Top Tips for Welcoming Baby Number 2 (or 3!) If you are lucky enough to have more than one child, one of the things you get in return is the wonderment that is siblings together. Sure we no doubt have lots of fighting and snatching and wrestling and broken bones and emotional turmoil in our…
Category: Sister
Being a girl…
Since having a daughter, I have thought more and more about what it means to be a girl in this world. At times, I can look around at young women I see, or read the news, or speak to friends and feel really overwhelmed by how much of a minefield life still is for women. And especially…
I wish….
A letter to my daughter on International Women’s Day…. Darling girl, With International Women’s Day coming hot on the heels of Mothers’ Day, it got me thinking about women, about mothers, about daughters. There are so many I things I could say that I wanted for Mothers’ Day. So many lovely material goods that would…
A birthday of firsts….
Munchkin turned one last week, a mega milestone if ever there was one…. And we were blessed with such a wonderful, happy, sunny day… There were lots of smiles and giggles from the birthday princess, and limited tears and limited drama. Obviously, as it was her Very Important Birthday, the day required two outfits. The first…
A Wild Life in Words 