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Lento pero avanzo. Social Worker who is slowly studying towards a masters degree to become an early childhood and primary school teacher.

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Good morning 😊

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"Night night, mipples"

Utters my nearly two year old as he's getting ready for bed. Doesn't everyone say goodnight to their mipples?

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Bluey as puppets on stage in a crowded theatre was a very strange yet totally joyful experience. Happy Christmas, kiddo.

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Family holiday ☀️

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🌊☀️ (at Marcoola Beach) https://www.instagram.com/p/CI7xJBwglmh-HX2ISJSNhmSSIe-jLZAWVrfxDw0/?igshid=pei5rchwcptn

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Watching Chefs Table - BBQ is hypnotising. Nom nom nom.

The last episode about cochinita pibil is giving me all the feels. I miss travel, Mexico and Mexican food.

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Look, you’ve already had one and a half bananas this morning.  If I give you another, you’ll never poop again.

overhearing @hisnamewasbeanni​ negotiating with BeanniToddler about snack time.  

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Happy Father's Day, Spooky. You're such a kind, silly and loving Dad. This kid and I love you so much.

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We bought tickets to Hamilton for June next year!

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“Bluey,” the Coronavirus, and the Weirdness of Little Kids

An Australian TV show captures the idiosyncratic way that kids play.

This warmed my heart.

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I had errands to run today so I wore a mask for the first time. After weeks of no cases across the state, we've had a cluster break out on the other side of town. Prior to this, we'd been advised not to wear masks in order to preserve existing stock for medical purposes.

Turns out wearing a mask made me feel incredibly claustrophobic. I was close to a panic attack at the supermarket.

Birth trauma from being putting under general anaesthesia, kicking my ass in Coles, rearing it's ugly head 16 months later. Sigh.

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I have a rule that whatever books @unabridged-tomes talks about, I order from the library. It hasn't led me wrong yet.

Next up:

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I don't know if it was @unabridged-tomes or @adiemtocarpe who recommended Such A Fun Age by Kiley Reid, but I practically inhaled it. It just arrived from the library and goodness, it was SO GOOD.

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Shout out to the anti anxiety medication I started a month ago. Hooooooooooboy, it feels like the volume has been turned down on all those loud anxious feelings I've been having since the kid was born.

I also started running six weeks ago. The first day I had to lie in a field after doing 8x 1 minute running intervals with 90 seconds walking in between. I was dead! Yesterday I ran for 30 minutes continuously 👏👏👏

Got 2 of 3 marks for university back so far, credit and high distinction! Yaassss!

Uni has finished for the semester and I'm just enjoying taking time to slow down and see people I love. We are only having 1-3 new COVID19 cases per week in our state, and most of them have been people returning from overseas who are in quarantine. Community transmission is very low and thing are starting to open up again. It feels very weird.

That's it!

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Happy Mother's Day to me 💚

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My kid has emerged as a toddler. My previously voracious eater is constantly spitting out food I know he loves 🙃

Trying very hard not to get into a battle of the wills. Food is food, it's not power. It's my job to provide a yummy variety of healthy food regularly. It's his responsibility to eat it.

He's currently existing on bits of yoghurt and the brief nutrients of plum he chewed then spat out 🙃🙃🙃