Mum Monday #2: the transition from 1 to 2 children

I’ve started writing a fair bit about parenting on this here blog. What started out as initially, would you believe, a place for my food reviews (lol) and things that made me happy (hence the name), then morphed into a beauty blog, sprinkled with travel and random musings. It’s been a number of years, y’all!…

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How taking on more responsibility is the ultimate freedom

In this day and age (this is almost a ‘back in my day’ moment but this Millennial will continue), as Kim Kardashian West famously said, ‘nobody wants to work anymore’. I think it was also, ‘get your a$$ up and work’ but I digress. Basically, when it comes to work, we want to hack it….

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Walking towards the light (in winter)

These days, I can only get my toddler to nap in the pram. We used to have such a solid schedule, oh my! I would drop off my older daughter, then my little one would fall asleep in the pram back like clockwork in the morning, and the afternoon would be a solid nap in…

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