Everything is done in a hurry. Even I shower in a hurry. Perhaps that habit began because I didn’t want a sleeping baby—always one of them, for the past six years—to wake up and cry for too long while I was in the bathroom. That’s why I feel such relief now that I’ve consciously begun […]
EN . Mom
I am calmness
I am calmness. He poured a bottle of honey down the sink. I am calmness. He lay on top of his younger baby brother and then covered his head with a blanket. I am calmness. He put the block in the olive oil his older brother had poured on his plate. And the older brother […]
Right at the Beginning
While in Mozambique babies are still sometimes born in the bush or at home (without a midwife), it has taken me four weeks—and the help of several kind people—to prepare a place, tiny clothes, and what we believe we’ll need for our third little boy. And now I feel at peace. The hospital bag is […]
Known
I would like to be known for knowing Him. This has been my greatest desire for years. Although the last few years have been particularly poor in terms of time spent together, because I am a mother of two small children. And yet, despite all my inability, He is there. Close. Revealed in everyday life. […]
Helpless mom
I had to slow down. I stopped reading books to my children before bed. I burned dinner. I stopped weaning Francis. It was hard for me to change his diaper because I had to cope without carrying a fourteen-kilo two-year-old. We didn’t have preschool classes with Joseph once this week. I let the children paint […]
Moderation for us
As a child, I collected stickers from Turbo chewing gums. I remember my mother giving me 5 cents and I would go to the shop next to our home to buy one. I remember that on the day of the big holiday I got Coca-Cola in a returnable glass bottle and salty sticks. I would […]
A sense of guilt
It appears every time I see their difficult behavior. I can even explain the situation to myself in various ways, but regardless of the results of the analyses, this small part stays with me. A part of the reason. A part of the non-obvious beginning. Guilt. My fault. The feeling that my children behave this […]