Friday Favourites: gratitude, autumnal sunshine… and a whole lotta laundry

My life currently revolves around laundry. Laundry cycles have become my daily cycles. Gather the garments, load in, don’t forget to hear it beep! Load out, hang (often with a little helper)…. and heaven forbid you forget to bring it in overnight. Sorting is not really my forte (tricky for ADHD-inclined folks), so it all…

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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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