Daphne Bennett
I have done a thing.
Category: motherhood
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I painted this one on an A3 watercolour paper. I hadn’t bought any new ones at that time. And this piece of paper suffered from water damage. Cockled, that’s the new term I have just learnt. I have no idea when it happened. I hope I will do this one again. Because I don’t know…
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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…
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I made this drawing when my baby was still tiny, about 5 months old. Now he is 19 months. Still a baby, but a lot bigger and stronger. He is going through another growth spurt this week. He seems to eat quite a lot and nurse most of the time. He was not interested in…
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This is one of the drawings I did when I was pregnant. I am sure there is no quicker way to grow up than being parents. In retrospective, my husband and I seem to have turned into two completely different people after having Bertie. Like every new parent, we had a lot of false assumptions…
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