8 February 2025
Oh February, for decades the month of the ‘double birthday’ with two of my children celebrating their births on consecutive days! Until this year, the first one where neither of them is at home ….
One is is Nepal, one is is a University lab and both happy and well. Gifts and cards are sent and calls are made … nonetheless …
My social media feed lights up with ‘memories’ of parties past. Crowded tables of little children munching party food, smiling faces at local soft-play centres, and plenty of cakes and candles. Then to more recent times and the teenage years; thumping music, beer pong, disco balls, loud singing and that very same table groaning with alcohol.
And in the echoing silence of a house now empty of my three offspring, I feel a little forlorn …
Smashing Single Parenthood 