Category: Adulting & Motherhood
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Reflection
I took this photo the other morning in a rush, between getting back from the gym and changing for work. I hadn’t been having great workout sessions of late, and I thought it was perhaps because I didn’t have a goal in place. That morning I focussed on core work, and when I got home […]
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Letting go of a dream
Almost exactly a year ago, I achieved my Pilates Mat qualification. It was an intense course, both physically and mentally. It was early morning study sessions and or practicing the exercises to perfection. It was spending all my morning gym time dedicated to finding a little quite corner, or an empty studio (yay) to practice, […]
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Time-Out
It was one of those days… ok who are we kidding right? It was one of those weeks/months/hell let’s just say since 2010!! And I needed a time-out. I, me. Not the kids. Moi. You know the signs all too well. Getting all snappy, moody, overreacting, sometimes even tears and a full on meltdown. It […]
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Hello Routine, you sexy thing you.
Let us all breathe a sigh of relief. The school calendar has commenced. I’ve got the first week back at work under my belt. Traffic is back along with homework, early morning alarms, packed lunches, meetings, juggling calendars, schedules and random requests for recycling, old t shirts and used batteries…new school car sticker now stuck […]
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Mission Impossible
Hello Bron. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get both children asleep by 7.30pm, best-case scenario, or worst-case scenario, one of them asleep.
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Sometimes-at-home-sometimes-working Mom
Every year, in January, when Zama is back from her well-deserved break and the holiday clubs / playschools are open again, I take the week off. I go to gym at a reasonable hour, hanging around afterwards sipping on extra nutritious, extra vitamin loaded, extra expensive smoothies with my girlfriends. I plan little DIY projects […]