Tag Archives: motherhood

Being 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 public

I 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 me

One 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 Post

Blogging 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 darkness

It’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 young

Our 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 Inspired

I 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 »