Why did I settle on this name? Well first of all I’m definitely not a perfectionist, I’m more of a take a step and see what happens person. So although I did try out a lot of different names I decided this would do for now, time will tell if I stick with it.
Many years ago I had a blog called No Longer 25, when blogs were the thing on the internet. I named it on a whim as I started it just after I was 26, and it came to feel like mine.
So unravelling mother is something that feels right now. I was thinking about the aim of this site which is really a journal for me. I thought about untangling thoughts, or unravelling thoughts. I think the mother part is important because it’s a big part of who I am. But it’s also about unravelling me from who I am as a mother, who I am in my own right.
And it’s not just a positive term, there are definitely times when I feel like everything is unravelling, like I can’t hold it all together.
So my aim here it to consider my thoughts curiously. To notice when things are unravelling and also to unravel my thoughts one by one.
Journaling does help me clear my head and I’ve always enjoyed writing.
Names are funny things, when someone picks a baby name that seems odd to us initially over time it just becomes that person’s name. We had this with a friend who we felt gave their child a name that would be for a grown up, similarly to when people call a dog a name the same as a person you know, but a few month in we couldn’t imagine him being called anything else.
If you ever had a back up name for one of your kids then it’s probably similar. We could only ever agree on two names and thankfully used them us with just two kids.