At loose ends........





At loose ends …


Being a mum is probably the best job in the world, Well for me anyway.
I grew up thinking that this was going to be easy you know?
Get pregnant, have a baby (easy) 
Get a husband (yeah right, who was I kidding?)
No one gives you a book with all the instructions, you just have to figure it all out yourself.
What the hell is happening to my body?
Why did I do this?
Why can’t I see my toes anymore?
Being a first time mum I was scared shirtless (computer won’t let me put what I wanted)
It was so weird! 
I had been a size 8 all of my life, then all of a sudden I wasn’t and it was like I had just eaten my former self.
Where did this fat person come from ?
I had to get clothes that would cover this enormous bump.

Now in my later years I've found that having my children grown up I was at a loose end and that I needed something to fill in my time.
Having always wanted to go to university to study art, I thought it was about time I got off my derrière and do something about it. 
My son who was 23 at the time told me about this course that helped people get into university and I figured that I needed all the help I could get so I did the TEP course.
It was great to be a mum and be a school at the same time as my son no less but little did I know I was going to be mum to the whole class.
I completed that and I passed ( Woo Hoo, go me ) I then received an early offer and off we go.
So now that I’m a university student on holidays (way to long by the way) I'm at a loose end AGAIN!!
My savior, along comes the writers festival and I thought well why the hell not?
So I signed up to do a short, Yet very enlightening course about writing.
Going to this festival I discovered that I was not alone as there were a lot of mums and dads too.
I felt excitement for this course, It was like the mums and dads had all the power over the four days and that grey hair was essential for It seemed to me that all the writers that had come to impart their knowledge and wisdom upon us, Had a head full of it.
So I guess in order to become a really great writer I will have to stop dying my hair.

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