Yesterday I received an e-mail from some very close friends who have just gone to South Africa for 3 weeks. They are having a wonderful time and it was so nice to hear from them. However, as it happened to arrive on a day where I felt as if I had been to hell and [...]
Archive for the ‘Single Parenting’ Category
Wish you were here?
February 11, 2010
Reeling – Part 2
November 13, 2008
I have come to a decision. I am not going to confront my ex about K and her 6 yr old daughter (I forgot to mention that she has a daughter in my last post) moving in, I am going to wait for him to tell me. I have my reasons for this: If [...]
Reeling
November 12, 2008
A conversation over dinner with Sonny: Sonny: “K is moving in with Papa.” Me: “What do you mean?” Sonny: “She is not going to live in her house anymore.” Me: “Do you know when she is moving in?” Sonny: “In December…I think.” I knew this day would come, but I wasn’t quite sure [...]
Silly Mama
October 7, 2008
The other morning I came downstairs to find Sonny sitting on the sofa with a stone the size of a large avocado tucked under his bottom. “Er…Sonny…why are you sitting on a stone?” I enquired, as any normal mother would. “It’s not a stone,” he sighed, lifting his left butt cheek to give me [...]
Must try harder
September 3, 2008
Sonny woke up at 2.45 this morning and didn’t go back to sleep until 6. He couldn’t sleep. He was “too excited.” Today was his first day at primary school – he has already spent three years at the Maternelle. We have been preparing for it for weeks. Scouring the shops, trying to find everything [...]
‘Snakes and Ladders’ – That’s Life!
August 8, 2008
Yesterday I sat on the floor playing ‘Snakes and Ladders’ with Sonny. The first time he landed on a snake he got frustrated and wanted to get up and walk away. I told him the game wasn’t over yet, that he still had a chance to win and if he continued to play, with the [...]
Had a bad day?
August 6, 2008
I have. This morning I had a rottweiler from the bank trying to frighten me into upping the repayments on a £23,000 loan I have been saddled with since leaving my ex. After going through my monthly income and expenditure (bills, petrol, food etc), and talking to me like a naughty child, we established that [...]
Happy Holidays
July 15, 2008
Tomorrow I am going to visit ‘the family.’ Not just my parents but my grandparents, aunties, uncles and cousins. The last time I saw them was just before I moved to France 6 years ago. I did the ‘goodbye tour’ thinking it might be the last time I would see some of my [...]
That was then, this is now – an introduction
June 17, 2008
“It all started with the van not starting. Fully loaded with anticipation, two anxious adults, a teething baby, one fidgety dog and mountains of badly packed furniture; key in ignition…nothing. A flat battery meant everyone out and a two-hour delay while it charged enough to take us to the channel tunnel. Broken windscreen wipers and [...]
