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...
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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...
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...
How rocking your baby to sleep counts as meditation
“We can't go over it We can't go under it We're just going to have to go through it” (from the song, 'We're going on a bear hunt' I spent...
The look of love
09.03.15 The day I became a mother, after an epic labour, hopes for a homebirth dashed with a transfer to the Coombe, 12 hours of...
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...
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...
Be in love with your life
"Be in love with your life" I read this quote recently, and it got me thinking. How do you fall in love with your life in a time when the...
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?
How to ditch the "shoulds"
What are your "shoulds"? A little exercise to tease out what drives them, and which "shoulds" you can let go of.
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.
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?
A parent and toddler group might save your sanity
Is there a parent and toddler group group near you? When I moved house, a local group became an unexpected highlight in my calendar!
Why I don't keep a gratitude journal
For many years I railed against the idea of gratitude journals and the like. Until I found a way to make it work for me.
I don't remember my child's first word
Do you remember what your little one's first word was? Somebody asked me and I drew a blank. Two years of broken sleep will do that.
10 tips on parenting alone while your partner's away
Parenting alone while my husband was away for work, I discovered a few tips to make it through with my sanity intact!
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