Mean Girls
“I can’t deal with this for the next fifteen years”, my friend says to me. “This mean girl stuff is only going to get worse the…
6 Relationship Strategies I Learnt In Marriage Counselling
In my first year of marriage, these are some of the thoughts I had: Is it meant to be this hard? Am I really cut out…
Saving The World With Ballet Concerts & Tears
Four years ago, I was closing up my business to start working from home, a swollen belly in front of me full of everything I didn’t…
Glitter
I take the kids and bundle them in the car, tense words passed between us both upon leaving. I’m too exhausted to rifle through them, to…
Marriage in Parenthood
There is partnership, and there is partnership within the walls of parenthood. Both tell very different stories. Some days, it seems as though the kids are…
Silver and Gold
Hey friends. Take your shoes off. Grab a quilt. Pour yourself a cup of tea. We’re hiding out in the tent today because Monday. It’s okay…
On Trenches and Shoveling
Bare feet. Clean sheets. Home-delivered fruit and veggies. Striped tights. Baby smiles. Iced water. Her giggle. Morning coffee. Mopped floors. A full fridge. Cool autumn air.…
Love and Other Hard Things
* Any personal information I share in this tent of ours about someone else – Joel included – is always done with permission. Joel and I…
Great Love
The first time I visited India, I was 19. On the plane ride over I felt excited. How exotic of me, I thought. How very cool…
Married Life
Marriages are funny things. Not that I’m married, of course. It’s just that to start this little segment with defacto relationships are funny things, well, it’s just…
The Red Tent 