Sunday, 13th June 2021 On missing out by being late… Last week Friday, we piled into the car at 1PM. Lu, me, and them—we got into the car with one large suitcase and five other bags, each filled to capacity. Compared to what we normally travel with, it was a conservative amount of luggage, but… Continue reading The Day They Were Sick of the Sun
Sunday, 16th May 2021 Monday It was my last shift, my last night on the phones. And so, I didn’t mind too much when I had one of those annoying respondents. You know, the ones who think they know more than the researchers who have put together the questions of the study—a study that has… Continue reading The Day the Rain Came Late
Sunday, 9th May 2021 Aussie role models So, Lu has recently adopted a particularly jocular air, playing pranks on me, teasing the boys, and coming out with witty catchphrases delivered with a distinctly “down-under” accent. Why? Find the reason in Tomi’s request from the other day: “Mummy? Can we go to Australia so we can… Continue reading The Day Before the Last Day
Monday, 3rd May 2021 Monday Every weekday, my phone alarm goes off at 14:45. Pick boys from school. It’s one of many. Around the clock, shrill and repetitive sounds pierce through whichever room my phone’s been abandoned in, and drives Lu—Mummy too, when she was here—mad. To be honest, they drive me mad too. But… Continue reading The Day After He Turned Three
Sunday, 25th April 2021 Note to you: Two things I am keenly aware of: 1. It has been almost exactly one month since I last shared a post. 2. I keep doing this. In fact, this is my fifth post this year. I want to be more regular but I have found it particularly difficult… Continue reading The Day He Turned Six
Sunday 21st March 2021 Note to you: Lu, Me & Them is over a year old! On the 16th of March 2020, Timi spiked a temperature of 38 degrees at exactly the same time that the Prime Minister announced that such incidents required everyone in the household of the fever-ridden to isolate for fourteen days.… Continue reading The Day That Ended a Quiet Week
Sunday, 28th February 2021 “Who can find a virtuous wife? For her worth is far above rubies.” Proverbs 31:10 Side note Lying in the spaces between the carefully aligned rows of words I write is a discernible yearning for approval felt by a deeply insecure woman. Like a watermark left by a possessive producer, it… Continue reading The Thing About Not Being Good Enough
Sunday, 17th January 2021 The First Day On the last day of 2020, I was neck deep in a narrative of self-pity, and I was trying to work out the most impactful way to share it so that I could invite as many people to my pity party as I could manage. 2020 had been… Continue reading The Day I Still Didn’t Know What to Say
31st December 2020 ‘Twas Two Nights Before Christmas… …give or take twelve hours, and leaving Timi and Tomi with Lu, I wrestled Temi into a jacket and headed to Specsavers. You remember that the ophthalmologist had let us know that he needs glasses. You also recall my beeline to hysteria over my baby’s blindness. Well,… Continue reading The Day That Ended the Year
Monday, 21st December Monday Lu put the lights up today. The boys had been asking for more than two weeks now for us to put up Christmas lights. They wanted them hung above our front door like our neighbours had. When it first came up, they may as well have asked Lu and I to… Continue reading The Day We Turned on the Light
Lu Me & Them 