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It’s Not About You

January 1, 2021January 1, 2021 / iamlauriem / Leave a comment

Where to start at the end of the weirdest year that was? It's been many things but intense is the word that sums up my own personal 2020. So intense that I, personally, took to crying in carparks and rambling around the Burren rock a lot. Because that sense of intensity had very few outlets … Continue reading It’s Not About You

Other Kinds of Beauty – Like November

November 30, 2020November 30, 2020 / iamlauriem / 1 Comment

If you allow it, the lure of November is irresistable. Everything naturally quietens down and runs to earth. The darkness closes in and everything gets pared back. If you think the Burren looks luner in mid Summer, you should see it now. Further exposed, with the ash and hazel and hawthorn laid bare and the … Continue reading Other Kinds of Beauty – Like November

A Good Enough Mother

November 20, 2020 / iamlauriem / 6 Comments

I totally lost it the other morning. Flipped the lid. At my four year old. Why? Because she was being a normal four year old. It's a side of me I absolutely hate. If anybody saw me in the moments where I'm freaking out at my children I would be excruciatingly embarrassed because I know … Continue reading A Good Enough Mother

I’m Looking For The Rainbow

October 26, 2020October 27, 2020 / iamlauriem / Leave a comment

Lads! (Writer hushes and looks over her shoulder to make sure we have indeed made it). We’ve made it to mid-term. And though we are still in the middle of a colossal storm of utter crap, you or an adult near you may be that bit saner for having had the children back at school … Continue reading I’m Looking For The Rainbow

Connection Means That We Feel It All

October 12, 2020 / iamlauriem / 6 Comments

Have you ever had an existential crisis at the hairdressers? I'll be honest - I have one at least every two years. 2020 has been all about the little things. Little kindnesses, as my mother-in-law said the other day, that can turn your day around. Or even your week. Socially distanced chats at school pick-up, … Continue reading Connection Means That We Feel It All

Bonkers

August 18, 2020September 4, 2020 / iamlauriem / Leave a comment

I haven't gone bonkers in quite a while now. Well - at least not since my now sister-in-law's Hen Party where I went absolutely bonkers and got head-scratchingly lost in the mire that is Limerick City's grid area on my way home and complained at reception that my room was no longer on the floor … Continue reading Bonkers

That Bit More To Lose

July 21, 2020July 27, 2020 / iamlauriem / 2 Comments

I recently got to go home.  Home home, like.  To the place I've known all my life, where my father looked after everyone's breakfast and my mother looked after everyone's dinner and in between I drank hot coffee and saw some siblings and caught up with my best friends.  At last. It felt so good. … Continue reading That Bit More To Lose

All’s Fair In Love And Pest Control

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 / iamlauriem / Leave a comment

I spotted him approximately one mili-second before I might have stepped on him.  My wellington-ed foot barely avoiding direct contact.  A dead rat (I couldn't look away), a flat dead rat (I couldn't avoid the seeing), a fat flat dead rat just by the gate in the yard. Oh sweet divine.  I ushered the pup … Continue reading All’s Fair In Love And Pest Control

Nobody Wants To Cry At Work

June 27, 2020 / iamlauriem / Leave a comment

It's surely a sign of the times. I mean could I ever, in my weirdest dreams, have imagined that the small fella's junior infant year would be ended via group video call? Last September, having dropped him to big school for his first day, I lamented my having not cuddled him on my lap while … Continue reading Nobody Wants To Cry At Work

Owning Your Decisions

June 15, 2020 / iamlauriem / Leave a comment

Some time ago a writer I follow on instagram posted about doing some work - even though, as she said herself, her baby was only a few weeks old and she felt it a tad early to be dipping a toe back into work stuff. She said she felt passionately about new mothers who work … Continue reading Owning Your Decisions

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