Sunday Reads

• Sleep training. That’s all.
• Women and their relationship with alcohol – such diversity in thought. Lovely read and the comments are a gem as usual.
• Travel essentials for a family
• Activities for your five year old
• Iris Apfel Has Died at 102
• This is why sleepovers for kiddos are a HARD NO.
• NPR Tiny Desk is so cool.
• When did it ever make sense to have a subscribe-only segment where you post kids of your girl in skimpy/ revealing clothes?

Recipes

•  roasted veggie enchilada 
• Veggy and halloumi galette (from a dear reader)
• Creamy Garlic Chicken
• Shrimp Linguine

Sunday Reads

• We all know the monobloc plastic chair, right?
• Would you rather questions for couples?
• Sleep training should be my side hustle, really!!
• Wall Pilates sounds fun and cheap.
• The Best Pilates Exercises To Do Every Day, According To Trainers
• Raising financially savvy kids
• The actual cost of breastfeeding
• What is motherhood imposter syndrome?

Recipes

• The most amazing canned tuna pasta
• Zucchini Recipes
• Chicken And Rice
• Various Spinach Recipes

Sunday Reads

• Ways to Lead and Love Your Wife (and Husband)
• Moving to a new city is emotional but the 20’s is the best time to do it.
• Why is learning not adapting to the current times?
• Reader’s block is a thing.
• Book recommendations for high schoolers.
• When you feel like you are wasting your life.

Recipes

• Salads Without Lettuce
• 10 Simple Tricks for Better Home-Brewed Coffee
• Easy Vegetarian Recipes
• Sometimes I work from home and it would be nice to have a variety of lunch recipes to save myself eating cereal or cheese sandwiches.
• Chicken and rice recipes, so yum

Sunday Reads (Parenting edition)

•  Sensory play activities to stimulate your toddler’s beautiful brain 
• Family Traditions To Start With Your Kids
• What To Do For A Baby With A Cough
• Conversation Starters For Kids
• When Motherhood Doesn’t Go as Planned
• Traveling with kids. Products to help.
• Questions about your newborn – asked and answered
• The Best History Podcasts For Kids
• Pumping techniques and tips

Recipes

• School Morning Breakfast Ideas That Are So Easy
• 17 Easy Recipes For Breastfeeding Moms That Are Simple & Healthy
• Serving kids veggies
• Five ingredient meals for the entire family

Sunday Reads

• The Absurd Logistics of Concert Tours
• What a douchebag
• Climate change and its’ effect on people
• Is your kid a picky eater? Here are some tips to help.
• I am really trying to introduce house plants. Like I really want it.
• Book recommendations from a fave podcast
• What happens to all those unaired pilots?
• Emotional labour and marriage …
• … and how one partner helps out his wife when she solo parents

Recipes

• 22 One-Pot Meals Without Pasta To Feed Your Whole Tired-Of-Spaghetti Family
• Cooking lasagna this week.
• Sticky Pork Ribs with Mango BBQ sauce
• Lemon Herb Pearl Couscous Salad with Chickpeas
• Creamy Pasta Recipes
• 5-Ingredient Meals

Sunday Reads

• 5 Bible Resources for Struggling Readers
• What do you and your friends do together when you hang out?
• How do babies learn?
• I really miss doing Pilates in a group setting
• Travelling as a family on a budget
• I love the idea of a basic set of things you have to teach your children to make them fully functioning adults, will post more on that later.
• The productivity of working moms
• Free workouts you can stream on YouTube

Recipes

• Yummy pasta recipes
• Shrimp Lettuce Wraps
• Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
• Chickpea recipes

Sunday Reads

• Ever wondered how they make lace?
• Are you looking for TV Show recommendations? BTW, I thought White Lotus was OVERRATED.
• Some romantic gestures for you and your plus one
• Hard Launch Caption Ideas For Instagram
• When Motherhood Doesn’t Go as Planned
• Kid-friendly podcasts
• Cleaning your dutch oven
• Financial literacy and little people
• Why do men take so long to poop?
• Pitfalls of the soft life
• Is Therapy-Speak Making Us Selfish? DEFINITELY YES
• 8 Things Girls Need To Hear Their Father Say At Home

Recipes

• Yummy salads
• Salisbury steak meatballs with mushroom gravy
• Lentil soup recipes
• Jamaican rice and peas (beans)
• Pasta alla Norma
• A quick and yummy tuna pasta recipe

Sunday Reads

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• A super list of Best Books in 2022
• Talking to kids about money and saving
• A Guide To ‘The Real Housewives’ Beauty Brands (All 52 Of Them)
• 4 Ways Feminism Misunderstands Motherhood
• Keep calm and manage your emotions during the holidays
• Already feeling lighter as I won’t be spending Christmas with the in-laws but here’s how you can set up boundaries if you are.
• Do people still send Christmas cards and if so how do you display them?

Recipes

• I want to bake these cookies with the young lady.
• Fluffy Vegan Pumpkin Pancakes with Toasted Pecans
• I love me some lasagna

Sunday Reads

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• You don’t have to be the perfect parent—be the parent you want them to remember
• What Is After-School Restraint Collapse And How To Help Your Kid
• Moms are the ‘default parent’ because we live in a patriarchy
• Better than a baby shower, me thinks 🙂
• 78 Questions For Couples to Help Get to Know Each Other Better
• Dealing with the mental load of parenting (besides SCREAMING and being passive aggressive)
• 6 strategies that will make you a better reader — and person. I especially like #1, when I stopped reading books I did not enjoy, my life was immediately transformed.

