The children question… It was bound to happen—although I didn’t expect it to happen so soon after giving birth. When my baby was only a handful of weeks old, someone broke the ice and asked when my husband and I would be getting more children. Of course, at the time, all we could think about… Read More How Many Children and How Far Apart They Should Be: Does It Really Matter?
I have to admit that, since I started blogging back in 2008, the online landscape has changed quite a lot. The principle of independently investigating the truth has become even more difficult than it already inherently is because of the glut of information so easily available now; making things murkier are false pieces of information… Read More Fake News and The Search For Truth: No, Really, It’s Still Out There
It seems that the health of parents is of big concern to many; the younger the offspring, the higher the concern. I reached out to a number of parents in my network and asked them for their best tips in four categories of health: spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical. I then picked the one or… Read More How Do You Look So Good? Parents Share Tips on Nurturing Their Own Health
Back in 2008, I twisted my ankle really badly—so badly, in fact, that I had to use a crutch for at least 3 months, and surgery was an option being considered. While re-reading this post on how something as simple as walking had become mentally exhausting yet surprisingly relaxing, I was struck by how so… Read More Making the Most of Some Really Unlucky Times: The Story of an Amazing Family
I’m lucky that a significant number of close friends had children before I did—so, while they think I was doing them a favour when I would visit, little do they know that they were doing me a favour by preparing me for a lot of things I otherwise wouldn’t have known about. One thing that… Read More Eye See You, Eye Shadow Palettes For Moms: Naked and Naked2 by Urban Decay
This year (2017) is a special year for Bahá’ís like myself. Come November, we are going to be celebrating the bicentenary of the Birth of Bahá’u’lláh, the Prophet-Founder of our religion. I have been thinking a lot about what it means, to celebrate birthdays in general, but also—and especially—to celebrate the birthday of someone I… Read More Two Special Freebies For A Special Year: Celebrations and Community-Building { INCLUDES FREE PRINTABLES }
A friend of mine recently asked me how motherhood was treating me. After I was done gushing, she asked me another question that took me by surprise: “I know you love your baby, but what about babyhood, do you like that?” I have heard a lot of parents complaining about how difficult babyhood is, and… Read More Enjoying Baby Despite The Challenges of Babyhood
It’s very natural to want to create beauty in every aspect of our lives. We do, after all, have an instinctive attraction to beauty that stirs our very souls. Of course, there are, currently, quite a lot of forces at work in our society that push us towards unrealistic standards of beauty, be it impossibly… Read More Understanding Beauty. (Or Not.)
Breast milk is honestly one of the most amazing things a woman’s body is able to do. It’s the perfect food, available by request, endlessly adaptable to the need of her baby. Biologically speaking, in normal circumstances, breast milk is, indeed, the best thing a baby can eat. However, things are not that simple, are… Read More Breast is Best—In Some Situations
Extreme ways of thinking often cause us to dig ourselves into a very deep hole. I’ve done that myself quite a number of times, ending up in some very uncomfortable places. I do hope that my hole-digging days are over, but then again, just like you, I’m an imperfect human being—so hopefully there are going… Read More Money and Happiness: The Confounding Factor, Part II