Words that uplift and empower | Creative Experiences and Art by Joy Adan
I’ve told myself over and over again for quite a while now that I need to start writing again, but the problem is I get in front of my computer and (as with many things in my life) I don’t know where to start. But this morning as the winter chill slapped my face, something else hit me: start simple. It must have been something to do with the recent
Last night our priest kicked off his homily with an anecdote about cooking (he must have known the My Kitchen Rules season finale was airing last night); he and a friend were cooking soup for the first time and the first taste of it was bland and uninspiring. With no recipe and only a poorly-stocked pantry on hand, the only thing he knew could solve their predicament was to add
I seem to have lost the ability to stay with one train of thought. And I’m going to blame my “disorder” on the micro-blogging via Twitter, Facebook and Pinterest business. Reading so many thoughts and opinions in 160 characters or less, then scrolling down through aggregated tiny URL after tiny URL or pin after pin after pin… every time I sit down to do just one thing I end up with at
Feeding baby solids comes with a whole heap of challenges… but I’ve gotta say this is one genius invention that I really wish I’d taken more advantage of when we first began Ukelele Baby’s foray onto pureed baby food. Boon’s Squirt spoon is brilliant for feeding bub while on the go; this allows me to do it without clumsily fussing about with multiple utensils and bowls. It’s been a life
It was a couple of weeks before my due date and I remember sitting on my bed with a rather large collection of lists in front me, telling me to bring a gazillion things to the hospital when it came time to give birth. I had no idea where to start, whether all of it was really necessary, and how on earth I was supposed to fit it all into
I remember that one of my top priorities in my first week of maternity leave was to upgrade my dying Nokia N97 to a proper, working smart phone. Admittedly the main reason was that my calls weren’t connecting or kept dropping out and seeing as we don’t have a landline at home, the last thing I wanted was to go into labour and not have a way of getting in
I just finished writing out my talk for tomorrow night’s Couples for Christ Christian Life Program. I’ll post a few of the talking points up eventually, but for now I just wanted to share this, which is an excerpt of Pope Benedict XVI’s homily from World Youth Day 2005.
Could it be? Has my baby worked out how to fall asleep on his own and through the night?? I was going to wait a few more days before I started writing a post about Baby’s progress in the sleep department, thinking it was too soon to celebrate. But I know too well how the cycle goes; you learn something new or achieve a milestone of some sort and in
Poo. Every baby produces a lot of it. Therefore, as a parent, you spend a $h!tload of your time trying to get rid of it (bahahaha sorry… crappy pun. Oops there I go again! Ok I’ll stop now). So, given that this substance is so common place, why is it that even after centuries of human evolution we have yet to figure out a way of managing the unavoidable catastrophe
A bizarre thing happened at the shopping centre the other day; I was with a fellow first-time mum and we were heading down a travelator, trying to do our best to make our way from the Food Court to Toys R Us with two agitated babies. Luckily for me, Ukulele Baby had calmed down as his stroller started moving. My friend’s baby, on the other hand, was emitting the not
My baby just fell asleep. He was awake for 4.5 hours (I’m led to believe this is far too long a stretch for a 5-week old) and would not settle down. First he surprised me with two poo explosions mid-way through his feed. Then he was super hungry and fed for over an hour. Then he couldn’t get his wind up. We tried to settle him down after what seemed to
Two of my fellow mums came over today and we spent an afternoon sharing stories about our babies. I realised in talking to them how important it is to have supportive people during this stage of life; taking a baby home for the first time is such a daunting task and, depending on how the pregnancy and labour went, can take a long time to get accustomed to.
