May 6, 2016

Memorable Mummy Moments

It's Mother's Day here this weekend, and I for one am trying not to pre-load my expectations that it will be a day of calm and orderliness in my house, with perhaps a small breakfast of Eggs Benedict followed by a champagne lunch and something french and fabulous for dinner....Dreams are free, right?!

It did get me thinking, though, that I've been a mother for almost fifteen and a half years now and through that time I've had some pretty memorable moments.
Such as:

5. The time I met a famous TV child psychologist again after a brief meeting a year earlier. I wasn't sure if he would remember me but apparently he did. So much so, he said, that he mentioned me in his shows. "What do you say about me?" I enquired, hoping for something like Fabulous mother of two sets of twins who quite clearly has all her shizz together. "I tell them what you told me about your parenting style," he said. "That sometimes you yell so loudly that you see stars".......
4. In New Zealand we have a really yummy winter fruit called a feijoa. When one of my boys was three he mixed up the word for this delicious green fruit with a part of the female anatomy. Made for an interesting time for the kindy teachers when he told them what he had in his lunchbox.

3. Travelling on a bus in Athens in rush hour and we came to a bus stop. One of my eight year old boys got off first but before the rest of us could get off the doors closed and the bus sped away again. I saw the horror on my boy's face out the window. Alone on a busy street in a city where he didn't speak the language...I've never yelled so much in my life for someone to stop the bus.
2. One winter one of my kids got chicken pox. I didn't leave the house for a full 8 weeks after that  as all four had it one directly after the other.
1.One of my little boys came home from school one day and showed me the piece he'd written about his hero. "I want to be like my mum," he said. "Because she had a dream to be a writer and she tried and tried and tried and tried and tried and tried and one day she DID IT!"

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers and grandmothers and aunties and foster mothers and step mothers and god mothers and fairy god mothers. Do you have a particularly memorable motherly moment??

10 comments:

  1. Oh Barbara

    What a lovely post I too have four children although no twins and the things we have gone through with them I lost one at a shopping centre once it was so scary and over the years they have come out with so many things I can't remember them all they are aged between 30 and 36 now but I do have 7 beautiful grandchildren and another on the way so they keep me busy and smiling :)

    Happy Mother's Day to all I hope your days is filled with lots of love and fun I will be spending it at one of my daughter's places for lunch with as many that can make it :)

    Have Fun
    Helen

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    1. Oh, Helen! Losing them in a supermarket has always been my biggest nightmare. How fantastic that you now get to enjoy your grandchildren. I hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day.

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  2. Gorgeous, gorgeous post, Barb! You made me a little teary. I hope you get your breakfast of Eggs Benedict, a champagne lunch, and a fabulously wicked French dinner. I'd order you a side serving of calm and orderliness too, but I'm trying to keep this within the realm of the possible. ;-)

    Happy mother's day to all the mothers out there! :-)

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    1. It makes me a little teary too when I think about it, Michelle. I didn't even really know that the fact I'd sold a book had registered with him but it obviously had. Thanks for your wishes!

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  3. Oh Barb, that one about you being your son's hero brought tears to my eyes. I love hearing all your stories about your family.

    So funny what kids say...and sing. I'll never forget walking around Woolies while my four-year old daughter sang ABBA at the top of her lungs - 'Gimme gimme gimme a man after midnight, Take me through the darkness to the break of the day'. She sang it over and over and over and had the whole establishment in hysterics.

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    1. Now you've got me crying with laughter, Jenn! That's absolutely priceless. Thos are the really special memories.

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  4. I'm not a mother as I do not have children of my own, but I adore my mother. I got a text from her today saying she missed hearing me yell "mummeeee!" at the top of my lungs whenever I venture into the house. I miss her too. I've been away for a while.

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    1. I miss my mum, too Deanna but isn't texing great! I feel like I can be in touch with my mum whenever and wherever I want. I hope you get to spend some time with your mum soon.

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  5. Oooh that last one, so adorable. That's wonderful he sees how hard you've worked and that it's possible chase your dreams :)

    I am not a mum, but I am lucky to still have my own wonderful mum around. She's incredibly supportive and always hunts down my books (and rearranges the shelves haha). Can't wait to see her next week!!

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  6. Oh, Stef, how wonderful that you get to see your mum next week!!! I bet you'll have the best time.

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