I do my best thinking when I am walking. It seems so cruel that I feel at my most creative when I don't have an opportunity to record it and I often compose whole blog posts in my head that I cannot recreate at all when I finally put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard. This is one of those.
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After two years and three months of recording our lives, I thought I would explain why I called my little space on the internet 'The Mummy Adventure'. I have touched on it in the past, but I wanted to try and put into words the thought behind the name.
I don't think being a mother is a job. I don't see it as a role or an occupation. I see motherhood as a journey, an adventure. It doesn't matter if your child was planned and longed for or a careless accident after a few too many tequilas on a Friday night. It doesn't matter if it took 10 years of trying, hormone treatments and IVF or those two blue lines appeared completely unexpectedly. It doesn't matter if your child has your genetics or not. That first time that you touch those tiny little fingers, the first time you see those ten precious toes, the first time you hear those little lungs announcing his arrival, that is the very first day.
