Please welcome children’s/YA author and poet Robbie Cheadle to the series with four of her posts from the archives. Apart from her creative writing, Robbie is also a fabulous baker and you will enjoy visiting her online bakery For her first post Robbie shares a poem that she wrote at Christmas.
Our Mother by Robbie Cheadle
This time of the year is all about family. In keeping with the spirit of Christmas, I decided to post this short poem which I wrote as a tribute to my Mother. My Mother is a most amazing woman. My Father died when I was three months old and my Mother decided she needed a change. She packed up her belongings and her tiny child and set sail for South Africa. In South Africa she met and married my stepfather and established a lovely home. All four of her daughters adore her, are close to her, and have grown up to lead successful lives with their own homes, careers and families. We love you Mom.
Our Mother
There she sits, small, and yet so tough;
Always ready to tell us when enough is enough;
Our number one fan when things go well;
Always there to help us up, when down we fell;
Her home cooked meals are a delightful thought;
As are the important messages which, to us, she taught;
The best ways to get a cake to rise;
Never to tell our friends or family lies;
How to eat nicely with a fork and knife;
How a little kindness goes a long way in life;
Amazing mom, we are blessed to have you near;
As you are the person we hold most dear.
©Robbie Cheadle
About Robbie Cheadle
Robbie Cheadle was born in London in the United Kingdom. Her father died when she was three months old and her mother immigrated to South Africa with her tiny baby girl. Robbie has lived in Johannesburg, George and Cape Town in South Africa and attended fourteen different schools. This gave her lots of opportunities to meet new people and learn lots of social skills as she was frequently “the new girl”.
Robbie is a qualified Chartered Accountant and specialises in corporate finance with a specific interest in listed entities and stock markets. Robbie has written a number of publications on listing equities and debt instruments in Africa and foreign direct investment into Africa.
Robbie is married to Terence Cheadle and they have two lovely boys, Gregory and Michael. Michael (aged 11) is the co-author of the Sir Chocolate series of books and attends school in Johannesburg. Gregory (aged 14) is an avid reader and assists Robbie and Michael with filming and editing their YouTube videos and editing their books.
A selection of books by Robbie Cheadle
One of the recent reviews for While the Bombs Fell
What a lovely, poignant book! It’s the only one I’ve read that describes what life was like for very young children growing up during World War Two. There is also quite a bit of English history included, which I found quite interesting. The wartime recipes are a nice touch.
It’s told from the perspective of a girl aged 4-6 years old, and focuses mainly on the daily life of kids living through horrendous times, without truly understanding what was going on in the adult world. Many of the stories told reminded me of my Dutch father-in-law’s descriptions of growing up during WWII in the Netherlands.
It’s appropriate for young children as well as young readers. Fascinating read.
Read all the reviews and buy the books:https://www.amazon.com/Robbie-Cheadle/e/B01N9J62GQ
And on Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Robbie-Cheadle/e/B01N9J62GQ
Read more reviews and follow Robbie on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/15584446.Robbie_Cheadle
Connect to Robbie Cheadle
Blog: https://robbiesinspiration.wordpress.com/
Website: https://bakeandwrite.co.za/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SirChocolateBooks/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bakeandwrite
Thank you to Robbie for this lovely post from her archives and if you would like to share your stories about family, including our fur babies.. then please take a look at the details.
Posts from Your Archives and the theme this time is all about family.
- Personal memories of childhood or teens that are still fresh in your mind.
- Family history, stories of your parents, grandparents and further back if you can.
- Fur family past and present.
- Favourite recipes.
- Memorable holidays.
- Places you have lived.
- Memorable homes you have lived in.
- Grandchildren tales.
- Any family related post – education, health, teen years, elderly care, lifestyle.
- Please remember that there are some younger readers who visit.
I think you get the idea.
The aim of this series is to showcase your blog and any creative work that you do from books, art, photography and crafts. You pick between one and four links to posts that you have written for your own blog from the day you started up to December 2018, and you simply send the link to those blogs to sally.cronin@moyhill.com
You have to do nothing more as I will capture the post and images from your blog and I will then post with full copyright to you.. with your creative work and your links to buy and to connect. I might sometimes need a little more information but I am quite resourceful in finding out everything I need.
So far in the Posts from Your Archives from September 2017, there have been over 700 posts from 200 + bloggers that have reached a different audience and encouraged more readers for their own blogs and current posts.
The only issue is the number of photographs and if there are more than five photographs in the post I will do a reblog rather than a separate post. (Media space)
Previous participants are more than welcome
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Loving tribute from a loving daughter to a lovely woman!
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Quite…. xxx
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Thank you, Annette
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Thank you for sharing this post, Sally 🤗. I will reblog tomorrow.
