The Mumsnet Secret Santa has been going for several years now. It was started by members as a way of thanking others who had helped them but also as a way helping others. Along with a Mile for Maude and the MN Woolly Hugs, it is the real side of Mumsnet: women supporting women. It is the real meaning of sisterhood.
I was honoured this year by being nominated. It is such an incredible feeling to be nominated; to be thanked for helping someone else. It is a beautiful feeling.
Over the years, I've had the pleasure of nominating other women who have supported me through my PND and my crisis of confidence following some rather misogynistic twaddle with my career. I am so lucky to be surrounded by some amazing women.
We need to start telling each other how amazing we are.
We need to start doing so publicly and loudly.
This year, my Secret Santa sent me an Amazon giftcard. I spent several happy hours downloading some amazing books onto my kindle. Obviously only books written by women:
Lola Shoneyin's The Secret Lives of Baba Segi's Wives
Carol Shield's The Stone Diaries
Andrea Levy's Fruit of the Lemon
Andrea Levy's Never Far From Nowhere
Aminatta Forna's The Ancestor Stones
Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows
Thank you My Secret Nominator.
Thank you to my Secret Santa.
And, thank you to all the amazing women in my life. :)
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