
Did you know that the world won’t collapse if you don’t do the laundry for three days? Or if something stands around in the corridor for a month? No wars will commence if you don’t vacuum for a week, and no one will arrest you for not cooking fresh every…
“Mummy, can we play?” I get this question a lot. Play dollhouse, do a puzzle, play mermaids, colour something in, play dump trucks (that’s my…
This blog post was originally published on my other blog floatingtheboat.co.uk Breastfeeding is a natural process in women – and, yet, many, many women struggle…
Dear family and friends, I am sat at my kitchen table, two flames on my advent wreath dancing along to the children’s songs blaring out…
Hello and welcome back! Can you believe it’s four days until Christmas Eve? Where I live, in Austria, Christmas Eve is the real deal. Christmas…

Hello dear mums who find this blog. My name is Anja and I am a proud mum of two wonderful children. In 2020 I became a mum for the first time, and it was wonderful, exhilarating, terrifying, anxiety-inducing, boring, overwhelming, aggravating, a dream-come-true, enraging, engaging, and so much more. Working with children has been a huge part of my life – even before I had kids, and it’s a topic I have read on and researched extensively.
I wanted a new place to share my personal experiences as a mother, as well as share books to read, lifestyle tips and talk about books I have read on parenting and life as a parent. Thank you for coming along on this journey with me, and I hope we can be friends.