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Wholistic Mothering, Karrinyup (2025)

13/03/2024

Always exploring, finding joy in the little things 🥰☺️

23/12/2023

Happy holidays from our family to yours 💗☺️

Hope everyone has a safe, calm, beautiful Christmas & new years period.

I’ll be logging off and coming back in sometime in the new year 💗

Love to you all!
Xx

10/11/2023

🌸 Reminder to slow down, smell the flowers with your kids.. 🌸

Let them lead the nature walk..

Involve them in your chores - it may take 5x as long, but isn’t that also the point of life with kids… to experience life WITH your kids 🧚

My kids - my constant reminder to SLOW DOWN, enjoy the little things, find MAGIC in the simple ✨

Playing around with my camera and some presets from 🥰

17/08/2023

Our big girl is turning 8 tomorrow, and I had to take a moment to share something she told me today.

She knows how hard birthdays can be for the other kids (because she has experienced it herself on their birthdays, it can be so confusing for them as they have these mixed feelings of being happy for them whilst also potential jealousy or feeling left out creeping in).

So this afternoon, my sweet sweet big girl says to me, “so mum, I spoke to my sister today and told her that if at any point she feels like she needs some attention or a hug or anything she can do this sign 👌 to you or dad and that will just be her way to not have to say anything but you will know and can go to her straight away to give her some attention”. 💗🥲

I’m just so proud and inspired by this girl and her big heart. That on her birthday, that she’s been looking forward to for WEEKS (if not months!!) she’s worried about her sisters feelings. 🥰

Maybe we can all on her birthday tomorrow, be a little more forgiving, and empathic in our daily life - give someone the benefit of the doubt, find the good! 💗

15/06/2023

There’s nothing much that compares to the sisterly bond. 💗

… much like the mother-child bond, you never really understand it until you’re a mother yourself.
You ask yourself, are we really that connected.. is it possible..? And so you still question its power after..
✨ naturally waking up seconds before your baby cries out for you.
✨ you feel this urge deep inside to check on your little one, to then get there just in time as they fall
✨ you know exactly how their day has been just from your first eye contact when you see each other again.
✨ you get to witness daily how just the comfort of a hug and hearing your heart beat close again can instantly soothe.

It’s astounding that we could ever think to question such a powerful connection, whenever you find yourself questioning yourself in motherhood - just know that you have all the answers within, you just have to look and believe ✨✨💗

13/06/2023

First day for me at work yesterday, which meant this guy is on solo daddy duty! 🤩💗

Day 1 went very well, even miss P didn’t cry when I left, which I thought was most definitely going to happen given the lead up to it.

She has always been more clingy than the other 2, needing a lot of support (and mainly just mummy for everything!)

So thought I’d share a few things we did to prepare, maybe it will help someone else in similar situation:

✨ talked a lot about what was coming, ‘mummy will be going to work in x many days’. This was often met with a “no, mummy not leave me. I coming. Mummy not working.”
Even when this would cause some upset, we would keep bringing it up - which to some might seem counterintuitive, like, “it’s clearly upsetting her so don’t talk about it” kinda thing, but in actual fact it just creates more chances to visualize and process it.
✨ didn’t distract from her feelings; whenever she would show upset or sadness about it we didn’t distract we would validate, and just listen.
✨ I repeated routine from previous time I worked (when they dropped me at work, everyone gets a kiss & a cuddle in the car whilst buckled in their seat.) I think this actually really helped her remember from last time that when mummy works she stays with dad and she’s safe and I’ll be back. (If it’s your first time back at work, maybe try some ‘drop offs’ through play. Such a perfect way for them to process the separation.)

💗💗 if you’re heading back to work after having time off with your little ones, good luck! ✨ I know as a mum it can be so hard to have that time away from our little ones, I feel you ✨

06/05/2023

Loving our .and.fox painting with water. This has been great on the road - just paint brushes, water and this which rolls up into its own little bag.

Such a great way to make school work ‘fun’ too by adding another dimension with the painting.

Leather mat & the little bolga basket is from 🥰💗

17/04/2023

Been a little quiet on here - we’ve been soaking up as much time as possible with family 🥰💗

Will be back to share more again soon about life, travels, parenting and all that good stuff 🤪

But for now I leave you with this cute photo of cousins admiring the boats 😄

19/03/2023

We almost got the perfect shot.. (P just casually got her finger up her nose 🤣🙈).

Had a lovely chill weekend away in Robe, amongst all the things we also night weaned miss P. 💗

It’s a bitter sweet time, I’m sad but also excited to get some more sleep and freedom. The milk bar is still open during sunlight hours 💗

For those interested I will be sharing more about how we actually went about it all, hopefully it can help another mumma 💗

09/03/2023

One thing I do miss whilst being on the road is some of the homeschool ‘resources’ (or just toys), that we had at our fingertips to play with!

This was a simple invitation I set up for our eldest when she woke up. One of her absolute favorite things used to be when I’d set up a ‘surprise game’ for her.. (one of her love languages is gifts, so this was perfect for her).

She’d go to bed at night, and before I went to bed I’d always set up a little something for her to do in the morning. It didn’t have to be too elaborate, some days were more than others.. main thing for her that made it special, I think, was that she knew that even when she’d gone to bed mum was thinking about her 💗☺️

This was also super helpful in the mornings when I had little baby to get organized. If you haven’t already tried this - give it a go! You might be surprised how long it encourages some independent play. (Some mornings she could play for up to 1.5hours by herself in the living room while I lay in bed with baby ☺️💗).

