Loving and Leaving: The challenges of childcare
My baby boy is joy. He is dancing eyes, mischievous cackles, steady hands and knees making a break for it up the stairs when I’m not...
top of page
BLOG
musings, attempts at advice, stories, inspiration, some deep thoughts and maybe even humour
The lost daughter
(Be warned- major spoilers here) There was a point in watching the film version of Elena Ferrante's Book - The Lost Daughter, where I...
Why you will fail at parenting
Inspired by Alain de Botton’s essay “Why you will marry the wrong person” It’s one of the things we are most afraid might happen. We go...
Escaping and baking
I like to bake, but I do it to escape. I bake bread, muffins (the sweet and savoury kind), apple pies, crumbles and cookies. I bake sugar...
The hardest part of a spouse traveling for work
My husband. I love you. When you are working away our house doesn’t quite feel like home; our family is incomplete. I yearn for your...
I want another baby… if hormones could talk
Moments after my second baby was born, still high on a powerful cocktail of endorphins and oxytocin. Elation and love from the birth I so...
The other kind of emergency plan you need right now
What's your emergency plan? You know, the go-to actions for when life gets really challenging. The things you do to ward off a descent...
You don’t have to be a writer to journal
True. You don’t need eloquent words, fancy (or even legible) handwriting. You don’t need a beautiful notebook (in fact better if it’s...
The mom-rage is real (and it’s not just the moms)
Sometimes you need permission from someone else to say the thing that weighs upon you. A dad I know said he understood how people...
LOVE.YOUR.BODY
A body The joy it has brought me (if "it" and "me" can be bringer and receiver of things) A home for my children; first in belly then, in...
How to care for your unique self
A friend asked me about self-care this week, and I wanted to share with her a few self-care activities or rituals, but I found myself...
My shining stars of the pandemic
The pandemic was less dramatic than the ones of the big screen. The days full of monotony instead of panic. My shining stars?
The life changing magic of tidying up after your kids
It never ends this housework. But why should it? The house keeps working, the family keeps moving.
Working remotely? How to create some mental space between "work" and "home".
Some easy ways to signal transitions between work and home life. Important now that many of us as working from home.
Need some calm in the middle of your chaos? Then I need you!
Excited (and a little nervous) to announce my online course "Calm in the chaos"- the first one, will start on on 6th April 2020!
What's your magic number?
I've been pondering the question of how many kids is the 'right' number of kids? Or how do you even know what the 'right' number for you is?
It's just a phase so don't miss it
“I want to stay with you guys for ever and ever. When I’m a grown-up. Even on Tuesdays and Thursdays”
A poem for parents- Desiderata
GO PLACIDLY amid the piles of washing and the food smushed into the kitchen floor ...
Yes, the relationship needs baby-proofing too
Nothing could have prepared me for the challenges to our relationship wrought by sleep deprivation, the erosion of me-time (his and mine).
Beating the need to stay up past your bedtime to get your 'me time'
Those precious hours between baby bedtime and mama bedtime fly by, don't they? So how DO you get your me-time in before you're exhausted?
bottom of page