16 Feb Chapter 1
A week before my 38th birthday, I woke up feeling like I had been hit by a bus. The only thing that got me out of bed was having to run to the loo to throw up. My thoughts were “get up, you’ll be fine. ...
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04 Jan Beach joy
It was the perfect beach afternoon. There was a cool breeze coming off the cold sea, mixed with the warm winds from the sand and mountains behind us. The beach was packed with people playing ball games and chatting happily with family and friends. There...
15 Jul The empty cup
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...
05 Jul Never let them see you run
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...
18 May Changing lanes
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...
13 Mar Is there still good?
Is there still good in this world when around me there are young families going through divorce, when a young father died of cancer and a mother of four died after years of fighting a terminal disease. Are there still good things when a friend...
17 Feb Ten minutes
Mom guilt is a real life thing and I feel like, for me, it’s got worse over the past year since our first lockdown and working from home has become the new normal. It’s like two worlds have blurred into one and it’s a fine...
02 Feb Be a beginner
Last week my son started reading. Actual words. I had one of those mom moments when I thought ‘how can we be here already?!’ as I listened to them learning the words with their teacher on the online Zoom class. We then had to practice...
26 Jan Planting what matters
For so long I’ve dreamed of having a herb and veggie garden. The kind like you see in the movies. The kind that I can walk out my kitchen door and pick fresh herbs for the risotto or leaves and veg for a lunchtime salad. ...
12 Jan Same, same but different
Have you gone through something you’ve gone through before, but it’s different somehow? Like when you order your favourite pizza toppings in a different restaurant and although the ingredients are exactly the same, it’s just not the same? Or when you arrive at your regular...