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Tag Archives: motherhoodBeing mum“Time is how you spend your love.” ― Zadie Smith The morning I found out I was pregnant I had a killer hangover. IView full post » practicing in publicI often talk to people about the pressure for perfection. I experience it every day in the landscape of my own mind.View full post » Define meOne of the first questions I am asked whenever I meet someone is, ‘what do you do (as a profession)?’View full post » The myth of no time.We live in a world obsessed with time. Obsessed. Everything has been streamlined and automated. Everything has beenView full post » Mothers.My mother and her three. “Making the decision to have a child – it’s momentous. It is to decideView full post » The Aesthetics of Maternity…Do you read “those” blogs? I do. You know the ones I mean. The BEAUTIFUL ones. Where every photo is styledView full post » Women and Babies…Making babies is a right of passage for a woman. In past lives we would have gathered together around the birth of aView full post » Embracing the now.Most of us were raised in a culture where we are taught to dream big, chase success, work hard move forward. This isView full post » Dear Bo,14th February 2012, 4:36pm My Bo, This is a picture of me. It is also a picture of you. It is the very first picture ofView full post » Breaking the silence: On being a single parent.My husband had an affair, but long before he did this he made choices that kept him away from us. Right from the veryView full post » The privilege of being a parent…One of the many wonderful privileges of being a parent is watching new skills form, watching your child grow and changeView full post » This ring is round it has no end, and that’s how long you’ll be my friend.A friend of mine wrote this title in my end-of-year friendship book (did you have one of those? I still have mine)View full post » Breaking the silence: On motherhood.When I think about the way that our society expects us to parent, I am surprised. Surprised that there aren’tView full post » Peace out mama… I was just messing with ya.So it would seem my baby is no longer a baby. She is a havoc-wreaking, hellish toddler already… hiding things inView full post » Him and me and baby makes three…It’s been a weird few days since Ni arrived, I haven’t written about it yet because I still don’tView full post » Don’t hate the haters… hate the game.In this past week I lost something that is (was) to me a safe place. Yes it may have been on the internet… andView full post » Open for transformation.Today I look in the mirror and this is what I see. I see age where before there was only youth. I see exhaustion andView full post » Being great… and admitting it.It has been a very hard few weeks. Months. Year. I have struggled. I still struggle. Searching for a peace within itView full post » Got shot(s)…The entire predominant reason for our semi-regular jaunts back to Aussie-land is to get Bo’s vaccinations. ToView full post » Mama babble and a salad of words.I have lost the ability to communicate with words.You know, the kind of words that come out of your mouth? I hear thatView full post » Rock the boat baby.I’m all for political correctness (when it comes to being respectful of other people – the rest of it IView full post » This village life…For the past few weeks we have just settled into a pretty simple, sleepless routine. Bo gave up sleeping over a monthView full post » Dear Bo,Dear Bo, Today you are six months old. The past six months seem to have flown by, but at the same time it feels likeView full post » On being a “beautiful” girl (or boy).Over a year ago now, Lisa Bloom wrote this very provocative piece on beauty, the female psyche and her opinion on howView full post » A Mama in Chile: Guest PostBlogging brings lots of different opportunities into my extremely lack-luster social life. I’ve been really luckyView full post » Looking inward for trust.I’ve been reading a lot about the natural parenting “movement” – I hate to call it a movementView full post » This village life…In the past two weeks Bo has probably been the biggest developmental leap of her little life so far. Two weeks ago sheView full post » On the move… Already?!Five months ago when we were patiently waiting for Bo’s grand arrival, we came to terms with one glaringlyView full post » The shape of a mother.I’ve been doing some research for a new blog-series I’m writing for an awesome maternity company.View full post » First foods: the gentle way.After our first unsuccessful encounter with Pear and Rice Cereal, we gave it a while before even venturing back intoView full post » 48 hours of darknessIt’s funny isn’t it, how we don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. It can be said ofView full post » Little feet. Gigantic Shoes.I have a habit of setting unreasonable goals for myself and becoming distressed disappointed when I fail to live up toView full post » That moment when you realise you know nothing at all.It was about this moment that I realised… I know nothing. I was a determined teenager. I moved out of home at 16.View full post » What-it-would-be-like-if [we lived here] moments.I get homesick a lot when I’m away, but I get itchy feet when I stay too long. When I’m in the village (orView full post » Parenting labels… what’s the deal?I dont understand parenting labels. I don’t understand them at all. People say to me, oh so your an attachmentView full post » four months youngOur Bo at 18 hours old, before she even had a name of her own. I can’t believe my baby is four months old. ItView full post » Live InspiredI love to be inspired. There is nothing better than that moment where it feels like something has lit a fire deepView full post » Our birth story.I’ve spent many hours, days, months thinking about the day[s] that Bo made the journey into this world.View full post » Sometimes traveling really is JUST about the destination.I’ve always said that traveling is as much about the journey as it is about the destination. And most of theView full post » |