09/05/2026
It's Mother's Day in NZ, and with this comes a mix of emotions, the deep missing of my mum, and the profoundly fabulous bond I share with my boys.
It's a thing called microchimerism.
I know some of you have significant disconnects with your adult children. I want to tell you that, no matter what, they remain deeply connected to you, your heart, cells, and soul.
Here is a wee blog on my thoughts of being a mum to adult sons.
My sons are 28 and 29 now. My Yorkshire boys… now Kiwis… but always forged in Sheffield steel.
There’s a kind of bond that doesn’t loosen just because time moves on. It doesn’t fade when children become men. It just changes shape, like steel being forged again and again into something even stronger. Even if you have a strained relationship with your kids, you are still deeply connected,...