Tag: motherhood and parenting
capture your moments, collect your memories
Once upon a time, this blog was loosely based on finding blessings in the mundane and appreciating the gift of an ordinary day. In the year 2011, I was inspired by this video. My children were still very young then, and I think that one of the most ordinary things in life is a mother taking care of her children. …
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When You See Mothers Hold It Together On Instagram, it might look like some mothers hold it together perfectly. They go traveling with their families to seemingly beautiful locations, they stroll down the mall and calmly shop. Other moms show their followers their fab finds, with their children smiling and looking like they enjoy what their moms bought them. Some …
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capture your moments, create your masterpieces
What is worse than a long night of being sick, coughing and lying awake? It’s a long night of my children taking ill; their foreheads, necks, backs and armpits hot with fever and their feet cold. Measuring out paracetamol for them to take every four hours. Sitting by them at the dining table, long after the meal was finished, to …
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capture your moments, collect your memories
What are parents’ Christmas like? Is it filled with lists that go on and on? Is it crazy and filled with panic shopping? Or is it a Christmas of calm and meaningful gifts?
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capture your moments, cultivate your magnificence
Confusion. Apprehension. Exhaustion. Whether I like it or not, those will always be a part of keeping up with motherhood and all the things that come with it. Even if I am in a season where the children are all in Elementary; and they have no need for milk and diaper changes every few hours, I still feel confused, apprehensive …
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capture your moments
Since it is still June, it’s still Father’s month, haha! A short but sweet post about appreciating daddy… And all the people (the moms, the siblings, the uncles, the aunties, the godfathers, etc.) who are like dads; giving guidance and sharing strength. To the dad who would not miss the birth of his child for work or for the world, who …
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capture your moments
To the mom who thinks I am silently judging her: I’m sorry if I am staring. I know it’s rude. I teach my kids that it’s rude to stare. Most moms do. You someday might, or you might already have. I’m sorry for my furtive glances at your actions. I know you can feel my eyes on you when you …
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