11th May 2014

It's Mother's Day in Australia so it was a day for my brother to remember mum. I hope he's ok, he's working a lot and his wife is away on business for another week. So silly me started looking through some old photos to scan and send to him. It got me all upset, especially finding the ones of her before my brother and I were born. I have hundreds of photos that I have taken before we had our girls; there are many, many of them, mostly of my friends. It made me realise how Mum didn't have the same thing when she was growing up. She never talked about any friends she had. Even when we were growing she never had anyone she could call or go out with. She missed out on so much and it upset me to think of her without any kind of friends in her life. We do so much with out friends. My girls know and love all my close friends. My friends totally spoil my girls. I can't ever imagine my life without all my friends in it. They have been a complete rock to me and keep me sane. My mum didn't have that and I think that's why she was never happy about me going out so much with my friends. She never liked me having them over to stay, she rarely let me have school friends over for dinner and she often used to tell me to shut up talking about them. I guess that's why I always encourage my girls to ask their friends over. As much as I love my girls, it's your friends you go to for advice and help on boys and love and other personal stuff that you don't want to talk to your parents about. I will always be there for them, and I will always protect them. But their friends will be the ones who understand them the most.