Just when you think you have life worked out, you become a grandparent and things get complicated again. Notwithstanding the exquisite joy that grandchildren deliver, there are quite a few challenges when adjusting to the role of Grand Parent. A whole new group of people enter your life, in the form of
It’s undoubtedly the most important expression in our language, yet we have crammed its many profound meanings into one little four-letter word – LOVE. Isn’t it amazing that such a complicated language as English would take such a simplistic approach to an emotion that has to power to send you into a state
“Please, will you just shut up,” I pleaded/yelled as all chaos broke out with four Goddesses all vying for my attention. This was my Grand crime. I imagined how my reputation with the neighbours as a dedicated Grandy had just gone down the gurgler. The Goddesses looked at me in shock. Grandy doesn’t
Enraging any mother is pretty easy. Just say something rotten about her kids and you’ll wish you were being gored by a bull or clawed by a bear – the pain would be less. This fierce protection starts in the womb and increases to a point of touchiness that would put a snowflake’s
Here is the true horror story set in some retirement villages in Australia. You may have read the fiction mystery set in a retirement village – Smiling Palms. Keeping with the theme of horror and mystery, I’m now disclosing some scary facts. It’s a terrible thought, but did you know your inheritance could
It’s no secret that children can often be our best teachers but it comes as a surprise that a five-month-old baby is teaching me something no one else has been able to. Our newest little Goddess is teaching me how to calm myself – from the inside out. Perhaps it helps she is
We are all born with a death sentence on our heads and though we understand this from a very young age, we spend our entire lives trying to ignore it and pretend it won’t happen. Scientists are frantically searching for the immortality pill as they come up with all kinds of anti-ageing potions
You can see glimpses…the cherub face contorts for seconds at a time giving you a preview of the hell to come. The tiny body stiffens, the voice gets louder and before you know it you are witnessing the massive meltdown indicative of the ‘terrible twos’. The thing is, many people coast through
LOVE IS NOT ENOUGH A friend recently admitted to me they were not happy in their (relatively new) relationship but couldn’t understand it because the love was so strong. How many times have you seen people feel this way? They are so full of love for each other, but in a relatively short time
Instead of striving to be the one who ‘wears the pants’ in the family, men should be donning the apron. Why? Because it’s sexy. Research, commissioned by the appliance brand Sunbeam, showed women get more turned on when their male partners are whipping up a cake, or making a cup of coffee than
