Showing posts with label Mummy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mummy. Show all posts
17 Jan 2011
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...your littlest one being old enough to walk middlie to nursery and back without the pram, being liberated (from the pram), going the long way around the park, splish-splash-sploshing in puddles, racing to the next puddle with Mummy, wiggling our arms in the air like aeroplanes, getting absolutely soaked to the skin and not caring a jot
16 Jan 2011
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...feeling more and more mumsie, took middlie to her first party today, was lovely to be part of the 'normal' crowd
8 Jan 2011
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...at last having a reason to be able to dabble in arty things like face paints, had some excellent feedback - proud Mummy :)
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...'G' word alert! Being an adoptive Mum is... realising you have run out of chocolate and searching through the fridge you find the kiddies chocolate and think, "What the heck..." Then the next day when they ask for it for their snack, you have to make up some excuse and feel racked with GUILT, thinking they can see right through you and think that you are a fat Mummy
5 Jan 2011
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...learning the hard way to dramatically lower the expectations of yourself as a Mum that you had before you adopted. E.g. thinking that when they arrive you will have them stay at home and bond, like the books say, and then realising that you desperately need respite and so sending them to nursery / school can't come soon enough!
4 Jan 2011
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...speaking to other adoptive mums about this blog and about how it makes them feel normal. It is something we don't feel very often. I think that we all feel most of the things I have posted, but we don't talk about them too often as we don't want to admit the weakness that we / society perceive comes with the feelings. But we DO have the feelings, they are NOT weaknesses and they ARE normal given the circumstances
3 Jan 2011
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...lying in bed with your daughter and she strokes your arm saying "I love my Mummy"
2 Jan 2011
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...feeling guilty about not being the best Mum I could be every second of every day
1 Jan 2011
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...becoming a different person: you are not just a friend, daughter, sister or wife; suddenly you are someone's Mummy. People come to know you as and call you "Midge's Mummy" rather than "Mary." :D
31 Dec 2010
Being an adoptive Mum is...
...feeling guilty every day about not being the perfect mother, or the mother you thought you might be, or even feeling that you are being "good enough"
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