Insular Mummy

It can be lonely at home with Will sometimes, particularly when I don’t have an ‘outing’ planned for a specific day where I’m going to see people. I get so caught up in feeding, sterilising, trying to stop Will from scratching himself to smithereens, planning our next activity etc etc, that when Eddie comes home I find it hard to resurface and try to be a ‘normal’ grown-up again.

Sometimes I feel like I’m a bit of a robot, my life is divided into two hourly segments. Will is fantastic, he makes me laugh and we have such fun together, but every now and again I realise the enormity of the responsibility of having a child and it almost overwhelms me.

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Author: Louisa Houghton

Storyteller, writer, maverick. And much more.

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