I love coffee. This blog kinda runs on coffee. However. Recently, I’ve been really stressed and looking at ways to help my overall anxiety. Would cutting out coffee help my insomnia, too? My husband sleeps so well, I was getting jealous. And could I do more during the day with coffee, or without it? Is coffee culture just a social thing? I’m not a quitter, but when I do, it’s cold turkey. (I’m also not a doctor, maybe don’t try…
And so, last weekend we piled into the car on a road trip to get Isla’s uniform and school supplies. The kid starts Primary 1 next week, and she is the only one ready for this. There we are in the car with the heat on because we already had summer. For three days in London. I’ve been looking for ways to stall this growing up thing for a while now. Which is why we left the shopping trip to…
It’s a well-known fact that I’m a book lover/hoarder. My three book cases are triple-stacked and my bedside table type thing is a tower of books. I clear book stacks from the kitchen table, because the kitchen table is my home office. I finish reading books and instead of getting them out of the house I um, suggest that my husband read them. I have yet to watch Marie Kondo, because I think I would find it really quite stressful.…
Something happens to me in the Spring. Maybe it’s because it’s my birthday season, but I start to feel crowded and aware of all the memories junk memories laying around. I mainly write at the kitchen table with stacks of stuff around me. Notebooks, books, balloons, Monopoly money. (The product links in this post are Amazon affiliate links, I make a small commission if you make a US or UK purchase through them. Read my disclosure here.) Last week, I came…
The product links in this post are Amazon affiliate links, I make a small commission if you make a UK or US purchase through them, at no extra cost to you. Read my disclosure here And so, the fam and I have a wedding to go to pretty soon. I never knew I could stress so much over someone else’s wedding. The last wedding Neil and I went to (that wasn’t our wedding) turned out to be five days before Isla…





