Kids, thanks for making me a mum - now please give me some space this Mother's Day

Kids, thanks for making me a mum - now please give me some space this Mother's Day AUTHOR’S NOTE: This has been written with some tongue-in-cheek humour, but we wanted to also acknowledge those who find Mother’s Day difficult – those who have lost mums, those who have difficult relationships with their mothers or children, those who are trying to become mums and those who cannot become mums. I love Mother’s Day, the pasta necklaces, sticky breakfast in bed and ‘love cards’ (as my daughter calls them). So, my darlings, thank you for making me a mother – now GTF out of my house and let me pretend I’m not one for a little bit. I have a lot of mixed feelings about being a parent: it’s something I absolutely adore and at the same time something that I feel has both added to and taken away from my identity. When I was first on maternity leave I was painfully aware that all I could talk about were my children. I had nothing else filling up my days, wasn’t (really) engaging in the outside...