Love!

Tonight I am reminded what young love feels like. It is Valentines day, these days the commercialism of the thing troubles me...not to mention the fact that me and my beloved have two love anniversaries to celebrate in March. But I am softened by my children sharing time with their current 'loves', Josh is in the kitchen making stir fry chicken sweet and sour from scratch with his girlfriend and Lorna spent ages on Saturday making 'love heart' cookies for Joey, who will be round after he has finished work. It refreshes me and reminds me to be less cynical, which has got to be a good thing yes?

I am fully immersed in my first antenatal course and all the planning, making and laminating that that seems to involve. I am aware that a lot of the practical stuff won't need to be repeated and the plans will need minor tweaks here and there as I do more courses, so this time around is probably the hardest. I'm really enjoying it, being with the fabulous people who are sharing a little bit of their journey to parenthood with me, is so exciting (I do contain as much of my 'cheesyness' as possible, honest! But it IS cool, I look back now wistfully at my motherhood journey....no regrets, I loved it every minute (even the long days and nights trying to figure out how to keep my dear son from crying!) I learned so much from them. I learned that my mama heart was infinitely full of love and kindness.

this is me with the children, many moons ago!

25th December 2010