by Jackie Bailey | Dec 9, 2019 | depression, funerals, hope, Interfaith, motherhood, Random insights, Taoism
If we become addicted to the external, our interiority will haunt us. We will become hungry with a hunger no image, person, or deed can still. – John O’Donohue[1] Something is missing I am married to a good man. I have a beautiful eight-year old daughter. I...
by Jackie Bailey | Oct 29, 2012 | Babies, motherhood
My arms and shoulders ache. I imagine it is from abandoning, deserting, throwing Moopet into the baby jail, behind the playpen bars of her new family day care place. Actually, my husband did the heavy lifting of Moopet into the playpen, as I have bronchitis –...
by Jackie Bailey | Jul 6, 2012 | Babies, motherhood
We had our first attempt at childcare today. In the morning, I was feeling a deep, echoing sort of sadness, the type of melancholy which threatens to gush up like an oil well, the deeps of which would make you a wealthy woman if you could trade in those sorts of...
by Jackie Bailey | Jul 3, 2012 | Babies, motherhood, Random insights
Bubba has now been street side of the belly for longer than she was inside. Still, I told her the other day, “I invented you.” But I could never have invented everything about her. It’s more than I could have imagined. We have been through a lot of...
by Jackie Bailey | Jun 15, 2012 | Babies, motherhood, Random insights
Nothing brings home the fact that you are moving house so well as checking the weather forecast for the place you are going to. This coming week in Wollongong, it will be a bit cloudy with some rain, and cooler than Sydney. Which I had forgotten. Here I am, in a room...
by Jackie Bailey | Jun 14, 2012 | Babies, motherhood
Today Ellie and I attended our last Crows Nest Mothers Group. At the risk of being a little sentimental, I wanted to say a bit of a good-bye. I have seen the babies in my mothers group grow from the size of poppets into fully fledged leprechauns, the type who would...
