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Three gentle reminders for the mum who feels like she’s “just surviving”

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Rediscovering Yourself in Motherhood: Small Habits to Try

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Chaos, Coffee & Tiny Humans: Life Lately

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Why I Breastfed for 2.5 Years – And Why I Finally Stopped

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Three gentle reminders for the mum who feels like she’s “just surviving”

When I became a mom abroad, I knew it would be difficult, but I was perhaps a bit naive as …

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Rediscovering Yourself in Motherhood: Small Habits to Try

Motherhood is beautiful – but it’s also a season where it’s so easy to lose yourself. The long nights, endless …

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Chaos, Coffee & Tiny Humans: Life Lately

Hi friends – it’s been a minute, hasn’t it? I realised the other day that I haven’t posted on here …

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Why I Breastfed for 2.5 Years – And Why I Finally Stopped

I recently stopped breastfeeding – FINALLY. I can shout it from the rooftops. My toddler is 2.5 years old, and …

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The Mental Load of Motherhood (and What Actually Helps)

Motherhood is beautiful, but let’s be honest – it’s also exhausting. I’m not just talking about physically exhausting, but mentally, …

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Hi! I'm Lauren, a 33 year old US expat living in Yorkshire with my husband and little ones.

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🚫 OVERRATED ⬇️ •British summer - sorry bu 🚫 OVERRATED ⬇️
•British summer - sorry but it’s either too •rainy or too hot. 
•Baked beans on toast. 
•Tea fixing everything - I’ll have coffee, please. 
•Pancake Day hype - they’re just crêpes. 
•Bank holidays with small kids - it’s just more chaos at home, let’s be real (especially when you still have to juggle work)
•M&S food prices 

⚡️UNDERRATED ⬇️
•The NHS - truly appreciate it so so much
•Sunday roast - especially when someone else cooks it 
•Cosy British pubs on rainy days 
•Walks around National Trust sites 
•The school run chit-chat - awkward at first, but oddly comforting now 
•British sense of humour - dry, sarcastic, and *chef’s kiss*

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Don’t worry it was empty xo I did spend the ne Don’t worry it was empty xo 

I did spend the next hour on the phone to 111 being asked “how much do you think he swallowed.”

The answer was not enough to matter but enough to ruin my day 🫠

ANYWAYYYY. What’s the worst thing your kid has done that was absolutely NOT learned from you? 

Mom of two, mom humour, kids are shitty, relatable parenting, boy mom, mom problems
Don’t worry it was empty xo he saw an opportun Don’t worry it was empty xo 

he saw an opportunity and he took it. I turned my back for 30 seconds and he’d already committed 🫠

tell me your kid has done something equally unhinged. I need the solidarity 😂

Mom of two, mom humour, kids are shitty, relatable parenting, boy mom, mom problems
Don’t worry it was empty XO Genuinely no one in Don’t worry it was empty XO

Genuinely no one in this house drinks rinse aid as a hobby so I’m not quite sure where he got the idea 🙃 one frantic call to 111, one A&E trip, very calmer and a very unbothered toddler later everything was fine. 

Except my nervous system. 

Drop your worst below so I feel better about myself.

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