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08/21/2026

Turns out, she wasn’t supposed to do this one alone.

I made my toddler a little shape activity with her magnetic tiles, and the squares?

Easy.

Then we got to the triangles. 😂

She knew exactly where they belonged, but figuring out how to turn them so they actually fit inside the outline was tricky.

So we sat there and worked through them together.

And honestly, I loved it.

Sometimes I think we put so much pressure on finding activities our kids can do independently that we forget there’s nothing wrong with them needing us.

She tried.

I helped.

We figured it out together.

And when we finally finished?

“Again!”

So we did it again.

And again.

And again. 😂

I thought it would be one little afternoon activity.

She kept coming back to it for almost two weeks.

Apparently my toddler’s review was ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐.

And I’ll happily take it. 🤍

08/16/2026

There will come a day when she’ll be too big to fall asleep on my chest.

She won’t fit so perfectly into the carrier.

My arms won’t instinctively reach to adjust the little feet tucked against me.

One day, I’ll buckle this carrier for the last time…

and I probably won’t even realize it’s the last.

That’s the funny thing about motherhood.

The biggest milestones announce themselves.

The little ones don’t.

They quietly become memories.

So today…

I’ll take the slow walk.

I’ll let her sleep a little longer.

I’ll carry the extra weight without wishing it away.

Because one day, I’d give anything to feel it again.

💕

08/13/2026

There was a time when a beach day meant grabbing a towel and heading out the door. 😎

Now…

it starts with packing HALF THE HOUSE.🥵

Snacks.
Towels.
Sunscreen.
Extra clothes.
Extra bathing suit.
Diapers.
Potty.
Formula.
Toys.
Floaties.
Garbage bags.
More snacks… just in case.
More clothes… just in case. 🫠

And then, once we FINALLY get there…

we don’t stay in one place for more than five minutes. 😅

Get to the water.
Then to the sand.
Back to the water.
Back to the sand again.
“I want to swim!”
“I want to build!”
“I want to swim again!”🥴

It’s NOT the relaxing beach day we used to have.

But somewhere between carrying ALL the things…

chasing a toddler…

and watching Julia experience the beach for the first time (which was mostly spent napping)…

I realized something.

The beach isn’t the destination anymore.

Watching them EXPERIENCE IT is.

And somehow…that feels even better.
💕

08/11/2026

There are days when the laundry is piling up.

Dinner still isn’t planned.

Someone needs a bottle.

Someone else wants a snack.

The house is loud.

My to-do list feels impossible. 🥴🥵🫠

Then I look over…

and she smiles like THIS.

For a moment, everything else disappears.

It’s amazing how someone SO little can completely change the mood of an ENTIRE room without saying a single word.

I hope she never realizes how many ordinary days she’s already made extraordinary. 💕

08/09/2026

She wasn’t about to be left out. 😂

Every time my Baby J is on her play mat, somehow Donut magically appears.

Not because anyone called her.

Not because she wants a toy.

She just refuses to miss out on whatever’s happening.

I honestly don’t know if she’s checking on Julia…

or making sure nobody forgets she’s still the baby of the family. 🤍🐶

Either way, I think it’s safe to say she’ll be keeping a close eye on her little sister. 😅

08/06/2026

Before Julia was born, this was the question that stayed in the back of my mind.

Not whether I’d love her.

I already knew that.

It was this…

Would Sienna love being a big sister?

You hope they become best friends.

You pray they’ll always have each other.

But you also know you can’t force a relationship.

Then, little by little…

I started noticing the small things.

The way Sienna looks for Julia first thing in the morning.

The toys she wants to share.

The kisses she gives without being asked.

The little hand reaching for her sister’s.

Moments like this don’t promise what their relationship will look like years from now.

But they remind me that it’s already being built…

one tiny moment at a time.

And that’s more than I could have hoped for. 💕

08/04/2026

I didn’t know this would be the last time…

Some mornings she wakes up before me.

Other mornings, I get a few quiet minutes to watch her before she opens her eyes.

Lately, I’ve loved waiting for that moment.

She hears my voice…

searches the room…

finds my face…

and then smiles.

It’s such a tiny part of our day.

The kind of moment you never think twice about while you’re living it.

A few days after I recorded this, she outgrew her bassinet.

Just like that…

No countdown.

No special goodbye.

Just another reminder that motherhood is full of little endings you don’t recognize until they’re already behind you.

I’m so grateful I pressed record.

08/02/2026

One of my favourite parts of motherhood wasn’t something I expected.

It was never on a baby registry.

No one mentioned it in parenting books.

No one warned me it would become one of my favourite traditions.

Family hugs.

Somewhere along the way, Sienna started asking for them.

Sometimes they’re completely random.

We’ll be walking through the house…

cleaning up toys…

or in the middle of an ordinary day…

and she’ll stop what she’s doing and say,

“Family hug!”

For a few seconds, everything else waits.

No phones.

No to-do lists.

No rushing to the next thing.

Just the four of us.

I have a feeling that years from now, I won’t remember what we were doing before those hugs.

But I’ll remember how it felt when four hearts squeezed into one little moment.

And I hope she never stops asking for them. 🤍

07/29/2026

There are days when I try everything.

A dark room.

White noise.

Rocking.

Bouncing.

A full tummy.

A clean diaper.

The bassinet.

The crib.

The baby carrier.

Even a ride in the car….

And somehow the only thing that works is THIS. 😅

A stroller walk in fresh air with a baby who FINALLY decides it’s safe to close her eyes.

Before becoming a mom, I used to think there was always a “right” answer.

The right routine.

The right schedule.

The right way to get a baby to sleep.

Now I’m realizing that motherhood is a lot LESS about finding the perfect solution…

…and a lot more about figuring out what works TODAY.

Because tomorrow?

It’ll probably be something completely different. 😂

Motherhood has definitely made me more flexible than I ever thought I’d be.

And I’m pretty sure that’s a good thing. 💕

07/27/2026

There are still days I catch my reflection and think…

“That doesn’t feel like me.”

My face looks different.

My body feels different.

Even my clothes fit differently. Or don’t quite fit at all 🥴

And if I’m being completely honest, this picture was really hard to post.

I miss the version of myself I knew before becoming a mom.

For a while, I thought feeling that way meant I wasn’t grateful enough for what it has given me.

But motherhood keeps teaching me that two things can be true at the same time.

I can miss my old body…

…and be incredibly thankful for everything this one has done.

This body carried two healthy girls.

It protected them.

It grew them.

It brought them safely into the world.

And now it still carries them…whether it’s a sleepy newborn curled up against my chest or my firstborn asking, “Up Mommy!”

I’m learning to stop measuring my body by how quickly it “bounces back.”

Instead, I’m trying to see it through the eyes of my daughters.

I hope they grow up seeing a mom who spoke to herself with kindness.

A mom who appreciated her body for everything it allowed her to do…not just how it looked.

It kind of brings me to tears saying that out loud.

I’m definitely not fully in the right headspace yet.

But I’m learning to see my body differently now. 💕

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