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Living in the Tension

wanderings through motherhood and creativity

Category: Motherhood

Window//06Jan2020

Long, lanky legs. Pointy shoulder blades. Teeth that look too big for your mouth. Stretching like a beanstalk every few weeks. My boys’  frame is changing. It is developing faster and faster, and sometimes it feels like a race to keep up. To keep up with the need for forever bigger clothes; for fast changing… Read More Window//06Jan2020

February 20, 2020February 20, 2020 Rebecca H2 Comments

The Smell of Lavender//02Feb2019

I can teach you about the smell of lavender when you brush it against your hand. I can teach you about the life cycle of a butterfly. I can teach you how to tie your shoe laces and brush your teeth: under, over; back and forth. I can teach you how to plant a seed… Read More The Smell of Lavender//02Feb2019

March 11, 2019 Rebecca H2 Comments

Physicality//10May2018

My back gave up on me this week. It’s been threatening to for a while. I think six years of constantly carrying one small child or another on my left hip finally caught up on me. The straw that broke this camel’s back was a ‘fun walk in the sun over the hill’ with the… Read More Physicality//10May2018

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Pointy Elbows//21Feb2018

* My first post of 2018 is a little late, but winter hibernation has dragged on for a while for me this year. Like the daffodils feel the pull of the sun, I am starting to feel the pull of the creative again too. I sit in the dark with Littlest on my lap as… Read More Pointy Elbows//21Feb2018

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Seeking Out The Light//12Nov2017

I find myself seeking out the little pools of autumn light around the house. I sink into them and bathe like a lizard, absorbing all the warmth and goodness from the sun in the knowledge that winter, and increasing darkness, will soon be upon us. Like a squirrel I am storing up this light in… Read More Seeking Out The Light//12Nov2017

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A Soft Heart//16Mar2015

I need to provide an introduction for this piece of writing. It is something I wrote several years ago and I have thought and thought for a long time about whether to put it on here. This piece of writing is from a period in my life where I was struggling with the really challenging… Read More A Soft Heart//16Mar2015

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Acorn//19Sep2016

Little boy in red stands on the doorstep. Fresh-faced but unaware of what is ahead. Book-bag clutched in a clammy hand and full of nothing but potential. We have arrived at this moment. A milestone I have been crawling to for some time now. Some days I have crawled through mud and across glass to… Read More Acorn//19Sep2016

September 6, 2017September 6, 2017 Rebecca H1 Comment

Waiting Area 2//12Feb2016

[Notes from a Creative/Mother of three on the surprise gift of time: Squeezing creative space out of scraps of the day.] As I sit, surrounded by biege walls, shoulder to shoulder with other mothers-to-be, bellies swollen and rings tight on fingers, I hear the sighs. The huffs and puffs. The groans of people wanting to… Read More Waiting Area 2//12Feb2016

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Idiot Mummy//15Jun2017

“Idiot Mummy!!” “I – D – I – O – T Mummy, argggghhh!!” Middle Child screams at me. She is bent at the knees; arms pushed out behind her like she is about to take off; chin and mouth jutting out like a wolf howling its battle cry at the moon; face contorted like she’s… Read More Idiot Mummy//15Jun2017

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Velvet Head//10Jun2017

Your velvet head drops against my chest. Milk-full. Soap-fresh. Your little limbs have pounded out another day. So keen to join in with the others. To keep up with the pace. To not be left out. Your heart and mind must work in overdrive compared to my firstborn when it was only him. So much… Read More Velvet Head//10Jun2017

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