My boys love sport, they love watching, they adore competition and they like exhilaration of winning.  There is nothing wrong with that in my eyes.  Both of the boys have been brought up to understand that if you give 100% and then lose, then that is great.  Winning is fantastic, but it is all about the effort you put in and about having fun.

Both of the boys are so inspired by the Olympics.  I am swept up on the wave with them.  We have medal charts and memory stones.  We are busy making a scrap book.  They play out with the other children and instead of being a famous footballer, they are Mo Farrar or Sir Chris Hoy.  They are inspired and the Olympics have introduced them to some bloody fantastic role models.  I know that the Paraolympics will do more of the same in spades.

Compeition is closed

Mini is currently sleeping with his Guinness Book of Records and wants one for the Olympics, so when I was offered a set of 3 Multimedia iBooks (books for iPads) from The Amazing People Club  about The Olympics and London, Amazing Olympians Volume 1,  Amazing Olympians Volume 2  and Amazing People of London I was delighted.

I also have a set of three books to give away to a reader of Mum in the Mad House.

To enter this fantastic competition and continue that Olympic magic with your children, please complete the Rafflecopter form below:

We may not have agreed on everything and over the years we certainly had our ups and down, but I did feel protected in her cape of mothers love.  She was there for me when I had my operations and held my hand through countless miscarriages and nightmares about dead babies when the last thing I wanted to do was close my eyes.  She was there for me when I spent most of Maxi’s pregnancy in hospital, traveling the 350 miles by bus to come and sit by my side in hospital for the week before he was born, even sleeping there.

Then I read Rosie Scribble’s post about being a good enough mother and it took me to the conversation that a group of blogging mums (Rosie, Peggy from Perfectly Happy Mum, Nova from Cherished my me and  Pippa from a Mothers Ramblings ) had at the weekend at a fab family event with Vosene family Values (more about that later) about being the right mother for our children.  I am a great believer that we provide the right love and the right environment for our children and if you ask them, they will tell you that you are the best mum in the whole wide world.

My mothers love is an echo of my own mothers love and I hope that it will perpetuate for generations to come.  When I am feeling like I am not a good enough mother, all I do is look at the chalk board in my kitchen for a gentle reminder.

]]> https://www.muminthemadhouse.com/there-is-no-one-way-to-be-a-perfect-mother/feed/ 15 https://www.muminthemadhouse.com/togetherness/ https://www.muminthemadhouse.com/togetherness/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 21:38:24 +0000 https://www.muminthemadhouse.com/?p=1134 If only we could be together, but we can’t, therefore, all I have are things and memories…..

I am trying to hold it all together at the moment without you.

The annual residents association “carols on the green” has had to be moved to the village church instead of our estate green tonight due to the amount of snow.

So world, please can we have a thaw and get rid of the masses of snow, pretty please.

Sound the trumpets

Beat the drums

Advent is when

Jesus comes