When you’re a new parent, you kind of accept that your chronically sleep deprived state is an unavoidable consequence of having a baby. Even if your baby is a healthy one who sleeps well, it’s pretty realistic to expect you will be roused from sleep during the night by your little beloved. Well, my kids
As last year came to a close and I reflected on where I was and what I’d achieved during 2017, I found myself feeling a bit down and dejected about things. I will explain, because otherwise it will likely sound really self-indulgent of me to have felt that way at all, let alone publicly whinge about
My daughter, Stella, is 4½ and she is already eagerly awaiting her 5th birthday (party) in April. On Friday last week I went to pick her up from kindergarten and when I arrived she was sitting on the mat with her classmates listening to her teacher explain how it was Jonah’s 5th birthday and he
Last week I learned a new word. I had never come across it before and yet it popped up twice in two days, in two completely different pieces of writing. My New Roots is a healthy food & lifestyle blog I recently discovered and have started to follow. In her latest post the author, Sarah,
This blog post is a follow-up to one I published a few months’ ago called, “On being a woman, period.” I wrote about how I decided to try addressing my iron deficiency issues and menorrhagia through diet and lifestyle in an attempt to balance my hormones, before resorting to synthetic iron supplements, prescription medicines, or
Last night, I can’t even remember how it all started, but I ended up in a heated argument at the dinner table with my father-in-law. I do love and greatly respect my father-in-law but as similar as we are, we have very, VERY different views on some things. This particular disagreement was about our differing
Late last year I decided to switch to a gluten-free lifestyle to see if I could improve my health through my diet. Well actually, it was more about eschewing wheat in particular, rather than about me believing I’m an undiagnosed coeliac or thinking that I have a gluten intolerance. It seems to me that wheat is
Before I launch into writing this post, I will just warn you that I’m about to write about my period and how it has affected (and been affected by) my overall health. I’m only doing this because I think that some people feel squeamish and uncomfortable talking or reading about bodily functions that are managed
I’ve been meaning to write about dairy for months, but my original intention was to write about why we were prepared to spend more on organic dairy. Well, now we don’t drink milk anymore and we’ve cut out all dairy except for milk kefir and cultured butter from our family’s diet! The old me wouldn’t have