If you’re a mama in the thick of raising little (or not-so-little) ones—possibly juggling school/home education, work, meal prep, housework, and all the emotional labour that comes with motherhood —you’re...
Toddlers. I’m sure there are a thousand memes about toddlers, tantrums and surviving them. I’ve done these years 4 times already… though no two children are ever the same. I’m...
I was sat with friends the other day, chatting about this and that and everything in between. We ended up talking about taking time out/off/for ourselves, and how everyone has...
Saturday saw my eldest daughter turn 18. 18!!! I managed to raise an actual adult. As I sat writing her card the night before her birthday, I was struck with...
Kiddos thrive on connection and attention. With only one child, that’s easy to figure out – when I had just one, we had so much time just the two of...
One thing I’ve learned over my sixteen years of parenting is that I have to remember to be kinder to myself. Especially when I’m pregnant and have just had a...
I’ve been fighting a battle with myself the last couple of weeks, getting annoyed that I can’t physically keep up the pace, and also that mentally I just haven’t got...
It was late afternoon, there was fresh Banana Bread not long out of the oven {I constantly seem to be baking banana bread, one because we always end up with...
Yesterday was one of *those* days. I woke up too early, tired, naggy, hormonal and just not really feeling it. I’d just poured a cup of tea when Beastie woke...
It’s the middle of the afternoon, I’m sitting on the sofa with my three-year-old, fighting the urge to sleep. I’m sick… both of us are, but he is fairing better...
This week has been one of those weeks. The ones when the kids won’t stop arguing, you’re a huge hormonal, emotional mess, you’re super tired and stressed and everything seems too...
As I’m writing this, it’s Saturday night. My husband is at work, the littlest two asleep, the bigger two in their beds reading. I’ve been busy all day, ‘Autumn Cleaning’...
Summer is finally here, we’re wrapping up a few homeschool projects and the like before we head fully into summer mode. While obviously we’re not tied to school holidays, we...