Category: Motherhood and Parenting
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Magic Number 2
Last night I went to bed with butterflies in my stomach. This was the last night Peyton had as a one year old and I was remembering that wonderful night two years ago when I finally got to meet her. Today will be a quiet simple day at home, we have a little chocolate cake,…
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Roe vs Wade
My heart is broken. But this is not an article that is going to go into the depths of how wrong what is happening in the US is. I feel too raw right now to express this. This article is going to share my personal insight in why the right to abortion is important to…
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Don’t let the cold get you down!
The last two weeks have been pretty frustrating from a personal point of view. I had just gotten back on top of a few personal goals which as a stay at home, homeschooling mom of five can be pretty challenging. One of the goals I was pretty excited about was running. I explained in a…
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Activities to keep children entertained while you are unwell (or need a break)
This last week I have found myself in one of my most disliked scenario. Picture this: five kids, a mega cold, countless symptoms ranging from fever to vomiting, stopping by cough land and conjunctivitis stadium. It has been hard, we of course rounded all our poor little people to get PCR tested to know if…
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The Secret to Motherhood…
I am a mom to five wonderful children. I often hear “I don’t know how you do it!” or “You are such a laid back mom” which often send me feeling like a fraud because I rarely feel like “I am doing it” or like a “laid back mom”. The truth is motherhood has not…
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How to help children cope when the world feels unsafe.
Today, Thursday the 24th of February 2022 is a day that will go down in the History books. It is a scary day and there is a lot of uncertainty ahead. I don’t know how many people around the world feel it yet but I fear that we are about to see something far worse…
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Why I prioritise a cosy home life to holidays.
Everyone in life has different priorities when it comes to building their life, would it be how money is spent, which hours are spent towards career building or self caring. It is all perfectly fine so long as it makes you happy right? We are a pretty decent size family, there is seven of us…
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My Baby won’t sleep.
I find myself writing this at nearly half past one in the morning. My baby won’t sleep. Well, actually, she just fell asleep but it felt like it would not happen for hours and when it did it was at an ungodly hour of the night. This is tiring but it is not my first…
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Why holding the baby is not enough to give your wife/partner a break at home.
This is not an easy conversation for me to have with my husband. I know he and I need to improve communication on difficult subjects a little bit more but I feel like talking about how to effectively give time off for your partner or wife or primary parent is an important topic. Picture this…
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Ten things I have learnt in ten years of marriage.
Growing up I was not exposed to the healthiest of relationships; it made things tricky when navigating our marriage. We were kids when we got hitched, it was not a whirlwind fairytale, we had to make a lot of practical choices and I hope I do better for my kids when the time comes. This…
The Little Mermaid Now 