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4–7 minutes
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… Read more
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5–8 minutes
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… Read more
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8–11 minutes
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… Read more
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4–6 minutes
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… Read more
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7–10 minutes
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… Read more
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4–6 minutes
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… Read more
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4–6 minutes
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… Read more
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3–4 minutes
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… Read more
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3–5 minutes
On Settling In and Mental Load
Autumn is coming, and with it the settling in period at Finn’s Kinderkrippe (nursery school). I found the settling in period with Lily last year in Kindergarten immensely stressful, as… Read more
● About Me
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.
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