Honest Motherhood Reflections

I have been a mum for a while now, but if motherhood has taught me anything, it is that no two chapters ever look the same. I became a mum at twenty five, newly married, living in our first home together. A house we were slowly renovating, learning as we went, figuring out how to be adults while raising a tiny human at the same time. It was exciting, exhausting and full of moments I did not realise I would one day look back on so deeply. My background is in education. I have

The invisible mental load of motherhood is not always about what we do.Sometimes it is about what we carry. For me, it has often been the weight of other people’s opinions. When my son was younger, I did not feel it as much. I had a background in education, and there seemed to be an unspoken expectation that because of that, my child would develop well, have the right skills and be “on track.” In a way, that assumption protected me. People trusted that I knew what I was doing