Kids

  • Goodnight

    If I were a day you would both be my sun, sweet babies of mine sweet littlest loves. And when you were streaming from the sky of us, I would wish for the moonlight never to come. Continue reading

  • When I Grow Up

    When I grow up I am going to be a kid again. Continue reading

  • The Twelfth Day of Christmas

    On the twelfth day of Christmas, her sleeping babes warmed her heart from their beds. What joy might tomorrow bring for them, she wondered, remembering the magic of being a child on Christmas eve. She remembered lying in bed, listening… Continue reading

  • Home

    On the fifth day of Christmas my heart remembered it has another name. Home. Continue reading

  • Mary’s Boy Child. And Mine.

    On the first day of Christmas, all my Mum pieces melted into puddles of sun. It was the boy child who did it. ‘Mummy!’ he shouted, the moment he saw me smiling from my place in the front row… where I simply… Continue reading

  • Darling Day 29: Dance.

    Dinner time arrives and the darling of the day is yet to find me. Yet to whisper its sweet melody into my ready ear. But…wait. Darling, in an instant? Music blaring from the iPod dock. The story of my youth—… Continue reading

  • Darling Day 26. Days Like These

    Dear world—you’ve really gone and done it this time. Just look at all the sun-drenched wonder you’ve strung about my life today; I mean, really. What is it that you do to me? How is it that you fill my heart… Continue reading

  • Darling Day 21. The Rose Coloured Glasses

    Give me a rose to colour your glasses with. Not just any rose. A pink one. Painted with the darling of the happiest day. Doesn’t a pink world feel lovely? So rosy and sweet and soft. Like a kiss upon… Continue reading

  • Darling Day 15. The Truth About Lady and The Tramp

    I can’t believe it’s taken so long for the penny to drop. Jim Dear and Darling, from Lady and the Tramp, they are not as they seem. For my whole childhood—and in fact, right up until a few weeks ago… Continue reading

  • Darling Day 13. Happy Mothers Day

    To all the darling Mothers out there. To all the darling daughters. And all the darling sons. Happy Mothers day. Love, Brooke. xx   Continue reading