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Eve Marshall Jenkin (nee Baker). 27/02/1944 – 05/06/2010. Thank you for being my Mama. Thank you for being so many people’s Mama Afrika. Thank you for the life you gave…

precious moment… was reading this to Cameron with my mom on Sunday. i was so tired. eyes falling out of my sockets tired. but it was one of my alltime…

Whilst Cam was sick yesterday (she had croup. it’s horrible. especially waking up and wondering where the tractor noise is coming from inside your house, and realising it’s coming from…

1. When my mom said, yesterday, whilst her and Cam and I were cuddled up on her bed, reading the Three Little Pigs: “you’re a strict mom. you’re raising a…

A while ago…it feels like a lifetime and a half ago, now… I  wrote something for Parent24. Some people didn’t like it much. I hated that time in my life.…

1. when every moment is precious, treat it thus. and, hey, every moment is precious, merely because it exists. 2. that a child’s logic is the cleanest form of honesty…

Five years ago today… I went on early maternity leave. On the first day, I packed my hospital bag, went and saw my dad and attended my last antenatal class.…

the thing is…even when i feel my most incapable, it’s you that makes everything feel possible. with you, everything is possible. thank you for this. x

Driving down the other freeway, the one I hate. Work pounding at my brain, it’s no wonder I’m confused. Everybody wants something, nobody gets it. “Meetings, deadlines, contracts all breached”,…

…forces pulling from the centre of the earth again…i can feel it… It’s really that time, we’ve been told. When my mother was told she is terminal, and accepted it…she…