Reminders To Myself in Motherhood
It’s always strange, the last week: Knowing change is coming, worried about how that change might feel, excruciatingly elated at the thought of meeting your…
Clary Sage Labour Oil Recipe + A Natural Labour Bag
We’ve been using essential oils in our home for a while now, from cleaning, to boosting immune health, to body and beauty products, to helping…
Thoughts On Three
If the last signs of babyhood in our home were daytime sleeps, we are well and truly in a different playing field. Maybe my two were…
Just Us: Rhythms of Family
With Ella two months deep into school, weekends have become holy time. I revere them accordingly and work to protect the time within them. Time with…
The Fortune Teller
So here’s a story for you. Once upon a time when Joel and I found ourselves pregnant for the first time and rather…we’ll go with confused,…
Somewhere Halfway
The unsolicited advice you receive as a new parent hits from all angles – all the time – over and over again. It’s nothing new, really. Just…
Welcoming Billy: A Birth Story
“to live in this world you must be able to do three things to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your…
The Play Jar
I shall begin this post with a community announcement: No. Nothing. Zip. Sorry folks, there is no baby. Well, there is, but he’s busy floating…
Knowing Her
I had a fun little writing session planned for Ella’s nap time yesterday, but I wasn’t feeling well. And by ‘not well’ I mean that I…
Soon.
“When’s the baby coming?” we ask Ella, as if she somehow has special knowing powers. “Soon”, she replies. “Baby coming soon.” I take it is as…
