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I couldn’t find a hallmark card for Father’s Day that says this

September 4, 2016 By Tracey Leave a Comment

I don’t know any parent who thinks that they’ve got this parenting business sorted.  The people I surround myself with are perfectly flawed and mostly just 30 seconds away from mayhem.  MM and I are making it up as we go.  We aren’t always on the same page when it comes to our parenting technique.  Shit we…

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Filed Under: Inside Thoughts Out Loud Tagged With: family, father, father's day, fatherhood, lessons, life, love, music, parenting, play, toddlers

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This is three

August 7, 2016 By Tracey Leave a Comment

Charlie was just six weeks old when someone said to me that the days are long but the years are short. I was a new mum, truly and madly in love with my son but I also had this weird anxiety about everything so any snippet of wisdom offered to me I grabbed much the…

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Filed Under: Inside Thoughts Out Loud, Motherhood Tagged With: Birthday, family, fatherhood, joy, lessons, life, love, motherhood, parenting, tantrums, Three year old, toddlers

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Mean girls or just bad days

July 17, 2016 By Tracey Leave a Comment

Lately I have had this messy imbalance going on that has had some implications on my life.  I have had to remind myself that I don’t really subscribe to that whole balanced life concept – my time is spent at any given time – where it is needed most at that point.  When it starts to…

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Filed Under: Inside Thoughts Out Loud Tagged With: balance, guilt, joy, lessons, life, love, mojo, motherhood, road rage, toddlers, work

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Sometimes it’s okay to give up

May 29, 2016 By Tracey 1 Comment

Last month I featured as a guest blogger over at Love from Mim.   I wrote about #MyFiveThings and it was the five things I learnt from IVF.  You can read it here.  If you want.  Anyway, one of those five things was that it is sometimes braver to give up than it is to keep…

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Filed Under: Inside Thoughts Out Loud Tagged With: fertility, giving up, goals, Infertility, IVF, IVF clinics, Julia Leigh, lessons, life, love, quitting, relationships

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About a friend

May 1, 2016 By Tracey Leave a Comment

fI haven’t felt like writing much this week.  Not so much that I didn’t want to write, I just haven’t felt as though I had anything to say that didn’t seem frothy and irrelevant.  This week my very dear friend lost someone so very close to her, someone she loved immensely, a soul sister.  She and her husband are grief stricken, of course…

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Filed Under: Inside Thoughts Out Loud Tagged With: family, fate, friendship, grief, lessons, life, love, universe

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The strength of mothers

April 22, 2016 By Tracey Leave a Comment

It’s been a bit of an ordinary week in that I know two mothers having a really shit time right now.  Really confronting stuff and each are hurting for different reasons. One of whom I’ve been friends with forever and a day, a school friend so I’m talking 30 years of history.  Another I don’t know…

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Filed Under: Inside Thoughts Out Loud, Motherhood Tagged With: friendship, health, IVF, lessons, life, love, motherhood, news, sickness

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