I’m in a sad mood as I gather the bowls, tie the flour-stained apron behind my back. There’s no obvious reason to be. I slept in blissfully long this morning, woke to sunshine and my husband’s kisses. We made eggs for breakfast, cycled to the second hand store to check their stock, stopped at the…
A few days after I miscarried our first child at ten weeks, I woke early without planning to. Sleep alluded me and I could see the sky already lightening where I could glimpse it through the skylight, so I got out of bed without disturbing my tired husband and tiptoed down the stairs. Grabbing a…
pieces of cake this big make a woman happy… There is so so much goodness out there on the internet that it can be overwhelming! There’s also a lot of rubbish of course, so here’s my friday contribution to helping to scale it all down to those you-just-can’t-afford-not-to-read-this pieces. These are pieces that have made…
Last week I got a haircut. This was the first haircut I’d had in Luxembourg. The last time I had one, I’d even taken the long train journey back to Brussels to see my old hairdresser. But it was time to relieve my head of this weight of hair now that the sun was finally…
I reread emails from a few weeks ago when tears came easily and chocolate was necessary, from a friend who has lost two unborn children. Her words of encouragement and understanding in those early hard days is what is saving me right now. I have a snatched conversation with another friend in the garden. She…
On Saturday, She Loves Magazine (a great blog full of great women) hosted a synchroblog, asking all their readers to write a Love Letter to their Body. This is my contribution. Dear body, You and me have had an up and down relationship over the years, haven’t we? There were the good early years, when…