The realities of reducing your waste.
Reducing your waste isn't all, pretty productive gardens, herbs drying in the sun, and beautifully arranged glass jars in a food...
My love/hate relationship with the zoo
I have a weird (maybe not so weird) love/hate relationship with the zoo. Many know about my irrational fear of large cats... I even...
Why I cant be vegan
I'm not sure why I'm writing this, but for some reason I feel like I always have to explain my food eating habits. So I am trying to...
My "Fed is Best" journey with breastfeeding.
I haven't posted about this much because I never quite knew how to talk about it in a constructive way. I get a bit angry thinking about...
Do what you want with your own body, IDGAF
Erin Inger, wife and mother talks about her journey with cosmetic fixes and plastic surgery. Truth bomb ahead: if you’re a judgeypants,...
What is your super power?
Nikki talks about her own super powers and encourages others to think about their own. Someone asked me today what my Super Hero Powers...
Postpartum issues... let's talk about incontinence.
Incontinence after childbirth. It is the stuff that no one really talks about... But it is the stuff that we SHOULD talk about. The...
Explaining war to a child
We took the kids to the Auckland war memorial museum yesterday, as they had a military heritage day on. There were military vehicles...
The fear of kidnapping - my story.
I wasn't even sure what to title this blog because I was not sure of what I actually want to say. It is a story of what happened to me,...
Depression is a Sponge
Nikki talks about her most recent battle with depression, how it arrives at her doorstep and overstays its welcome sometimes. I’ve never...
Punching girls because you like them?
So my little girl was punched in the face last week at school :( They thought her nose was broken, but luckily it wasn't. She was sitting...
Life experiences for children, am I not giving them enough?
I posted up on the Facebook page that I was taking my kids out to a restaurant for the first time and asked if anyone else took their...
The anxious child - talking about feelings.
We now have a really important book in our lives... "Feel a Little" and it is helping us deal with a lot of things that Scarlett is going...
My anxious child - Allergies and stress, how one can make the other worse.
I myself have anxiety from time to time and it seems that so does my 5 year old. I suspect that her stress is manifesting in physical...
Making "mummy friends", why it is so hard making friends after babies.
My main problem with making friends in primary school and high school was that I wanted to be everyone's friend, I don't really get...
