It's January's turn to interview the kids!
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This is Aubree: A Disabled Daughter Story
This is Aubree. She was delivered on the 11th of November, 2012, at 7:02pm via an emergency C-section, after a 52 hour labour in which she suffered a lack of sufficient oxygen and blood supply to her brain. This caused extensive damage, known as Hypoxic Ischaemic Encephalopathy. She didn’t meet her milestones and at 14 months old, we were told…
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In Pursuit of Perfection
Let me start this post by saying, “I’m a perfectionist.” Yep. I’m a perfectionist, always have been. And I am about to admit to you that I AM NOT PERFECT. I’m learning to live with it. Society in general is pretty obsessed with perfection. We want perfect bodies, perfect jobs, perfect houses, perfect lives. Messy relationships, screaming kids, stretch marks,…
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Why Don’t You Write Your Birth Story? (Follow-up to Why Should I Write My Birth Story?)
About a month ago, I wrote a post about a topic near and dear to me: birth stories and the women who write them. I shared the words of BWF mamas who had written to me about some of the benefits of and their motivations for writing their stories. All so beautiful and insightful. These were women who had reached…
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Work Will Wait, the Rainbow Will Not {Neither the Child}
I love this quote and I love this picture. It is my 5 year old, who dressed herself in her own unique style. When we were leaving the shop, she asked if she could sit in this rad rocking chair. My first thought was no, b/c I was in a hurry. I adjusted my thinking quickly though and said, ‘why not?’.…
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Mothers and Our Families: Never Perfect, But Always Great
As mothers, we want to always protect our children, do what we feel is best for this, love them unconditionally, teach and guide them with the hope they will feel loved, be happy and turn out better than us. Women tend to criticize themselves, to never feel good enough. I know that I have these perfection expectations as a mother.…
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You Are Not Alone…Parenting is Wild!
Many times, when dealing with annoying, hard, ridiculous days (or kids), parents think it’s just them. They may get embarrassed or frustrated because they feel they are the only ones going through this… or this… or even goodness forbid this… It makes you want to do this (hey, if they can do it, why can’t we?)… You are not the…
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What is Important?
We’ve all heard it and said it…’it goes too fast’. Also, ‘life is too short’. Do we act on those statements though? Do we realize the impact and consequences of what we decide is important today? Our family has grown in size very rapidly and I have found myself missing the laid back mama I once was (just a few…