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Baby (0-1yo) Life My Journey Tangents

New Year & New Goals

I can’t believe we are at the end of January already! This year is flying by faster than I would like. It seems in my head though that I am waiting for Charly’s first birthday and the new year only fully starts for me then. An odd feeling, but it is distinctly there, like I’m […]

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Update

My poor baby, and by extension our little family, just can’t catch a break!! Charly has been impossible for about 10 days; as usual we blamed teething, even though she won’t let us look in her mouth. Something still seemed off though, so I took her to the GP to get checked out. Turns out […]

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Baby (0-1yo) Experiences Learnings Life My Journey Tangents

Stepping Into the Past

What a week! Charly was still feeling sick and teething, so we are still running on sleep fumes. She has seemed much happier yesterday and today, though the evil tooth 6 has still not fully cut!

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Doing Instead of Dreaming

It’s been a while, again, as usual. The good news is I’ve been busy “doing” instead of just thinking or writing about doing. Let’s begin at the beginning then…

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Baby (0-1yo) Life My Journey Tangents

Reaching for a lifeboat

Yesterday I went back onto antidepressants. I was on them post pregnancy for a while, and then one day life felt manageable again and I stopped. It isn’t manageable anymore.

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Baby (0-1yo) Life My Journey Tangents

Finding My Mommy Instinct

I am feeling so grateful for all the wonderful inspirational mommies in my life. Things are so difficult in my mommy-baby bubble at the moment and watching, reading and hearing about how all of you manage yourselves and your kids through the tough times is what is getting me by – so thank you

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Life Tangents

10 Things That Make Me Happy

This post is actually in response to an Instagram chain that I was tagged in a few times, so I thought it would be easier to do here – it will allow for more photos and I can refer back to it if anyone tags me again 🙂 Anybody who would like to pick up […]

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One of THOSE Moms & Planning to Schedule

I’ve been avoiding writing because I feel ashamed of how frazzled I have become. It seems no matter how fast I run, I can never quite keep up.

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Baby (0-1yo) Life My Journey Tangents

Reasons to be happy

And now, back to the happy side of things. Brett and I seem to have finally found our groove again; as he puts it, we are finally adjusting to the “new normal”. I am so very blessed to have such a loving, supportive husband.

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Escapism & Battling Positivity

I know I have been completely absent again. I enjoyed the writing challenge I was doing, I was loving writing every night while I fed Charly, but life was a bit hectic with baby all night wake ups and work, so I took a step back… And fell off the ends of the earth.

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Challenging Myself Tangents

#Writersbootcampza Day 11 – 1 food. 1 drink. For the rest of my life.

I was going to skip this topic, I even started writing the next one, but in the end I couldn’t do it. To me this is a topic for a food blog, maybe a wine blog talking about the perfect pairing, or perhaps a really awkward first date. I so wish I knew anything about […]

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Baby (0-1yo) Life My Journey Tangents

Pining for Internal Silence

Today I am pining for internal silence. You know, the kind that can be found randomly when walking through an empty park or lying in a hot bath or curled up in a puddle of sun.

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Challenging Myself Tangents

#Writersbootcampza Day 8 – A love letter to my pet hate

Dear Loose & LOSE I know this will come as a shock to you because everything between us has always been perfect, but it is time you leave for good.

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#Writersbootcampza Day 5 – My life if I were a Steamfitter’s Helper in New York City

The actual topic for was “Find a job ad in the paper. Write about your life if you had that job.” Let’s be honest, I didn’t go buy the paper. I think it’s worth noting that posts like this should possibly not be up on PICT, so mommies please be patient. I will keep trying […]

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 Inspired by art

One (of many) definitions of “Art” is the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination“.