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Delighted to share Robbie..hugsx
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Wow, she was a brave lady, Robbie! This is a beautiful tribute to her. I’m sure she’s very proud of you {{hugs}}
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Thank you, Jacquie. My mother is a fighter and a survivor.
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A lovely tribute, Robbie.
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Thank you, Stevie
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Nice share Sally. This is a touching tribute and story Robbie. It sounds like you’ve found your place in the world.
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Thanks for commenting.. it is a lovely poem.
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Agreed.
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I am very fortunate to be so close to all my family, my three sisters, in laws and parents. Thank you, Brad.
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You’re welcome Robbie. ❤
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Just beautiful, Robbie! ❤ A wonderful share from the Archives, Sally.
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Thanks Bette.. I agree.. hugs ♥
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Thank you so much, Bette. I hope your new book is coming along well.
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Thanks, Robbie. It’s quite an adventure, since I’m including 48 of my own photos along with the 150 haiku verses and am purchasing my own ISBNs and must learn the IngramSparks as well as the new KDP procedures for publishing. 🙂 Have a beautiful weekend, my friend! xo
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Beautiful tribute to your mother Robbie. You are blessed to have such a wonderful mom. 🙂
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Thank you, Debby. I am very fortunate to have a wonderful family.
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You have an amazing mom Robbie! Fabulous tribute to her love. Thanks for sharing.
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Thank you, Balroop. When I was younger, I thought everyone had a lovely home like I did. Of course now, I know how lucky I was and still am.
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Reblogged this on Robbie's inspiration and commented:
Sally Cronin has kindly shared a poem I wrote about my mother as part of her posts from the archives series. Thank you, Sally!
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Terrific poem Robbie and lovely to have your posts to share.. hugsx
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This is such a touching poem of tribute to your mother, Robbie. Your mother is tough outside but soft and loving inside (and out too). Tough love is hard to do, I find is hard to be tough, so I think your mother knows how to love and raise loving daughter like you. A lovely poem.
Thank you Sally for sharing!! ❤ ❤
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Thanks Miriam..♥
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You’re welcome, Sally! (Good night <3)
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Thank you for your lovely comment, Miriam. I have had to practice a bit of tough love with my boys too. They get into bad habits of complaining about their health and not wanting to go to school after their spells of being sick. I have to make them re-enter life when they are ready.
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I know, Robbie. I scolded Mercy really hard once and I still feel bad about that, but she doesn’t even remember what happened.
Our school nurse only send the students home when they have a fever of 100 temperature.
Mercy had bad asthma, her pediatrician said it was okay to send her to school.
I had a lot to learn about parenting also.
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Sally, you have done a great share in introducing Robbie to us. I already follow her work
on WordPress but you have given so much more of the history that created this lovely
woman and authour.
Robbie, your poem to your mum is so filled of love and admiration. It is a richness to have
a mother like that and I am also lucky that way.
🤗 .
Miriam
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Thank you Miriam.. always delighted to showcase wonderful talent.. hugsx
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Thank you, Miriam, for your lovely comment. I am delighted that you like this poem. We are very fortunate to have such wonderful mothers. Have a lovely weekend.
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Beautiful, Robbie. ♥
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Thank you, Olga.
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Thank you for sharing this wonderful poem, Robbie and Sally! Its true, mothers are ours doors into this world, and this honour to your mother is amazing, Robbie! Best wishes, Michael
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Thanks Michael..hugsx
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Thank you too, Sally! Sorry for a shortime black out. We have a paperless office, but i never thought there could be the need working on a bulk of electronic documents too, all at once. 😉 Best wishes, Michael
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Thank you, Michael. I like what you said mother’s are our doors into this world as they teach us everything we know about life. Have a lovely weekend, Michael, and I hope the weather has improved.
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You too, Robbie! Oh, the weather. 😉 Snow is away, coldness is back. Before May here is no warm weather. We cant change. 😉 Michael
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Wonderful Robbie like mother like daughter 💜
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Thank you, Willow
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What a beautiful poem and tribute to Robbie’s mom. Some moms are so strong in their love and guidance. I hope she’d smiled at this poem. 🙂
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I am sure that she did Diana.. a lovely family. ♥
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Thank you, Diana. This poem was included in a homemade book gift for Mothers Day which included homemake cards from each of her grandchildren.
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Aww. What a wonderful gift! I’ll bet her heart was filled to overflowing. ❤
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A lovely tribute to your Mother, Robbie.
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This was a lovely tribute to your Mother!
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A perfect poem for your mother, Robbie! You, like me, are very fortunate to have her.
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Thanks Darlene..hugs
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