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Have you ever seen those giant plastic recycling bins at the supermarket? The ones that you put your soft plastic packaging in. Had you noticed recently that they have disappeared from New Zealand stores? That’s such a bummer, right!? I had been so pleased to see that someone was making an effort to collect the soft plastics and turning them back into useful stuff, so we didn’t need to feel so guilty about putting them in the bin! BUT, at the end of 2018 these soft plastics bins were removed from supermarkets around New Zealand.  The reason for this is...

Being a mother is hard work. I’ve often had times when I’ve really struggled, some days to the point where I’ve wondered if I can keep going. Yet, if you’d asked me on some of those really tough days if I was OK, I more than likely would have said “I’m fine”. Like most people (I think), I’d rather pretend I am OK, than to let someone else see that I’m not coping. To say that you need help is to be vulnerable, and that’s a feeling that not too many of us like to experience. Right now, I’m reading...

I saw a post the other day on a mum group I’m in that I thought was worth a bit more discussion. One of the ladies in there had asked if it was possible to have post natal depression when her child was almost 3 years old. Now I’m not a doctor, so I don’t claim to have any sort of ability to discuss a condition like PND, however, I do know that mum life is hard and different people struggle with different stages, so post natal depression or not I’m pretty sure that things can happen at any stage...

If there is one thing I have learned since becoming a mother is that most things are not as you think they will be. I don’t know why this is. Perhaps it is because it looks so much on tv, because no one else shares the full story, or maybe it’s just because we’re a little deluded that the hard stuff won’t happen to us. I have to admit that (being ever the optimist) I was in this last category. Today I wanted to write a little story about the childbirth. One of the reasons I want to write about...