Tuesday 16 April 2019. Day 95: As my 50th birthday is only weeks away, I cannot avoid looking back at my life so far. Family and friends know that I have spoken and written a lot about my life as a young single mum. Experiencing motherhood for the first time, aged 19, having been abandoned…
Wednesday 20 March 2019. Day 68: When I was young (to my mum, I still am) being 50 was one step away from the retirement home. In 50 days time, I will be 50 years old. As this new decade approaches, I can’t help looking back at previous significant birthdays and remembering where I was…
Monday 3 March 2019. Day 51: Since becoming aware three months ago that I am in the perimenopause stage of my life, I decided to start writing this journal in the hope that writing my thoughts and feelings would help me cope with this mid-life transition and to hopefully connect with other meno women. What…
Thursday 28 February 2019. Day 48: It’s been a couple of weeks since I last wrote a journal entry. Two reasons; Firstly, I only want to write about things that bother, excite or concern me; Secondly, I can’t be bothered or get excited about anything at the moment. I guess out of my list of…
Monday 11 February 2019. Day 31: In 1985, only the smart kids at my school did A-levels. I didn’t fit into that category, so it was either find a job or go to college. I chose college and enrolled in a two-year hairdressing course. I had the best two years of my education (I’d hated…
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Friday 8 February 2019. Day 28: I never needed much sleep; not as a baby, child or teenager. It would always take me an age to drift off, but once I was soundly in the land of nod, I usually stayed there until early morning, where I would wake feeling refreshed – definitely a lark.…
Thursday 24 January 2019. Day 12: I read an interesting blog today via Instagram written by a young woman who was a single parent (not by choice – the baby’s father quit when the baby was a month old). Her child is a toddler and she talked about how she had to move back home…
Sunday 20 January 2019. Day 8: Two months into the impending redundancy of my ovaries, the main offending symptom thus far is the internal central heating malfunction. During winter, I am always cold (actually, spring and autumn are too much on the cool side for my liking). My log burner can be glowing with its…
Wednesday 16 January 2019. Day 4: As an apparently capable woman, I am guilty of putting on a brave face to my family and friends, and in particular to my children, when the world appears to be falling down around me. I’m sure we can all think of an occasion when we were really scared,…
Not a literary genius, just a 50 year old single mum of two grown up children and one grandchild, writing my thoughts and feelings in between working and granny daycare whilst travelling through the next challenging part of my life. I look forward to sharing this journey with other mums, grandmas and women who are…
