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Things That Make Life Easier In The First Year Of Motherhood

June 30, 2025 By Ellen Leave a Comment

  The first year of motherhood is a big adjustment – it’s tiring, repetitive, and often overwhelming, especially in the early months when the days run into each other and you’re trying to keep up with a baby who changes constantly. A lot of it is lovely, but a lot of it is hard too, […]

Filed Under: family, review Tagged With: baby, parenthood, parenting

Criminate – 100 words

January 11, 2024 By Ellen

Criminate Gender pay gap – maternity leave, child care, leaves office on the dot Gender sleep gap – gestational hip pain, night feeds, unruly concerns Gender glee gap – don’t wake baby, it’s a school night, mental load Gender dream gap – not this promotion, don’t be selfish, after they’ve left Gender love gap – […]

Filed Under: 100 Words, 365, 365 photos, other things I have learned, review Tagged With: 100 words, feminism, Gender Pay Gap, parenthood, prose poetry

Strings attached – 100 words

February 15, 2023 By Ellen

Strings attached My love is unconditional – an animal born in viscera. Hardwired. Evolved. Oxytocin enchantment distracted me from my enslavement. The journey began with keeping that outraged and unshelled tyrant alive. Hormone drunk, I vowed to nourish and protect – no matter what – and my noble intention did endure the most unreasonable of […]

Filed Under: 365, 365 photos, boys, family, other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, 2023 challenge, creative writing, motherhood, parenthood, poem, unconditional love

Aftermath – 105 words

January 5, 2022 By Ellen

Aftermath. They went back into their box, the shiny balls and sparkly strings, the lights, the red and green, and all the things no one believes in. Someone asked ‘Who made this one?’ A daubed reindeer, it’s glitter balding. It was a hopeful child, certain that He would bring the gifts and make the magic. […]

Filed Under: boys, family, other things I have learned Tagged With: 100 words, Christmas, creative writing, decorations, parenthood

14 years at the school gates: what I have learned so far….

September 13, 2018 By Ellen

Update: This was written a couple of years ago – now the baby is in P5 (still cute though).   My baby, he’s all grown up. It doesn’t seem a minute since… Yada yada yada.  You know the stuff – uttered by runny-mascaraed mothers waving children off to school before returning to their bleak and […]

Filed Under: advice, Boy Three, children, family, growing up., other things I have learned, parenthood, primary, school, school gate, things I learned from my children today Tagged With: education, family, in the world, life, parenthood, primary, School, secondary

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