Funny Mummy

I love this quote from the author Jonathan Safran Foer: “You cannot protect yourself from sadness without also protecting yourself from happiness.’’ I believe this even extends further: you cannot protect yourself from pain without also protecting yourself from connection.

have any of you seen videos of baby goats in pyjamas???

to do this job properly, to really be there for somebody, to bring the light into the room, you have to do exactly the opposite of shutting down. You have to show up with an open heart. Every day.

However you do it, laughing out loud has got to be part of each and every day of your life. It’s non-negotiable. Make it happen. Trust me. I’m a (clown) doctor.

Dancing like nobody is watching. Especially when the kids are watching. And their friends are over.

The love of those who don’t put you on a pedestal. Those who know you’re good and bad. You’re wonderful and awful. You’re beautiful and ugly. They know all of that. And they would still give anything in the world to have one more moment with you.

It’s watching your peers without kids do all the festivals, all the touring and all the moving cities to grasp their careers with both hands, while you’re scouring the house to find a coloured shirt for ‘orange day’.

Josef Frankl’s ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’,

when people find out that I do this, one of the first things people say is ‘Oh my goodness, I could never do that, I’d get far too upset seeing the poor sick kids.’