One of those days

when I have about a billion blogpost ideas in my head, and probably enough time to write half of one.

Surprised I’ve only used that title once before too.

So let’s see, what’s the quickest and easiest post? Oddly, it isn’t a photo, as that requires attaching phone, finding photo, editing and uploading. The ones I upload direct from phone are too enormous for words and at some point I’m going to have to find a way of downloading them, batch editing (at which point I’ll add a watermark) and re-uploading without changing name or location so that I don’t have to go through fixing all the links. At some point. Not now.

It could be to use my needy tweet from early. It’s another insides/ outsides moment.

So here you go. I said

Sometimes I wonder how other ppl see me – fancy defining me in a tweet? #oddquestion #mayblogifigetanyanswers #needytonight

Lou from Bloggomy (aka Bobbity666) had first go. She said:

Helpful and thoughtful. Strong enough to stand up for something important to you.

Then Mamacrow joined in.

kind, clever, skilled, knowledgable, well read, funny, interesting, great writer, runner, determined, awesome mum + my friend

crap, forgot pretty + gorgeous. One tweet isnt enough!

bollockes. Add ‘generous’ as well please

And Michelle from Mummy from the Heart added

Caring, home-schooling earth mother who is a bit of a geek! #definedinatweet

I moved away from twitter for a while, and came back to a tweet from overwhelmed mum

Supermum, unstoppable but delicate underneath, brave & intelligent 🙂

Why did I need to read all this? Because sometimes I lack perspective. Sometimes I’m tired and all I can hear is the note in my voice that tells me I’m losing the plot. I’m not as patient as I want to be. I don’t explain, I snap. And instead of the home cooked meal I have planned, the washing up stacks up on the side and I end up buying fish and chips on the way home from the shops.

So I reach out for a bit of validation, and my friends don’t let me down. What I need to do though, is reach inside myself, and find those parts of me that they see, and let my children see them too.

(Thank you so much to those ppl who were there for me tonight. If you’d like to play along, either at me on twitter, or feel free to define me in a comment. Maybe some of your other friends would like to try it too?)