Let’s face it. Mornings with children are not peaceful, Instagrammable moments involving herbal tea and gentle yoga. No. They are more like a caffeinated sprint through a field of Lego while yelling about socks. Before 9AM, most mums have already lived an entire lifetime. We have solved wardrobe crises, located missing book bags, mediated sibling…

Somewhere between the last Barbie phase and their first eye-roll lies the mysterious realm of the tween years - that emotionally chaotic no man’s land between childhood and teenagehood. If you’re a mum staring down the barrel of a 10th birthday candle, grab a cuppa, because I’m about to spill the tea on everything I…

The Moment You Realised You Were Disappearing It’s subtle at first. You swap your name for “Mummy” without thinking. Your hobbies shrink down to children’s crafts. Your Google search history becomes a shrine to other people’s needs. Then one day, standing in front of a mirror, you catch a glimpse of a woman you barely…

You Know the Feeling You know those days where you feel like you’ve done everything, but nothing shows for it? You didn’t sit down. You didn’t stop thinking. And yet, somehow, there are still socks under the sofa, mystery crumbs in your bra, and nobody seems to know when the last time the fish got…

You open Instagram for “a quick scroll” and there she is. The mum who somehow has matching outfits, a spotless kitchen, three smiling children, a designer stroller and what appears to be… joy in her eyes? And just like that, you feel like a gremlin with a crumb-filled bra and four-day-old dry shampoo. Congratulations. You’ve…