Month: February 2025

  • Pregnancy Update

    This blog post was originally published on June, 6th, 2020 on Floating the Boat So, after I dropped the pregnancy announcement a few months back, I finally feel like writing more about it. I guess it lies in the nature of a person who’s lost plenty of trust in herself and the world (way to…

  • An Announcement…

    This blog post was originally published on May 5th, 2020 on Floating the Boat ​I LOVED YOUR FATHER,AND HE LOVED ME,AND NOW WE’RE SO HAPPYTHAT TWO WILL BE THREE. THOUGH BARELY THERE,JUST A BLOB ON THE SCREEN,WE HAVE FELT LOVE,IN PLACES UNSEEN.THE STORIES UNFOLDING,DEEP WITHIN ME,TELL OF HAPPINESS, SADNESSA WHOLE LIFE TO BE A HEART…

  • 10-Month Update: Sitting, Crawling and a little Food

    This post was originally posted on June 10th, 2021 on Floating the Boat The days are long but the months are short – I couldn’t agree more. Lily is now ten months old and officially in the double-digits. From the 9-Month-Update, you know that she started crawling at the end of May, and sitting up followed…

  • How We Slipped Into BLW and Why We Do It

    This post was originally posted on July 14th 2021 on Floating the Boat I am not a great cook. I don’t really enjoy preparing meals, going food-shopping, and, honestly, not even eating that much (unless it’s cake. Cake always works). So when I was pregnant and preparing for how we would raise Lily food-wise, I was…

  • The (Gentle) Parent Trap

    When typing in the hashtags #gentleparenting or #attachmentparenting in the search engine of Instagram, they yield over 800.000 and 600.000 hits, respectively. When you are on social media, it is almost impossible to not stumble upon post after post of “free-range” children, Montessori playrooms and ways to gentle-parent your child. It almost seems like a…