It has been a particularly bad week at work. A number of tight deadlines all happening at once, causing very early mornings after very late nights, with too much coffee and chocolate to get me through. The nature of my line of work is that...
I've been back at work for two weeks now, after an extended maternity leave of eight months. In these two weeks I can't count the number of times I've been asked "was it difficult to leave your children at home?", "are you doing ok?", "don't...
We have just finished a weekend of some serious spring cleaning and it feels so good! It somehow feels as though order has been restored, equilibrium found, even though there is still much more to be done. There is no doubt that I am an...
From the moment my two year old opened his eyes on Friday morning, he was moaning and miserable. He was whining about everything that normally wouldn’t bother him at all. The weather was as bleak as he was and rain was forecast for most of...
At the end of a very long, emotionally draining day, I find myself thinking about a picture I saw on Facebook about two years ago which said ‘what if you woke up tomorrow with only the things you thanked God for today?’. On days like today,...
As a thirty something mom of a just-turned-two year old and a three month old, a wife, a friend, a daughter, a sister, an aunt, a career woman with a senior position in Corporate Finance and an entrepreneur I frequently find myself wondering ‘How am...