I love girl weekends away. Not just the ones you have with your girlfriends (although that is also very therapeutic). I am talking about with your little girl. The treasured mummy and daughter time. Sometimes we need to take some time out together for some real quality time. One on one trips to the shops, a walk down to the beach or bedtime cuddles are all wonderful. But sometimes, we need those spontaneous getaways to regroup and really nurture our relationship. Continue reading
Recently Hubby and I celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary in a very unorthodox way. We decided to go on a family-versary. Yes, you read right. A family-versary (a family wedding anniversary), somewhat similar to the familymoon (family honeymoon) we had last year. Don’t get me wrong Hubby and I would love to have and will hopefully one day have a real honeymoon or wedding anniversary with just the two of us, but with a lack of support around and young kids it makes the whole thing a bit tricky so for now instead of fretting about not celebrating the way everyone else does we just improvise and make different kinds of memories.
So for this family getaway I went to Hubby’s bucket list and picked Yamba. It’s only 1.5hrs drive from the beautiful Byron Bay or 2hr from the Gold Coast. Continue reading
Recently Hubby and I celebrated our 1 year wedding anniversary in a very unorthodox way. We decided to go on a family-versary. Yes, you read right. A family-versary (a family wedding anniversary), somewhat similar to the familymoon (family honeymoon) we had last year. Don’t get me wrong Hubby and I would love to have and will hopefully one day have a real honeymoon or wedding anniversary with just the two of us, but with a lack of support around and young kids it makes the whole thing a bit tricky so for now instead of fretting about not celebrating the way everyone else does we just improvise and make different kinds of memories.
So for this family getaway I went to Hubby’s bucket list and picked Yamba. It’s only 1.5hrs drive from the beautiful Byron Bay or 2hr from the Gold Coast. Continue reading
So recently I read a blog by the beautiful Amy from This Mum Likes titled “10 Reasons I Love Mothers’ Group”and it got me thinking about what happens to those of us who don’t click with the group we are given? What if we don’t feel like these women are our sister wives or our mama village, then what?
I feel there are milestones in our lives as mothers just as there are in a child. Children learn to crawl, then walk, then run. Without one it makes it difficult to move on to the next stage. I realise now it’s much the same with motherhood. If you don’t click and build that village in the early days of motherhood it makes the next few milestones hard, lonely and isolating.
Mother’s Day is such a bitter sweet day for me. As it draws near I feel myself getting a bit anxious and my heart getting a bit heavier. I know I won’t be able to share any new ‘mum and me’ photos on social media and when Sunday comes around and I see photos of friends with their arms draped around their mum’s neck as they pose for a photo I am sure I will feel a ping of envy.
I long for those photos, the new mum and me photos taken over a Mother’s day brunch or lunch, or the generation shot of my mum, kids and I but there will be no photos or moments captured and I imagine it will hurt just the same as it did last year. Continue reading
Mother’s Day is such a bitter sweet day for me. As it draws near I feel myself getting a bit anxious and my heart getting a bit heavier. I know I won’t be able to share any new ‘mum and me’ photos on social media and when Sunday comes around and I see photos of friends with their arms draped around their mum’s neck as they pose for a photo I am sure I will feel a ping of envy.
I long for those photos, the new mum and me photos taken over a Mother’s day brunch or lunch, or the generation shot of my mum, kids and I but there will be no photos or moments captured and I imagine it will hurt just the same as it did last year. Continue reading