Blogger Profile: Tracy and Careful What You Wish For
By AndrewBoyd • Nov 11th, 2007 • Category: Aussie BloggerTracy writes Careful What You Wish For.
Tracy writes about her life - raising the wee man, living in the hills - lots of interesting stuff. I found her 10 things especially touching - her son coming along after so much trying. I think about the mother of my children and I, and reflect on our ease with the physical process of having children - although Julie might disagree, granted that it was a lot of hard work putting up with me sometimes both when I was home and when I was away with work. Then I read about Tracy’s experience and I nearly weep:
7. The wee man is a bit of a miracle child for myself and the Big Feller. In the last 6 years since we decided to start a family, we lost our first little boy Jack (a stillbirth at 32 weeks) and have had 8 miscarriages in total, some before and some after the wee man’s birth. And no-one can identify a reason for any of it!? BTW, please don’t feel sorry for us - these things do happen, and we’ve got our little miracle man when so many struggle to conceive at all. I’m so totally over it all now - I know the Big Feller still has a lingering dream of a little sibling for the wee man, but I am not interested in being pregnant again, and the last few times I fell, the idea of another baby just made me feel bone-tired. To all of you with big families, I take my hat off, and sweep a bow to your capability and necessary selflessness. I’m too selfish - I love my little guy (and the bigger kid, too!), but I’m only just beginning to scrape a little time for me out of my life and I need that to remain human and myself.
No wonder she loves the little guy.
Visit Tracy’s blog and her NaBloPoMo homepage.
AndrewBoyd is a consultant by day and blogger by night. He loves good food, good wine, and discussing faceted classification schemes with friends.
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Congratulations!
Thanks so much for a lovely review, and for your obvious caring…it’s genuinely nice to hear a bloke say he was close to tears (not that I was trying to make anyone cry, but you know what I mean!?).
Hi Tracy,
thank you for your comment and for writing stuff like that. I need to be reminded every now and then that I am a father - it is writing like this that helps me to remain human in amongst all the gung-ho business stuff.
Please write more.
Best regards, Andrew
Hi Andrew…
Now, we’re getting into the “thank you for your thank you’s”, which is always a Monty Python to me…buut I DID want to say thanks for that nice reply and encouragement, and also apologise that it’s taken so long to get back to you.
And the human touch nestling within the gung-ho business stuff?…that’s the essence of blogging right there, and the reason your work is so readable even for tech-ignorati like myself.
Stay human…
Tracy
Hi Tracy,
You are most welcome - I will break the endless cycle of thank-yous here but I am grateful for your comment
I’m almost tempted to slip in a thank you for the compliment there - being human is really important. Ironically, the comment came a day before my youngest daughter’s 16th birthday - which I totally forgot in amongst the consulting madness. Makes a bloke think.
Best regards, Andrew