Free!
Anya’s arrival is setting me free! It is easy for me to focus on what I have lost or given up to become a mother: work, free time, a social life… and these early months can feel a little prison like,...
View ArticleA Typical Mothering Day?
Before having a baby, I never understood what all the fuss with being so ‘busy’ as a mom, was. What do they mean they can’t have a shower, they must be exaggerating, surely, no? Now I know… For...
View ArticleIt takes a village to bring up a baby… but my tribe is the other side of an...
Living far from friends and family is very challenging for me, since becoming a mom. I have lived away from home (like in a country away from my home country) since I was 18. At that age getting away...
View ArticleTFI Friday!
I wrote this yesterday… but was too tired to post it. — Here’s the good news: Kai has a new job! Hooray. I am really happy for him and super proud. Here’s the not so good news: I am burned out from a...
View ArticleYes, I defend my child’s right to say ‘no’
If I only had one word, if I was laid up in bed or something, couldn’t talk, couldn’t sign and for some reason my brain could only put together one word and if I could chose that word, now, I would...
View ArticleOpen love letter to my daughter
I was “challenged” by Mother on Mother Earth to write this post, so I thought I’d take a break from the serious business of blogging (uh?…) and do this fun, easy one instead. Here is her sweet post. I...
View Article366/week 2: swings, bikes and puzzling things
Week two of this 366 photographic adventure kick-started by Luschka at diary of a first child. If you’ve got a blog, a baby and a camera you can join in, too (actually the blog is optional :) Day 6 At...
View ArticleMamatography/week 6: ‘going splash on daddy!’
Week 6 of our Mamatography challenge – photo a day for a year! We are not more than a tenth of the way in. Still a long way to go, obviously, but I feel like I am getting into a rhythm with it....
View ArticleMamatography/week 10: surprise visit to grammy, in Portugal
Sooooooo, here at last is last weeks installment of our 366 adventure, now in Portugal. (Sorry it is so late, but you know/can imagine how it is with flying across an ocean with a two year old… on my...
View ArticlePostpartum challenges helped me be who I am today
I wrote this about 6 months ago and left it to marinate. I am ready to share, now. — — — I got pregnant within months of moving to the US. I had really hardly arrived. And then I had a baby. I had no...
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