..... We have a respon...

Feels like me today  😚 😙 😂 😃 😃   My darling 4 years old said very concerned this morning as he left the house to go to kindy, "Mum, you'll be all alone today"! 😶 😯 😶  He was concerned. I tried to deflect that and say how I was seeing people later and then he'll come home to me, so I'll be ok. !!!! You have no idea how my insides do back flips at the thought of a day child free! !!! Poor kid would be gutted to know....so I pull on my big girl panties and put on a brave face  😄 😃 😂 😁 😁

What a spectacular winter day in Albany. We got out this afternoon and walked part of the boardwalk and kids raced on scooters, looking for the black skinks and enjoying the breeze.  Makes me so grateful to live in such a beautiful and safe part of the world.  There is so much turmoil and strife in other countries, we just need to stop and breathe in the beauty and be grateful!!!

Oh boy. I needed to read that. It was one of 'those' mornings after a couple of 'those' days with a particular child/man. He's very much like me I've come to realize and this article pointed out a few truths to me. I read these things, they resonate with my soul and then in the busyness and heat of the moment. ..it all flies out the window  😶  Having teenagers over the past 17 years has really stretched me and lately I'm thinking, I'm stretched to my limit and "I can't do this  again" as 1 man-child hits 16.5yrs old and shows to be so much like myself!  😆  During the night I was praying for a young mum who has 3 little boys, who'd been unwell and was reflecting on just how different those years are. When you're sick and have little ones, there really isn't an option of just going to bed. They can't bathe or feed themselves, safely. It's all upto Mum until Dad can step in if he's able. Those years are tough. But a...

I'm full of magic tricks. The first was getting to the gym by 6:30am. The second was making all of my family disappear from the house for the whole day !!!!!!! Blissful work space  😊 😊 😊