When Anxiety Rears Its Ugly Head
Anxiety hit me in the gut today. After a long weekend of feeling relatively at ease and at peace with life, I was once again reminded how fragile we as humans can be. How our emotions can go from one extreme to the next, often with very little warning. And with no...
COVID-19 Taking Its Toll On Parent’s & Children’s Mental Health
Disclaimer: I have never, in my 8-year blogging history, shared a press release. And I receive dozens a week. But this topic is not only relevant to everyone, but written by someone with experience, background and desire to help our community deal with mental health...
21 Wonderful Ideas For 21 Days Of Lockdown
As our nations prepares for 21 days of lockdown in our attempts to flatten the curve against the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all thinking of ways we can not only survive the 21 days in isolation, but enjoy them. Here are some things to keep you and the kids busy and...
Heart Stretched Open
I don't think I have ever felt so stretched emotionally in all my life. I don't think I have ever felt two such extreme emotions, as far as my children are concerned anyway. I guess that's what happens when your youngest is 2 and your eldest is 9. There are so many...
To All Your Firsts My Brave & Beautiful Daughter
Motherhood is a bazaar rollercoaster of experiences for the most part. Nothing can really prepare you for the challenging and heartbreaking times, the times where you just feel so out of your depth and helpless. The times where you think you just can't cope with some...
Eskom, Load-shedding Is Ruining my Toddler’s Vibe.
Of all the challenges I have had to face when it comes to raising toddlers, I never thought that explaining the science of electricity (or lack thereof), would be one of them. I mean she’s two. I’m pretty certain, by education standards, this conversation was only...
How We Potty-Trained Our Toddler In One week
This is the part I love the most about Social media, how it can bring moms together and offer support and practical tips for others who may be in the same season of life. After I posted about getting Hunter being out of nappies last week, it became very clear that...
Mama, Don’t Wait Until You’re Running On Empty To Invest In Yourself.
I recently watched the movie Tully for the second time and, there were even more "OMG YES!" moments that the first. It's one of those movies that depict the hard parts of motherhood in all it's raw and agonising glory. You feel so connected to the character because,...
Living With A Child With Type 1 Diabetes, A Mom’s Inspiring Story.
Today we are reading the brave story of one truly inspiring mama! Charne is mom to beautiful 4 year old Eva who was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes at the young age of 2. Since that fateful day where they were informed of their daughters disease, Charne has made it her...
The Brotherhood
Let me start by saying, my boys are good kids. They really and honestly are. Not perfect, but perfect for where they should be in their lives right now : learning as they go, making mistakes along the way and trying to make sense of things in the crazy and sometimes...
A Conversation With My 2-Year-Old Daughter About Loving Our Bodies
Yesterday, as I was getting dressed, my 2-year-old daughter sat on the bed beside me. I could feel her eyes on me, looking up from the Ipad where a few short months ago Pepa Pig would have had her so transfixed, a bomb could go off and she wouldn't know. She's so much...
What I Did When My Husband Gave Me The Day Off
What is it about being a mother that makes us feel guilty about doing nothing? LIke all of a sudden, we feel this need to constantly be doing something. Maybe it's because we miss that feeling of actually having something to show for our time, a by-product of the many...
Friendships Are Not Always Easy, And That’s Okay.
Life is a funny thing. We live our time on earth surrounded by millions of other people. Co-existing. Getting on with our daily lives. And somewhere along our journey, we meet these people, we make connections and form friendships with those we cross paths with every...
Helping My 8 Year-Old Cultivate A Love For Reading
I love reading. I really love reading books but with little to no time left in between the chaos of raising a family and balancing it all, I will settle for anything now days : Blogs, online articles, magazines in doctor's waiting rooms. But it hasn't always been that...
My Beautiful, Upside Down, Messy Life With Three Kids
Having children turns your life upside down. Literally. What once was a perfect, neat and tidy life becomes a messy, chaotic and a somewhat sticky one. Things that used to have their place in your home are muddled up with things that shouldn't have any place at all :...
Return Of The Motherhood Virus
As a mom to three kids, I've come to accept that it's quite normal for us to go through the occasional dip on this motherhood journey. Phases of feeling especially tired and not being able to keep afloat with even the ordinary and mundane tasks that are required of...
Self-Doubt Is SO 2018
The new year always brings with it a sense of nervous anticipation for me. In many ways I actually feel a little anxious as I begin to venture into another 365 around the sun. Do you ever feel that way? Slightly reluctant and trepidatious about what may lie ahead,...
Love Is Not A Feeling, Love Is An Action
I'm in quite a strange season of life at the moment. I feel like I'm learning new lessons everyday. And I don't know why it surprises me but it does. I always thought that I would begin to have most of it figured out by now. That I would know the way the world works,...
Taking a Better Self Back To Work After Maternity Leave
“Becoming a mom makes a woman a better employee and a better leader; you take a better self back to work” Melany Green, Chief Great Expectations officer There’s no denying that becoming a mother is one of the most life-changing and mind-altering events in a woman’s...
Dear Hunter Grace On Your 1st Birthday!
As I sit down to type this letter to you, it dawns on me that one day you will be old enough to read this. Just as these precious months are flying by at alarming speed, so will those that are yet to come. And soon you will be a toddler with pigtails in your hair who...
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