Since starting my motherhood journey life feels as if it has just been a series of questions. I’m finding and sharing the answers in this mom to mom blog.

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To begin with finding the right answers was hard. Not to mention time consuming. I found myself second guessing myself often. Answers often led to more questions and more confusion. Now, as our family continues to grow so has my confidence, as has my faith in my own instincts. Now I’m less afraid to jump into new choices and try new things when it comes to our family. I have accepted that not everything that works for one family will work for ours. Not everything we have tried has worked. Now that I am further into my motherhood journey, my failures worry me less. I’m quicker to try alternative options. I love researching new ways of doing things, and assessing the abundance of information that’s out there. While at times its still hard to silence the noise of other opinions. I now understand that it’s okay, necessary even, to try, try and try again until you find the right fit for your family and your season of life.

I’m guessing that if you’re reading this then you have questions of your own. I hope that you find this mom to mom blog a source of information, companionship & inspiration. If nothing else, I hope it provides you with a few giggles as I navigate my way through the ups and downs of motherhood.

Each week I will be sharing the experiences, successes and failures of our family life. Topics like potty training our one-year old, our private home birth story, cloth nappies, using glass plates for our toddler, Lovevery Play Gym review, and colostrum harvesting while pregnant.

Motherhood has been a wild adventure so far. I am very much a person who questions everything, who likes to research and new try things, maybe a little off the beaten path. I do a combination of cloth and disposable nappies and wipes, I don’t own a steriliser and had a home birth without using the NHS. We’ve sleep trained, co-slept, and ruled out floor beds.

Since entering motherhood I have encountered a lot of questions from other mums, and have had a lot of my own. We don’t necessarily make the same choices, but it’s been such a blessing to share our experiences. The more I’ve spoken to other mother’s, the more I’ve realised just how ‘alternative’ some of our own choices have been. I’ve loved sharing our unique perspective, and have been blown away by the positivity and curiosity that I have encountered. That’s how this mom to mom blog came about. After a series of back and forth text messages with a mum-to-be, I was asked ‘why I don’t have a blog’… so now I do.

As our family grows, and my first born gets older, the more I have learnt, tried and tested. I’ve also realised how quickly new problems arise and how many solutions there are to choose from. I love being a mum, but let’s face it, it’s not easy! Finding the ‘right information for you’ can be hard and time consuming. With that in mind, I hope that this mom to mom blog helps someone encountering the same challenges.

Motherhood can be lonely at times, and I’ve found comfort and companionship in learning from other mums online. As our family grows and grows up, baby classes and real life interactions with other mums become harder. Just the other day I was at a play date with another mum and her son. Between requests for the potty, snacks, disputes over toys and the unavoidable bumps and bruises that come hand-in-hand with managing toddlers, we didn’t get to finish a single conversation. This scenario is repeated only too often. Of course, there’s nothing wrong with that. It’s all part and parcel with my current season of life. But it does make swapping ideas, problems and solutions difficult with my mum friends in real life. That’s why more often than not I turn to the internet or social media for the answer to my latest motherhood, homemaking or marriage question. It’s also where I often find comfort and solidarity with other mums. While the age of the internet definitely has its downsides. Our ability to connect online is amazing. It has offered me the opportunity to view parenting styles from different countries and cultures. I have been able to find solace from the mirrored motherhood problems faced by mums I’ve never even met. While of course real-life interactions are still invaluable, I have been able to learn so much from other families online. All of whom have been gracious enough to share snippets of their family life with me. Now, I’m giving back a little too.

While my motherhood journey is my main focus, I’ll also (hopefully) be writing about my experiences as a homemaker and wife. Very much like motherhood, my experience transitioning into the role of ‘wife’ has had it’s share of ups and downs. Especially after adding newborns into the married life equation. Given the speed of our engagement, marriage and then arrival of not one but two babies, (all within three years), I think my husband and I have navigated the whirlwind of married life pretty well. Just like my parenting journey, I hope to share the problems faced and overcome in our married life. (Whilst of course maintaining our privacy.)

Already I have found this blog a very cathartic experience. It has forced me to reflect on my wins as a mum, as well as my failures. It has provided valuable perspective. It has highlighted both the hard times and the good times. I hope that as I continue to write and reflect I continue to grow, and become a better wife and mother because of it. I also hope, that when I am no longer in this special season of life, that I can look back and remember the details of young family life that I will no doubt treasure forever.

As well as writing this mom to mom blog I will also be sharing weekly recipes, designed to suit the chaos that is family life. I’ve always loved cooking from scratch. Trying, testing and creating new recipes is something that I have been doing for years. Now that we have a family I am experimenting in the kitchen more than ever before. My focus is on healthy, whole foods. More often than not my recipes can be made in bulk, for future use. I strive to introduce as much variety as possible into our meals, in the hope that my children will enjoy a wide range of foods as adults. My husband and I love our food, and are definitely not picky eaters. While my husbands talents lie (far) outside the kitchen, I grew up surrounded by home cooks. Influenced heavily by both my mum, grandma and auntie, my recipes are family focused. If you’d like some inspiration for your own family dinners. Or lunch ideas for your growing toddler then check out our Recipe Index here.

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About the author – Olivia Henny

Olivia Henny is a wife and mother to two young daughters. She is now pregnant with their third child. She lives with her husband in the North East of the UK. Their home is nestled in the British countryside, but not too far from a neighbouring city. Olivia writes from her own motherhood experience. As well as drawing from the experience and advice of other families and Mums, who she has interviewed for certain blog posts. Olivia loves being a mother and wife, and enjoys learning from the experience of other Mums online. Feeling that the online motherhood community has helped her so much in her own parenting journey. She would now like to give something back. Hoping that other Mums will find solidarity, inspiration, laughter and information from her motherhood and homemaking blogs.

Olivia is passionate about food and the health of her family. She already has decades of experience experimenting in the kitchen alongside her late Grandmother. Taking that experience and desire to create wholesome food, she is now sharing her family recipes here. She hopes to inspire other young families to cook from-scratch whole food. She feels that the kitchen is the heart of any home. Food having the power to make memories and bring people together.

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