02/03/2023

We started our day today talking about the importance of mindset.

I don’t actually remember quite how it started, but it led us onto essentially talking about

“What you think about you bring about”,

and about attracting good energy, and abundance. I love helping them to see the power in their words, I think it’s incredibly important to teach them to be optimistic in life (you know, the glass half full type of people, always trying to see the good), as much as we can we want to be phrasing things in a positive way. (E.g. instead of saying ‘I don’t want to fall’, we can instead say ‘I have great balance’ or whatever it might be).
Same in parenting.. instead of telling your kids to ‘NO running’, we can simple say ‘walking please’. Just think of all the times you tell your child no or stop.. how can we switch that around to be a ‘yes’, or just rephrase it in a positive way. Nothing worse than being told no all day! ☺️

The girls were very engaged and enjoyed joining in and adding their ideas and thoughts on the topic. Gosh I love homeschooling, these are those valuable life lessons and skills I want my kids to take into adulthood.. what about you?!? 😄

26/02/2023

I just had to share this sign, mainly because I felt it highlights a lot of what’s different with the mindset around respectful parenting..

“Children must be kept under parental CONTROL at all times”.

Even just those words make me feel yuck! Our job as parents is not to CONTROL our children, we are here to guide them. Guide them through what’s right/wrong, how to be kind, how to help make this world a better place, raise the vibration on this planet!

The wording could have very easily been changed to supervision, even just guidance! (Now I know, hey I could be reading into it more than it’s meant to. But words are powerful, and we need to choose them carefully..)

What do you think? Think back to when you were a child? Would you have wanted to be ‘controlled’? Be made to do things with no regard for your ideas or thoughts or feelings?

16/02/2023

✨ co-sleeping ✨

Is it safe? Is it causing bad habits? Will my kid ever sleep on their own? So many questions and opinions!

We’re still co-sleeping with our 2 year old (and honestly, our 7 year old would have loved to still be in our bed if we had space but caravan bed is a bit tight 🤪). I can see that we will continue to cosleep for some time still (she’s still breastfed several times through the night). This works well for us right now - that could change at any time though and we will adapt to that and find solutions that work for all of us.

I feel like when it comes to parenting in this modern world it can feel like there are so many ‘shoulds’ of what we SHOULD do (or what our child SHOULD do). But who says?

I know over my parenting journey, I’ve done things differently and learnt new ways since my eldest was born.

Im curious… what would you have done different with your first if you’d had all the knowledge you have now? For me it would be to not worry so much about those dreaded ‘bad habits’ and just put her in our bed more often at night, would have saved me so much sleep. 💗
Your turn.. ✨
(Swipe to see me have a moment of relief when P rolled away from me 🤣 we had the whole bed for just us!!)

24/11/2022

These are the days…

If you’ve been missing seeing posts from me, the best place to find me is over at - I find it hard to have 2 accounts going so this account will remain quiet whilst we’re on the road. (Especially since us hitting the road our main goal was time spent together and slowing down..)

So if you want to follow our journey, I’ll be sharing on there where we visit as well as any things that inspire me like parenting content or low tox living etc.

💗💗

03/09/2022

Currently exploring haystacks at station stays 🤩🤪

18/06/2022

• M O T H E R H O O D •

Today, (I actually wrote this yesterday and fell asleep too early to post it), it hit home how truly lonely and hard motherhood can be at times. As I stood within the four walls of our little home, standing in the kitchen just trying to do any simple task whilst a toddler cried at my feet to be carried and the constant noise of the older kids (although the sounds may be happy and from play, the constantness- yes that’s a word now, of it all can be so overwhelming).

This is not how it is meant to be..

I know as mums we say this often.. 🌸 we should be living in community!
🌸 we should be thriving, not just surviving the every day
🌸 it should be ok to not ‘do everything’ or wear all the hats (yet so many of us feel incredible guilt around this).
🌸 the mental load as a mum is almost indescribable, I don’t think you can truly appreciate it until you’re in it!

This post is not a ‘feel sorry for me’ post, just acknowledging how hard some days are - I love it more than anything, but my whole body was telling me today it needed a break, today I needed time with silence, no one touching me, just to be.

Tomorrow is a new day, soon things will be different and I’m excited for that 💖

Sending love and courage to all my fellow mums if you’re having a hard day, you’re not alone 😊💖

18/04/2022

Appreciation post for this guy - he sacrifices so much for our little family!

I don’t think many (myself included at times) realize how much hard work he’s always putting in, he goes above and beyond for his family and I don’t think he gets enough recognition for what he does. He’s often up before the Sun rises to get to work, works anywhere from 12-14 hour days and then comes home to be greeted by his 4 girls who all want his attention 🙈💖

So I just wanted to publicly share some love for the man I love and get to spend my life with, you’re amazing, I see you and everything you’re doing - we love you endlessly and appreciate you and everything you do.

17/03/2022

Looking back and realizing how fast time really does fly by when you’re in the thick of it.

Wishing I could be back here again, as Pia sleeps her way through mama blessings 😍 (also back when she occasionally would accept a dummy that wasn’t me 🙈🤪)

Wholistic Mothering