Gosh, there is just so much heaviness around us at the moment, in the world and in our beautiful country. This inevitably spills over into our homes and it’s often the moms who feel this pressure the most. So, this post is a bit of encouragement for...
It was 2:30pm. I found them in the TV lounge. Again. For the third time today, after telling them about 300 times that there was to be no more TV until evening. Just a few moments before, they’d been building forts at the back of...
Two weeks into maternity leave - away from the office, offline from clients and deliverables. Since my last Teams call, we’ve welcomed a new little human to our tribe. A human that came from my body, after baking there for 39 weeks. It is an incredible privilege to...
I so clearly remember the moment I became a mother. I had never changed a nappy before and had never even held a newborn. There were so many things that I was afraid of and felt so unprepared for, but in those first few hours...
"I love you, mommy" are four words that can make you melt like butter inside. They can make your heart feel like it might explode with love. They can make you break down in tears. They can make you feel that everything...
Motherhood can be totally overwhelming. The responsibilities are endless and it's a continuous roll of meals (with a lot of effort in the preparation, very rarely appreciated by the little one consuming the end product!) and sleep times, dressing and undressing, playing trains and dolls...
Once upon a time, we had dinner parties until after midnight and slept in until after eight the next morning to find many more empty bottles of wine than we thought we'd consumed. Once upon a time, we went on long runs five times a...
It has been a particularly bad week at work. A number of tight deadlines all happening at once, causing very early mornings after very late nights, with too much coffee and chocolate to get me through. The nature of my line of work is that...
I've been back at work for two weeks now, after an extended maternity leave of eight months. In these two weeks I can't count the number of times I've been asked "was it difficult to leave your children at home?", "are you doing ok?", "don't...
We have just finished a weekend of some serious spring cleaning and it feels so good! It somehow feels as though order has been restored, equilibrium found, even though there is still much more to be done. There is no doubt that I am an...