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this post is written as a journalling exercise to help myself to break down this repetitive reflection I have, and turn it from pain to force...

if it can assist someone's reflection too, I will be happy

if it's not your cup of tea, for whatever reason, enjoy the photo of me in a beautiful navy dress I got in Galway :D

cheers.

#parenthood #parenting by @hellomeetmein

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a month ago

walks w my babah in #Ireland taken in Flaggy Shore, Newquay, co. Clare by @hellomeetmein

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2 months ago

one year with the babah: Part II, motherhood

I thought for days what to write

and realised one thing:

despite all the challenges,

this part of my life is the one that brings me most joy, most happiness

I never laugh at anything or with anyone as much as I laugh with Adam. he is the most cheerful and the goofiest person on the planet. his giggles are so contagious that sometimes I cannot stop laughing until my belly hurts and my eyes water

I never feel happier as when I'm with him. the feeling goes through my whole body when he calls me MAMA or when he smiles when seeing me first thing after a nap. his wet awkward kisses melt my heart. the happiness I feel with him is so wholesome and just beautiful

I love him so much and it feels the world to be someone's world. to know that when he crawls towards me and hugs my legs, and I take him into my arms - it's his safest place, his most favourite place; where the sweetest and softest dreams come to him, no nigthmare ever allowed...

it's so much, this is such an overwhelming responsibility. I miss being carefree. I miss having MY schedule. I miss chilling with a book for hours on a lazy Saturday. I miss being spontaneous. I miss many many things from my OLD life...

but these will come back. and the moments we are experiencing now will fleet in a second...

#parenthood #love taken in Geneva, Switzerland by @hellomeetmein

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3 months ago

if everything else fails, at least something I'm doing well in my life - because my babah is living his happiest childhood <3 taken in Weissenstein by @hellomeetmein

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3 months ago

one year with the babah, Part 1: LOVE

I knew I will love him more than ahything or anyone, before he was even born

but this new love is beyond anything I could have imagined

I look at him and see the most wonderful/beautiful/amazing being on the planet

I want to make him happy, I want to hear him laugh, I want to hug his little body or squeeze his chubby legs, I want to be with him every day, and no dream, or plan, or any parallel life could be now possible without him in the picture

I always wanted to be a mommy, and he made me one. I always hoped to be a _good_ mommy, and he makes me feel like at least one thing in this world I do right

sometimes I am the only person who knows how to calm him down or to put asleep (see the pic) or to make him happy, and it feels like the greatest superpower!

he is perfect to me and I will make sure he knows what unconditional love is - and it will forever guide him through challenges and gloomy days, because this one thing will never ever change until my last breath

I'm so grateful for him, this always cheerful, laughing, content boy, and cannot wait to know him better during the next 120 years of our lives together

happy first year of making your parenrs very happy, my babah <3

#parenthood by @hellomeetmein

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3 months ago

I'm really really scared that this is indeed the coldest summer of our lives :(

#climateanxiety #heatwave taken in Geneva, Switzerland by @hellomeetmein

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3 months ago

#parenthood #instagram taken in Lavey-Morcles by @hellomeetmein

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3 months ago

one day my human right to sleep will be respected in full ;D

one beautiful beautiful day...

#parenthood by @hellomeetmein

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4 months ago

● so this book was never on my TBR list nor I've ever heard of it before...

● Egyptian history is something which always tickled my curiosity receptors but I've never pursued this interest further...

● this book popped up on my audiobook app's "celebrating female writers month" list and I've tried few others (all non-fiction)... but only this one I enjoyed so profoundly and finished in record time (it's 9h long!!!...)

>>>> more thoughs in the photo gallery--->>>>> but shortly: Inspiring, empowering book, so happy I found it.

#Egypt #feministbook #book #KaraCooney #empowering by @hellomeetmein

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4 months ago

[another one on the duality of parenthood]:

when you cannot wait to escape your routine life of patchy sleep and non-negotiable schedules, when your time is not your own, and you just want a day - or two - of feeling like your _old_free_self_, that version 1.0... when you are so happy to stretch your brunch for hours, and lead conversations to their never-end, and to sleep that night in one go, and to be carefree, even if temporary...

...and, at the same time, get so upset that your flight/train/bus got delayed, and it means you won't come home before he falls asleep, and then you want to cry because everything you wanted today - or ever, in your life, really, truly wanted - is to kiss him goodnight, and cuddle and squeeze those little chubby arms, and smell his head, and let his beautiful, happy smile, the moment he sees you, to wrap you in a cosy soft blanket of love...

what a roller-coaster, to be a parent. it tears you apart, while at the same time making you feel wholesome as you've never felt before...

#parenthood #motherhood #reallife by @hellomeetmein

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4 months ago

take a break...

#Adelboden #Switzerland taken in Adelboden, Switzerland by @hellomeetmein

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4 months ago

two things can be true at the same time -

u can love your baby more than anything, cannot imagine your life without them (anymore)

and at the same time be extremely tired and frustrated of parenthood, and want a break from it (which will never come).

this sometimes controversial duality of being a parent is ever-lasting and touching all kind of moments, and emotions, and milestones;

it surprises you, sometimes angers you.

I wonder now more then ever: why does the society talks so little (especially, in art forms - movies, literature, music, etc.) about parenthood, in essence, the best soil for a melodramatic comedy, focusing so much on other themes - any, but this - HUGE - one?

I wish we talked more openly about it, and it would become a normal - or popular - culture, not a niche you need to search for.

(I am forever your truth-teller ;D)

#foodforthoughts #parenthood #thinkingoutloud by @hellomeetmein

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