Now I’m the Mama of an adult…
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...
Tag: single parenting
An ode to clingy babies
I’m writing this sat on my bed, with my 20 month old toddler asleep on me. While he might not technically be a baby any longer {though he’ll always my...
On doing it all
The other day, I posted a photo on my Instagram. Alongside it, I talked about filling my own cup, in taking time to myself, and doing things that make me...
Parenting without a village
Rasising a family without a village can be an incredibly challenging part of parenthood
Time for a festive break
It’s been a funny year, in truth, it’s been a funny few years. One hell of a rollercoaster ride that is for sure. As 2019 draws to a close I’m...
Life, lately
Hi there! I have a brief five minutes, so thought I would pop in here and share a little. Life lately has been hectic. There isn’t much breathing space and...
The fourth trimester
Just like that, we’re out of the fourth trimester. These three months have flown by, yet at the same time some days have felt like twenty, and there have been...
Looking back
September the 11th will always mark the day that my world fell apart on me. I woke up this morning, and timehop showed me a blog post I wrote two...
This is {my} postpartum
I’m now ten weeks postpartum with my fifth baby. Thankfully, I’ve had a super easy recovery, and have felt pretty fantastic right since he was born. I’ve been lucky in...
Finding our way
It’s a Saturday morning as I sit and write this. We’ve been awake for a couple of hours, me and the littlest three. We’ve had pancakes, tea, I’ve showered, Beastie...
Seven weeks of single parenting with a newborn
Single parenting is hard. It’s a fact. There is no one to share the load with – physically or mentally. It’s down to you 24/7. There are no lie-ins. No...
Five Weeks
It’s kinda crazy that Oren has been Earthside for five weeks already. There were times when I was pregnant that I wondered how I would manage. With four older kiddos,...
Doing it alone – fear and anxiety at the end of this pregnancy
My doula messaged me this morning to see how I was holding up, and it was enough to tip me over the edge. The fear/anxiety has been there the whole...
Single and Pregnant
Being single and pregnant was never something that I saw coming, yet when it did, it was because I knew it was for the best. Having been a single parent...
Dear Bean – Week Twenty Five
Dear Bean 25 down, 15 to go {or thereabouts!}. Bean is getting wrigglier and wrigglier by the day, though ten pm seems to be his favourite time! Nothing much to...