Category: Letters to Ameli
Let Me Hold Your Hand
| April 25, 2013 | Posted by Luschka under Letters to Ameli, Motherhood, On Mama's Mind |
How long will it be, till you no longer reach for my hand? How long until dinosaurs and fairies no longer roam and you can face everything you fear on your own?
Under The Sea Birthday Party
| March 5, 2013 | Posted by Luschka under Food, How To:, Letters to Ameli, Mama Crafts, Milestone Moments, Moments To Remember, Motherhood, On Mama's Mind |
Aviya’s 1st birthday is just over a week away, and while knee-deep in preparations for it, I realised that with the mayhem and madness of visas and flying to Australia in October, I never posted the photos from Ameli’s 3rd birthday party. For her party we had an Under The Sea party at a Puck’s…
Remake Me
| August 30, 2012 | Posted by Luschka under Letters to Ameli, Letters to Squidgy, Motherhood, On Mama's Mind |
I realise with surprise, at times, that I am a mother, and that I have a child. No longer a baby, but a girl, a daughter. Daughters. The word catches in my throat, and my heart drops into the pit of my stomach where it knots, making my head spin. Like a player at a roulette…
Dear Ameli – Letter To A Big Sister (2 Years 6 Months)
| April 21, 2012 | Posted by Luschka under Letters to Ameli, Motherhood, On Mama's Mind |
Dear Ameli You, young lady, are the new benchmark for sisterhood in my world. You have surprised me, blown my expectations out the water and a few tough days aside, have made our transition from three to four so much easier than I thought it would be.
Dear Ameli – Letter To A 27 Month Old
| January 7, 2012 | Posted by Luschka under Letters to Ameli, On Mama's Mind |
Dear Ameli, Happy 27 months my girl. I was putting you down for a nap this afternoon and lying there, watching you I thought, “this is a kind of magic”. You had your one arm under my neck and the other on my waist and as you were drifting off you whispered, “Don’t leave me,…
Dear Ameli – Letter To A 26 Month Old
| December 6, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Letters to Ameli, On Mama's Mind |
Dear Ameli, You’re a proper two year old. People ask how old you are, and I say two, and I hate saying two because ‘two’ can be anywhere from two and one day, which is still my baby or two and 11 months, which seems so grown up. So when people ask, I say you…
Dear Ameli – Letter To A 25 Month Old
| November 4, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Letters to Ameli, On Mama's Mind |
Dear Ameli You’ve become a whole little person. Wilful, feisty, funny. You have strong opinions, and a strong will. You have shown me, this month, what trial looks like, and patience. I had an incredibly hard time, at the start of the month. I struggled to cope with what you were going through. You were…
Dear Ameli – Letter to A Two Year Old
| October 4, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Letters to Ameli, Milestone Moments, On Mama's Mind |
Dear Ameli I’ve started this letter to you so many times already, and keep deleting what I’ve written because what I’m writing just doesn’t quite match up to the intensity I’m feeling. This has been a full-on month in our story. You are two years old. We had a birthday party for you at home.…
Dear Ameli– Letter to a 23 month old
| September 4, 2011 | Posted by Luschka under Letters to Ameli, On Mama's Mind |
Hello beautiful girl. You are 23 months old! In just one month, you are going to be a two year old. I can’t even begin to tell you how that fact flabbergasts me. We’ve spent the last month in South Africa, and you’ve just blossomed. Aunty Deshaine saw you four weeks ago, and this week…
Hello beautiful girl.
You are 23 months old! In just one month, you are going to be a two year old. I can’t even begin to tell you how that fact flabbergasts me.
We’ve spent the last month in South Africa, and you’ve just blossomed. Aunty Deshaine saw you four weeks ago, and this week again and she can’t believe how much you’ve changed in just that time. You have new words, many of them, and your comprehension is phenomenal. You know what things mean – like if I say we’ll see aunty Desh on Monday, and you see her, you will ‘remind’ me, that it’s Monday and there’s aunty Desh. It’s amazing. You amaze me.
I guess being here, being played with, being in the sun, active and involved with the world around you has made a big impact, since you have been so much better at sleeping this month. You normally go down for a nap in the day, and at night there’s no fight about sleeping. It’s been wonderful. Refreshing, and wonderful.
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