It’s peak hour and I find myself walking the long way home with an overtired little bub wrapped tight against my chest and an empty pram skimming ahead of me - lighter having its precious cargo commuting by other means. The traffic roars past us with ferocity. It’s unnerving and I find my arm coiling [...]
Last year we bought a raised modular garden bed called a Vegepod. We were flying pretty blind at the beginning but had high hopes that the ole pod would give us a bit of a friendly push along - seeing as it's designed to be a fairly self sufficient little invention. As you may have [...]
No that's not a search term or a frustrated exclamation. It's the title of my first podcast. Yes, you read it here first - I am throwing caution and (more importantly) perfection to the wind and running wonkily through the fields of podcast land. What of this land? I do not know one jot dear [...]
My daughter recently discovered the wonder of hopscotch. She watched with amazement as I sketched out the little boxes and numbers and then showed her how to jump from spot to spot. I hadn't meant for us to even be outside in the cold air but I felt practically suffocated by anxiety that day and [...]
For our birthdays this year, my husband and I (with the help of family) invested in a raised garden bed called a Vegepod. It’s a modular, portable system that was featured on Shark Tank. It seemed really easy to use and good for renters like us so I decided to document the whole Vegepod build [...]
Recently I began my third trimester as a expectant second-time mumma and I’m a few weeks into being back home after a trip interstate. This is the first month of this pregnancy where I’ve really felt the urge to ‘nest’. A well-known phenomenon occurs for most expectant mums - we get to a certain point [...]
A quick preface: I started writing this post many weeks ago. And now - I’m actually finishing and posting it! This makes me really proud because I very rarely face the half-done jobs I’ve left in my wake. And here I am looking at my little greenies below and thinking “Thanks guys for being the [...]
On our last family holiday I was happily perched on the couch one night with bubba sleeping soundly down the hallway and hubby beside me. I was doing what I always did - scrolling mindlessly through a social media feed on my phone - when I was suddenly confronted by a very disturbing post. I'm [...]
There are some exceptional podcasts out there and I have a few gems to share. Here are five podcasts I'm currently enjoying. Hope you find something new in the list so you can expand your ears' horizons. They're always stuck in one spot so be sure to bring the good stuff to them!! 1. Invisibilia [...]
I wrote this post to answer the question "What's it like behind the closed door of a psychology session?" This is a trick question though! So, even though I have accurately answered it below, it has endless answers and all of them are right. For every person there's a unique version of the experience. There are limitless combinations of [...]
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