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Flying in planes with toddlers
After being here for six months you start to get a little stir crazy. You start to miss your family and friends, then you start to contemplate whether or not you made a good decision in moving so far away. When you’re 5000 kilometres away from everything you’ve ever known it takes a toll on you.
We decided to fly back home and rekindle all those relationships with people we haven’t seen in…
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#LifeintheKnife winter edition
Adapting to Yellowknife lifestyle isn’t the easiest task when you move here from a city like Toronto. Sometimes I feel as if people from the island of Jamaica would have an easier time adapting to the lifestyle here (just not the frigid temperatures) and we are five months in and just starting to slow our pace and live that simple lifestyle that it takes to succeed here.
When I fisrt arrived…
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Catching up with the kids
Catching up with the kids
Sometimes it feels like all I do is work. I get off early, but that doesn’t mean the phone calls and research stops. By the time we sit down at the table of dinner I am truly exhausted… At least my brain is.
That leaves little time for relearning who my kids are, as every day some facet of them changes and they become new people. So lately I have made a point to spend more direct time with them,…
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Why I don't care about looking good
Why I don’t care about looking good
There is the pressure that comes from being a woman that we are supposed to doll ourselves up and look “presentable”.
I hear the terms “looking presentable” and “dressing for the part” but what does that entail when you’re a woman?
Being a man, throwing on a pair of jeans and a wool sweater makes you look like you’re actually dressing up, but in reality you only spend a few mins grabbing whatever…
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The hustle of Radio and Momming all at once
The hustle of Radio and Momming all at once
The morning show has been on air now for almost four weeks, but to me it feels like four minutes.
I wake up at four in the morning and am at the station, which in a small town like Yellowknife is luckily only a stones throw away, between 4:30 and 5. I spend the next bit getting ready and organized, counting down the minutes until the show begins.
Then -POOF! It’s 9 and the show is done. After…
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Why Yellowknife?
Shortly after my daughter was born I was depressed. Not an obvious depression, but I believe to anyone who truly knew me it was plainly and painstakingly obvious.
I recently had had a falling out with my mother and it had been a while since we talked. We downsized into a small one-bedroom apartment in an attempt to save money and pay off our debt, only to be greeted with non-stop renovations in…
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HELLO TESLA! A birth story.
HELLO TESLA! A birth story.
It’s been a while since there has been any updates, and by while I mean about 8 months. Life with two under two is instantly crazy, but in the most wonderful of ways.
About a month after we downsized and finished moving I was due with baby # 2, our wonderful little girl. She was due to be born May 4th, but just like her brother, she was inclined to stay in there for as long as possible.
One week…
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31 Weeks, Stressed and Moving.
Somehow today I am 31 weeks pregnant. I don’t know how the time has snuck by so quickly. It the midst of appointments, work and searching for a new home, I have barely had time to blink. It’s hard to find the time to sit down and write lately, as Monster has entered a phase of smashing my laptop keys and closing it every time I attempt to.
All the computer time I can muster is spent on relentless…
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The Difference Between Your First and Second Pregnancy
NEW SMASHED PHOENIX POST! The Difference Between Your First and Second Pregnancy #SmashedPhoenix
You’re first pregnancy is always so exciting. Everyone wants to share their wisdom and your joy. It is so unreal and every little wonder is this exciting adventure. You read a million books and articles, rigidly track your progress and count down the days until your little bundle of joy arrives.
Your second pregnancy is nothing like that.
Being pregnant with Monster was an amazing adventure, like…
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The Late Night Room Sneak
We are approaching a whole year of breastfeeding, Monster and I, and although I feel a strong sense of accomplishment I can honestly say that I am going to look forward to the few months off before number two arrives. In particular, bed time breastfeeding and the sneak out that comes after. I long for the day that I can just read my children a story, shut off the lights and say goodnight, but…
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Pregnancy Exhaustion
Where are the words that will explain how I am feeling lately… Oh yeah! UTTER EXHAUSTION.
The most challenging part of the last little while is functioning even though my body just wants to sleep. I can’t sleep though because I have a ten month old Monster to run after all day.
I don’t know how some moms do it. Back to back babies is insanity. I am so tired and irritable that I would just rather…
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Two Under Two
As Monster reaches ten months we are blessed with the news that we will have another joining our family! Josh is over the moon about the addition and I am a little more realistic about the impending running around after a year-and-a-half-old while months pregnant scenario.
There are of course positives and negatives about having back-to-back children. The negatives conclude with being tired and…
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Our Breastfeeding Journey
Learning to breastfeed is, without doubt, one of the hardest things that I have accomplished in my life, and by far the most rewarding but it wasn’t a walk in the park. Establishing breastfeeding, especially with your first, is hard and many mothers do not make it through the first three months, never mind a whole year.
The first three weeks were intense. Monster was born on Christmas Eve so…
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Kids and Commercialism
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Now that I have passed the super dependant newborn stage it is incredible to look at how many people overthink the simplicity of it. Mind you Monster is laid back and easy-going, but the amount of crap people buy that you don’t even need is insane.
We were fortunate enough to be given pretty much everything that we’ve needed. That being said we already have two huge bags of outgrown clothes, a…
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Transitioning to a Montessori Floor Bed
Transitioning to a Montessori Floor Bed
Every day for a month when we would try to put Monster down in his crib we would get three-quarters of the way down, or his body would just touch the bed and he would wake up screaming bloody murder.
I would sit back down in the rocking chair and put him back to sleep. He would drift off and I would slowly get up and attempt to put him in his bed again- Only for his eyes to flash open as soon as…
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Maybe Dad Is A Better Mom?
Maybe Dad Is A Better Mom?
The transition between staying at home and working full-time is incredibly hard. We have all been working very hard to make sure that everyone is doing well.
Josh is now at home doing the main taking-care-of-baby roll and I sometimes think that I pale in comparison to him.
He is on the ballowns the ball and I still can’t get over how well he does during the day. When things go south for me I…
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An Unexpected Call From The Doctor
An Unexpected Call From The Doctor
It seems as though the last two weeks have passed in a blink of an eye. With all this working, it has been pretty low-key and still I find myself overwhelmed with the amount of things going on.
When you have a young child, two weeks can make all the difference. Monster just had his six month needles, which he took very well. The visit cemented how important it is to have a good doctor on your…
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