I read a lot on line, I’m going to take a wild guess that you do too, so here are some of my recent favourites. Snuggle up, get comfy and have a read.
Chrissy Teigen’s words could be just what someone who is struggling with motherhood needs to read. I love it.
We had our daughter, Luna, who is perfect. She is somehow exactly me, exactly John, and exactly herself. I adore her.
I had everything I needed to be happy. And yet, for much of the last year, I felt unhappy. What basically everyone around me—but me—knew up until December was this: I have postpartum depression. How can I feel this way when everything is so great? I’ve had a hard time coming to terms with that, and I hesitated to even talk about this, as everything becomes such a “thing.”
Read the full article here
I stumbled across Olivia Hewetsons Instagram page at a very poignant time in her life. Here she tells a birth story unlike any I have read before. I’ve loved getting to know Olivia a little, and her strength and generosity is so very obvious through her blog. Those who know my greater family will know that this story has a personal interest for me as well.
Read her blog here
Althea, from Us Two and Our Two, has written a refreshing take on that, often illusive, ‘Village’.
And so just like everyone else on social media, I took a photo of me holding my child in that rare 10 minutes when he decided to have a short nap. I put a filter on it to make my sallow skin look dewy and fresh. And I hit “post” on Instagram and Facebook with a caption that said “This is what happiness feels like” or something like that.
I lied. Why?
Read the full article here
This gem on Scary Mommy about marriage is appropriately scarily accurate.
Marriage is someone reminding you that you’ll feel better if you go out and exercise, even when you’re pretty sure you’ll feel better if you eat a donut.
Read the full article here
I am often asked about my favourite things to do in Queenstown, it’s nice that my good friend Jane from Queenstown Life has written a fantastic post on precisely this! We have been here 4 years but I learnt heaps of new places to put on my list.
“head out to Glenorchy (and stop at Bennett’s Bluff for the photo everyone gets), Bobs Cove for water so blue you’d think it wasn’t real. The Glenorchy Store has everything you could ever need (including gelato and coffee). Then onto Kinloch, Paradise or a wee meander on the Routeburn”
Read the full article here
I adore Jesse Mulligan on RNZ, any other fans out there?
There was a time when Friday afternoons were glorious. When at 4.30pm, a beer would arrive on my desk care of a keen colleague who’d mentally checked out of work five hours earlier. It was time to back away from the keyboard and officially welcome back my favourite friend: the weekend.
“Let’s go out for tequila!” someone would say.
“Ugh. Really? Well … okay,” I’d say – because I COULD.
Those days are gone. Friday afternoons have become a time to be feared. There is only one saviour in the darkness, a soothing voice ahead of the storm: Jesse Mulligan on RNZ.
Read the full article here
I hope you liked my selection, and if you read anything you think I would like please do send it to me so that I can avoid actually reading a real book for a little longer.
xxx Jana
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