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In the grand scheme of My Grown Up Life, this is the breakdown; I’ve been a mother for 11.5 years and married the same. We purchased our home 4 years ago and completed our Grown Up prerequisites by adding two dogs and another baby to the family. Job done! Adulting complete! Except, I forgot the paperwork. The Life Admin that …
Screen time, device time, iPad use, tablet time, TV time – whatever you call it, letting your kids use a screen, be it large or small immediately places a target on your back and immediately opens you up to judgement by Sancti-Mummy’s everywhere. Screen time gets such a bad rap these days, it’s almost as high up the parental hit-list as sugar …
The 4th trimester is becoming a more common talking point and something that new mums are increasingly being made aware of. Newborns and their mothers do not pop out of the birthing suite ready for lattes, playgroups and power walks with the Mountain Buggy – shock horror! However, there is a more sinister/dangerous/sleep depriving menace out there, one that catches …
So good. Let’s see; live music, temporary tattoos, storytelling, dancing, painting, bubbles, COFFEE, drumming, craft……….. Are you getting the picture? We headed into Auckland City Limits as the gates opened at 11am and went straight for the small fry festival – Auckland Kiddie Limits. Nix was checked in at the front gate and was given a wristband with our names …
The Sunday after the Rugby World Cup final my body hit a wall. Two weekends with late nights + 4am starts had left me struggling come Monday and starting the week off feeling sub-par is SO not a habit I’m keen on continuing. Many things have contributed to the general feeling of ‘blah’ that has taken hold of my body lately; Late …
Living with depression and anxiety of course means vastly different things to different people. But, over time, it also means different things to those who live with it; each month, week, shit…….even each day, I can find myself mired in different manifestations of the same old thing. It sucks for me and I’m sure it totally sucks for my family …
Realising we’ve all been scammed by this Easter/school holiday combo deal. Listening to consecutive tantrums and headbanging on the concrete floors. What the f*ck child? Needing to sleep for at least 4 days straight. Enjoyed a lie-in this morning until 7.06am at which time the boys descended armed with balloons and proceeded to volleyball slam them into my face …
Today I crossed one task off my to-do list and added 4 more. One. The tasks on my list are not even that onerous or time consuming. They simply require my undivided attention for a small period of time. Therein lies the conflict. Nixon is also small but requires my undivided attention ALL of the time. Resisting the yellow-haired dictator …
Nix has always hated the car. Vehemently. Road trips are a knife edge experience of gritted teeth as we wait for him to lose the plot and turn on his air raid sirens. Child is L O U D. He has been this way since birth, and looking back I wonder if his body position in the capsule and …
I was phaffing about the other morning trying to do All The Things simultaneously as per usual. I wandered out of the bathroom whilst brushing my teeth, thinking that I would put the washing on. En route to the laundry I spied an errant plate, scooped it up and headed for the kitchen. On my return to the laundry I …