“Tired Mummy Brain” meets “Assignment Due Brain”

Tomorrow is the last day I have available to get my last assignment written.  Usually this wouldn’t be a problem, but I have tired mummy brain 😦

Elise, did the sweetest thing earlier, so sweet it brought tears to my eyes! She simply got a chair out for me, so I could sit at the table and get on with some study! I’d been grumpy with her most of the day as I’d been trying to juggle her being clingy and studying, yet she could still see past that, love me and give me what I wanted/needed.  It was humbling receiving her love when I haven’t been very lovable.  And the best part of the day was when she snuggled up to me for a bedtime cuddle, looked me straight in the eyes and beamed the biggest (and possibly cheekiest) smile and whispered to me:

“I Love You Mummy! You’re the cutest and bestest mummy in the world! Tonight I’m going to wait til you’re asleep and then I’m going to cuddle up to you so you can sleep tight”

Tonight, even though tired mummy brain has a serious chance of success, she has inspired the assignment due brain, and I WILL get this assignment done – for her, for my other children but most of all for our FUTURE.  I will continue, and I will succeed!

Kids have an uncanny way of knowing what we need to hear and when – we NEED to listen to them, children can be the greatest medicine and inspiration we will ever know.  Our children are our future, our hope – if we neglect them, and don’t find time for them to just be with them and make them feel special, needed and wanted, what hope is there for the future…?

Can you imagine the future without the love of a child, without the trust of a child, without a child’s smile and their simple words that touch our hearts so powerfully – that’s not a future I want, so I will make time for them (any child that’s in my life) and make sure our future is full of hope!

But for tonight, I think that I will indulge the tired mummy brain, go to bed and wake up tomorrow ready for another day, awaiting the blessings that are our children 🙂

Peace and blessings to everyone x

Wow time has flown!

Firstly I want to apologise for not writing on here for ages – time really has flown by, it really doesn’t seem possible so much time has past, life is on fast-forward!

An update on my degree.  Well it’s almost the end of the 2nd year and my exam is on the 10th October, it’s coming up too fast, and I have got a fair bit of revision to do before then.  My assignment scores have been consistent and I’m on track for a 2:1 would be a first if I was at a ‘brick’ uni, but hey I’m doing well 🙂

It’s been the summer holidays, and I have been spending some amazing time with my children – we have completed lots of walks and seen some beautiful scenery.  We have been inspired and filled with love and laughter.

I’ve also started a healthy eating plan, as I am trying to lose some weight.  Over the holidays I have managed to lose almost 9lbs and 19 inches too 🙂  I feel so much better for losing the weight and hoping to lose another stone to bring me to the lower end of my ideal weight range.  This is in the hope that it will continue to reduce the pain in my joints and muscles and that I will have more energy to spend doing the things I love!

A bonus of changing the way I am eating, is that I have become much more aware of portion sizes and I have rekindled my love of cooking.  There have been some interesting (and very yummy) kitchen experiments as well as new favourite fruits and vegetables