Mum Overboard

Dear Tired Mum, Photo by  Nathan Dumlao   I realised recently that there was something different about my husband. Was it his eyebrows? A new fragrance? His culinary charm? And then it came to me: he wasn’t asleep on the floor anymore.  For the last two years Zane has coped with torture-style sleep deprivation VERY well but with the unavoidable consequence of just nodding off whenever he stops moving.  This had become really normal; the kids use him as soft play when he falls asleep face down on the rug.   I’m happy to say that our dark days of extreme exhaustion are, for the most part, over and I’m writing to you Dear Tired Mum to comfort you with the details of how we arrived at this enviable destination. Firstly, I need you to understand how awful/terrible/torturous Ezra’s night-time sleep has been. I thought Elias (my first) was a bad sleeper.  He did the classic up five times a night thing but at about ten months, with a bit of encouragem

I had a quick theological question I'd like your ideas on if you wouldn't mind. Those of you who have read it and decided to remain Christians. So today I thought I best get on with teaching Elias some bible stories. I thought I'd start with Noah's Ark because after learning the story Elias could paint a rainbow, listen to a song, think about all the animals etc.  It'd be nice, I thought.  I was misguided.   Choosing Noah's Ark as the starting point for bible stories is a bit like choosing A Midsummer Night's Dream for a primary school production; it doesn't take long before you realise that what you thought was a kids' play is actually choc-a-bloc with sex, drugs and fairy-styled rock and roll. So back to the Ark - the story of the flood is actually entirely not child-friendly: God decides to wipe out all of the humans by drowning them to death; he floods the earth and then he sends a rainbow as a promise that he won't do it again