-
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…
-
On the simplicity of play
With December and Christmas over, January always brings an air of calmness and simplicity for me. Instead of rushing into diets, gym schedules and stressful intentions I need to start right now (as it’s January), the month for me is reserved for contemplation, reflection and the joy of simplicity. Enjoying the simple things in life:…
-
A Guide to a Chill Christmas Break
When I heard “It’s Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas” for the first time this year, one line stood out like never before: “And Mum and Dad can hardly wait for school to start again.” So far, this line had never been relevant, but with my two kids now in nursery and kindergarten, the…
-
Why I Want to Play More with my Children
“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 son asking), etc. etc. I don’t know why, but often, this question causes me to squirm. Because, no, I actually don’t want to play a lot of the time, at…
-
5 Tips for a Good Breastfeeding Start
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 with it, especially in the beginning. I did, too. I breastfed my daughter Lily for sixteen months and am now also breastfeeding my son, Finn. While breastfeeding came without any…
-
A Christmas Letter
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 of the Tonie box. The snow is weighing heavy on the branches outside, and everything is covered with a white blanket. Lily and Finn are colouring in gingerbread and snowmen…
-
Why and How We Celebrate Christmas
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 Day is more like an afterthought. Yes, there’s goose or turkey, but the countdown in this country is for Christmas Eve. Why? Well, for starters, we open our presents on…
-
On Forgetting October and Getting Back to Work
Hello everyone and welcome back to Mama Bear Tales! With this year inching towards the end again (can you believe it?!), I thought about my plans I had for this year. One of these plans was to write a blog post every month, and apart from taking a short summer hiatus, I adhered to it.…
Mama Bear Tales 