Daphne Bennett

Now my daughter is nearly 2. I have been here before 5 years ago. The crying, the tantrum, the breastfeeding in the night. And hell! Another year until I send her to nursery. Things have been hard. But unlike last time, I know they do pass and more aspects of my life are in a better position.

Honestly, these days my sleep is so fragmented and I am dead tired.

Yesterday morning I got up before my son and husband with her. And she wanted to watch Shh! We Have A Plan on Vimeo. The opera is based on one of her (my) favourite books, Shh! We Have A Plan by Chris Haughton. And she wanted to play with the puppet shown on the English Touring Opera’s YouTube channel we learnt to make together, it’s not a toy for a toddler so it had been torn and broken multiple times. So I fixed the broken parts for her and she was happy for 10 minutes. Hence the picture.

Still she had thrown another 20 tantrums before 10am. But when days are difficult, I want to put those little happy moments in my sketch, because I want to remember them.