This week meet South African mom blogger Angela, a widowed mum journeying through life with her little son Elijah Micah Rea, her “Rea” of sunshine. She blogs at Our Sunshine Journey.
1) What do you normally get up to on an average day? (Give us a brief description about yourself)
Hi I am Angie from http://www.oursunshinejourney.2) How do you feel about motherhood – what are your struggles and joys?
Motherhood did not come easily to me. I fell pregnant easily but could not retain the pregnancy. This went on for three years. I am so grateful for the amazing fertility clinic I attended who helped Darrell and I have our miracle baby. I am also so grateful to the love and support of my amazing husband who was with me every step of the way. Our journey to parenthood made us so extremely close, we both used to fall in love with each other more every single day. I love being a mummy. Especially Elijah’s mummy. He is a joy. What I do find extremely hard on an everyday basis is looking at his beautiful face and charming personality and thinking how much Darrell would have loved him now and how much Elijah would have just doted on his father. Before Darrell died he was very hands on which made his death all the more difficult.
3) Tell us about your kid(s)
Elijah is turning three at the end of September! Apart from being very cute to look at he is just a delight. He is so loving, kind and loves people. We cosleep and he wakes me up in the middle of the night whispering “I love you Mummy” in my ear. He is a real boys boy and loves to follow any worker, be it family or not, doing anything on my house with his own tool box helping them to fix things. His dad was very handy and Elijah has certainly inherited this from him.
4). How did you start blogging?
I have always loved writing and I thought writing my thoughts down would help me with this painful journey I am on. This and my photography are my food for my soul. They are helping to bring me back to life. I have a voice and I want people to hear it. I want everyone to know that each day is special and to love the ones around you.
5) Share with us a valuable blogging tip you’ve learnt. (or more)
Blog for yourself and not what you think other people want to read. Also be true to yourself and you can not go wrong.Have a theme for your blog and let your content reflect that.I am also very active on Instagram over here https://www.instagram.com/oursunshinejourney/ and Facebook over here https://www.facebook.com/OurSunshineJourney/ and I use these platforms to promote my blog.
Read this post on Angela’s blog: so poignant yet real: The seven and a half million stages of grief.
Angela, I can only respect you and the way you are dealing with your journey through blogging.
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Oh Angela….I am in tears after reading this post and your 7.5 million stages of grief post. So raw and real. My heart goes out to you. I’m 44 with a 3 year-old son who’s about to turn 4 so I could relate to so much of your life. Only, I’m fortunate to have my hubby still with us. He’s also a very involved, fun Dad. I wish I could create some alternate universe where I could offer my hubby’s fun-Dad services to your little guy so he could experience that. Come over for a playdate?
Thank you for sharing this. What a terribly tough challenge that has given me some perspective on my own. Just keep swimming.