MOMLIFE AND PRESERVING YOUR OWN SELF Momlife = that life where is everything revolves around your family, partner and children. The Balance When I was at varsity people couldn’t get enough of advocating the study / play balance. Don’t go and party too much but by the same token don’t stay indoors and not […]
MOMTIME 62 IDEAS FOR MOM TIME OUT MomTime is desperately important so that you can be the best version of yourself. A car can’t drive without petrol. A TV can’t work with out a power source. A child can’t grow without food. Simply put – you can’t be a great mom can’t be that without […]
Child 1 Arrives Child 1 arrived and we were full of theoretical knowledge. I’d read the books (all the books) on having a child and conveyed this information to my husband, we’d been on two parenting courses and I’d filled a notebook with everything I had read or heard. The notebook had pictures on how […]
CATERING – WHERE DO YOU EVEN START Catering for your party can be quite daunting, if you don’t know where to start. It really is quite easy though if you approach it step by step. My biggest problem here is that I always always over-cater and then send everyone home with left overs. I […]
Raising children in a Muslim Family Today’s post comes to you from Breharne, a fellow Australian mom blogger who is married with 2 beautiful girls. Breharne is just like me – she loves trying out new places with her children and trying to keep them entertained. ♦ I’m just an ordinary Aussie mum. […]
The Religious Effect Introducing the Religious Effect Series For the next three weeks I’m going to introduce you to three moms raising children according to their different religious principals. I know religion is highly controversial. However, I’m not publishing these stories for the purposes of encouraging a debate as to each religion or for […]
A Letter to My Mom by Paul Jacobson Dear Mom I don’t think I had any real appreciation of what it must have been like for you to become my Mom when you were barely an adult yourself when your son arrived. You still had to figure out how to be a parent as you and […]
A Letter to My Mom by David Kobler Hey Mum, Wanted to write a quick letter to say thanks for sacrificing so much for me. All the school pick ups and drop offs. The healthy lunches you always packed even when I would constantly complain. The endless nights you would come and sit on my bed […]
Things you didn’t know before you became a parent “Mothers are all slightly insane”- J.D. Salinger You will refer to other adults as Clarissa’s mom or holly’s granny all the while never knowing that persons actual name. Left overs and cold food and drinks are actually delicious. How little sleep you can actually function […]
Frustrations only parents understand Becoming a parent comes with a lot of joy. It also comes with a lot of frustrations, frustrations only parents can understand. Or maybe grandparents because they too were parents once. This is all said in jest because I still love being a parent and am very grateful for the […]
