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1. What's your name?
Katherine.
2. Tell us something about yourself.
I am very opinionated but hate telling people things about myself, per se. Today I am jaundiced so some of these answers might change.
3. Tell us about your family.
Open to interpretation so I'll stick to the most immediate one... I am married - after a ten year engagement - to a Younger Man. We got married when Child - given name Timothy - was just over four years old. I am 49; Timmy has just turned six. It seems highly unlikely that he will have a sibling.
4. What do you enjoy most about being a mother?
Some of the same things which also drive me crazy, of course 8-D.
It's hard to describe; I'm delighted that I didn't end up trying to do, say, my doctorate and raising a child at the same time. I think it's the artistry of it all, the dance, the fluctuations of closeness and distance, the mindfulness required, and my son's sheer generosity of spirit, of life, which I enjoy most. Right now he's still loveydovey and cuddly, which is amazing. He is still very direct: "You have lovely breasts, Mummy".
5. What do you find hardest?
Losing my temper; still possessing a capacity for tuning into the wavelength of very severe post-natal depression I had for almost three years; and being part of a couple.
6. What do you know now that you wish someone had told you before you became a mother?
That - in the words of a 'comic' sign I saw in a shop in Minnesota about 40 years ago - "Things Take More Time Than They Do." That I would become a mobile bin. That breastfeeding would flaming well hurt, a lot, pretty much every time, and be a huge cause of anxiety. That other people would actively dislike me for taking trouble over my kid. That teachers would think I'm a total dimwit because I'm someone's mother. Oh, a lot of things.
7. If someone could wave a magic wand and give you one thing, what would it be?
Community of mind and spirit with my husband on the subject of raising Child. (I could learn more cheeriness from 'Im Indoors and he could learn more spiritual insight and practice from me.)
8. List three things you'd like me to include in the Interests list.
drawing; choral music; wtf goes *on* with males?
Katherine.
2. Tell us something about yourself.
I am very opinionated but hate telling people things about myself, per se. Today I am jaundiced so some of these answers might change.
3. Tell us about your family.
Open to interpretation so I'll stick to the most immediate one... I am married - after a ten year engagement - to a Younger Man. We got married when Child - given name Timothy - was just over four years old. I am 49; Timmy has just turned six. It seems highly unlikely that he will have a sibling.
4. What do you enjoy most about being a mother?
Some of the same things which also drive me crazy, of course 8-D.
It's hard to describe; I'm delighted that I didn't end up trying to do, say, my doctorate and raising a child at the same time. I think it's the artistry of it all, the dance, the fluctuations of closeness and distance, the mindfulness required, and my son's sheer generosity of spirit, of life, which I enjoy most. Right now he's still loveydovey and cuddly, which is amazing. He is still very direct: "You have lovely breasts, Mummy".
5. What do you find hardest?
Losing my temper; still possessing a capacity for tuning into the wavelength of very severe post-natal depression I had for almost three years; and being part of a couple.
6. What do you know now that you wish someone had told you before you became a mother?
That - in the words of a 'comic' sign I saw in a shop in Minnesota about 40 years ago - "Things Take More Time Than They Do." That I would become a mobile bin. That breastfeeding would flaming well hurt, a lot, pretty much every time, and be a huge cause of anxiety. That other people would actively dislike me for taking trouble over my kid. That teachers would think I'm a total dimwit because I'm someone's mother. Oh, a lot of things.
7. If someone could wave a magic wand and give you one thing, what would it be?
Community of mind and spirit with my husband on the subject of raising Child. (I could learn more cheeriness from 'Im Indoors and he could learn more spiritual insight and practice from me.)
8. List three things you'd like me to include in the Interests list.
drawing; choral music; wtf goes *on* with males?