Motherhood – Mad to Live

Where have I been?

By: Zofia June 24, 2024June 24, 2024

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Hi. Just over a year since I last posted on this blog. When I log into my dashboard I see the many half written drafts waiting. The new series I had started. The coming-soon teasers. Plans for this website to grow. When I hit publish on my last post, I didn’t know it would be…

Writing Update – May

By: Zofia May 26, 2023May 26, 2023

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It’s been a pretty busy past month or so, and writing has been more of a challenge for me. We are currently on a visit back to the UK, so very much out of our regular routines, and of course the babba is a month older, and now very much constantly on the move (crawling and furniture walking), so I can no longer really write in moments of playtime. Nothing unanticipated there.

Little Joys

By: Zofia May 15, 2023

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A sunny morning walk along the canal, out toward Port Meadow, my baby nestled against me. Dappled waters. Cow parsley, horse chestnut and hedgerows dripping with may. Could not have dreamed of a more perfect welcome home.

Motherhood Moments

By: Zofia April 23, 2023April 23, 2023

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My baby lies asleep on my lap. He is ill for the first time, a tummy bug. Cradling his little exhausted body in my arms and stroking his head I just want to kiss him over and again, I love him so intensely. Soon I will be struck down too, although when I started writing this I was hopeful I might have escaped. I am not prepared for how violently it hits me, I feel I have been wrung out and bruised from the inside, and I am filled with amazement at how bravely my little one weathered it. Fortunately it passes through us both in 24h, and we are now recovered.