finding true freedom in this journey called "life'
I thought a good time to end my ‘blogging break’ was on Mother’s Day. It feels like such a significant day for me this year given how much I have changed in my parenting approach in the last year. The changes were already happening with my two youngest children who had been attachment parented [...]
You may have noticed it’s been a little quiet here? I wasn’t planning a blog break but I organised some changes to occur with my blog page so I was waiting to post until they were finished. Then my laptop started playing up and I had to get it fixed (which took much longer [...]
Looking through pinterest boards and many parenting blogs I have often seen lots of lovely activities that look such fun for children. It’s a new thing for me to want to provide opportunities to do these things for my children, one of the things ‘I used to say’ was that messy activities were for day [...]
I always wanted children close together. My brother and I were born 23 months apart and I liked that we were so close as siblings. After Karlie was born and I sunk into the depths of depression we soon realised that our plans to have children close together may not have been wise. As Karlie approached [...]
When I had my first baby at 22 years of age I had not even heard of the concept of home birth. I went along to my doctor as most people do and received a referral to an obstetrician in the same practice. My pregnancy was fairly straight forward except for some sickness that lingered until [...]
Before I had this blog I had another blog where I had just posted Milly and Pepper’s home birth stories on. I would like to bring them both over to this blog so over the next week I will be posting them and some other posts to do with birth. If anyone would like [...]
Today as we went to a local festival with the kids. As we walked around the stalls my son chose to buy a very interesting ceramic statue of a purple lizard on a log. Now it was certainly not something I would have bought and quickly thoughts started whirling in my head. “Oh that’s a [...]
Four months ago we decided to get some chickens. We love eggs but buying free range ones was getting expensive for the 7 people who live in our home at present (we have an exchange student living with us until December). In the last few weeks our 4 year old has decided she likes collecting [...]
Last night I walked into the kitchen and saw my 13 yr old was looking through the pantry. I asked “What are you looking for?”. He jumped as I had startled him with my presence. He quickly responded with “Oh I jumped because I am used to jumping when you catch me in the [...]
Have you ever had a friend that you could fight with just as much as you had times of peace, connection, support and enjoyment? My 4 year old Milly has a dear friend like this that she has pretty much known since birth. His mum and I were in the same mother’s group (a council led [...]