Recipes

• Family-friendly batch meals
• Tender ox-tail
• Vegetable Biryani
• Shrimp recipes
• Yummy yummy yummy Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream
• Enchilladas with lovely sauce

Sunday Reads

• What happens when you share your name with the pandemic?
• Ever heard of a prison fixer? Yep – its a thing.
• Stories of infertility. What happens when it takes longer than you think and you still have no solution?
• 5 types of baby books that boost their brain and teach them to love reading
• Raising Bible friendly kids
• How to lessen the load as the default parent
• 9 Things Boys Need To Hear From Their Father At Home

Recipes

• Vegetable Fried Rice
• Birthday Cake Cookies
• Tuna Tacos with Cilantro Lime Slaw
• Eggs with chickpeas, spinach and tomato

niteflix

Dreams so complex in plot and rich in production value that they seem like feature length films.

Sunday Reads

• Being a working mom from both sides of the coin
• How are you doing on your personal goals so far?
• Personal clutter to prioritise
• I love the idea of personal coupons for kids to cash in
• Toilet paper roll craft ideas
• Simple relationship goals
• Traveling with kids – all tips always welcome
• … how To Swab A Baby For Covid-19

Recipes

• Making cake pops 🙂
• Healthy breakfast ideas
• Birthday Cake Cookies
• Homemade Granola

Sunday (Cooking) Reads

Happy Easter!! Our Lord and Saviour is risen

• Coffee and Walnut Loaf
• Butternut squash salad
• Various winter soups
• Chicken yassa (braised chicken with caramelised onions)
• Healthy salad dressings
• Black bean tacos
• Tuna salad

Sunday Reads

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• 17 mess-free summer craft ideas for kiddos (because we know that schools are closing for the year)
• … and more ways to keep them entertained at home.

• Tips for those of us who will be flying with kids over the break.
• Packing light when travelling with kids.
• Dental tips for little people from Instagram Dentists.
• At-home date night ideas.
• Sharing the mental load with your partner. #2 and #3 are my personal faves and something that I am trying to include in our set up.
• The importance of praying when you don’t feel like it.
• Now I want to move to a new city and start over.

Recipes

• Warming whiskey cocktails
• Cooking black beans and black bean enchilladas.
• Other bean recipes
• Chicken enchilladas.
• Poached eggs, Yummy
• Lunch wraps
• I’m always here for pretty salads like this one with beets and goats cheese.
• Roasted vegetable pasta

Sunday Reads

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Brene Brown’s simple advice for parenting when you feel like there’s nothing left to give. So useful for this time but a good tip to have with your partner or co parent.

Also, some productivity strategies for moms who are stressed about doing it all.

So many ethical questions in this piece but I loved reading this profile of a professional baby maker.

How people use their time reveals so much about them and their position relative to various other markers: class,citizenship, gender and other privilege.

… also, moms do not get much time to spend on themselves.

Young Mom, You Can Read the Bible

Although unpopular, I have read some very thoughtful pieces on the fluidity of gender from a Christian perspective and that has been very educative.

Because we always need tips on how to organise our kitchens.

Recipes

Oatmeal Pancakes

Salmon Patties (Salmon Cakes!)

More salmon recipes here

A Lemony-Perfect Pot of Rice

Yogurt Marinated Chicken

Sunday (Cooks)

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• Crispy Chickpea Rice Pilaf
• Home-made ice cream recipes
• Simple jeera (cumin) rice
• Sugar bean curry
• More chicken recipes
• Mediterranean White Bean Salad
• Harissa-Braised Eggplant
• Pesto Shrimp Pasta
• Roasted Vegetable Baked Penne
• I love a good mac and cheese
• Apple Cinnamon Pancakes
• chickpea and kale shakshuka

Some meal prep help is alway helpful

Sunday Reads

• We are all experiencing anticipatory grief.
• and finally acceptance in quarantine
• Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God?
• Here’s how to Clean Your Yoga Mat.
• I am more than just a mama
• Why You Have to Poop in the Morning, According to Science
• Can the Roman Catholic Church Survive Two Popes?
• How to keep quarantine from ruining your marriage
• More involved dads are good for kids (and themselves)

Recipes

• Roasted Cauliflower Pasta
• Chicken Parmesan Meatballs
• Chimichurri Chickpea Salad
• Green Chile Chicken Enchiladas
• Harissa-Braised Eggplant

Sunday Listens (Podcast edition)

Over the holiday I got a bit tired of listening to the same subscribed podcast content so I challenged myself to listen to shows I wouldn’t normally do or I had heard but did not want to commit to full subscription just yet. So here are some of those fantastic episodes.

• Young Love – Where should we begin by Esther Perel.
• I felt my back stand up when I first listened to her views on infidelity so I wasn’t open at all but I liked it so much I listened to this other episode on sexlessness.
• Radio Diaries’ Teenage Diariesrevisited. I love that kind of radio soooo much. I was hanging on the edge of my seat listening. Definitely subscribing.  As a teen I would have loved to participate in such an activity, to be honest, even now I would.
• Other episode I loved was Thembi’s Diary.
• BBC Woman’s Hour had a phone-in on Monday on #Megxit. Hot mess.
• I love that Motherhood Sessions is back but jeez that first episode? Messy.
• Borders Between Us by The Nod stressed to me how as parents we do the best for our kids and hope.
• I have been listening to this podcast following three pregnant teens (ethics and judgment suspended) and in this episode we meet four generations of teen moms in one family. Give it a listen, it’s nothing like what you expect.
• Still Processingdiscussed Michelle Obama’s book Becoming. JUST GO AND LISTEN. IT’S GOOD.

I know it’s a lot but do yourself a favour and just listen.

Sunday Reads

• The lies parents tell to keep peace and sanity around the house.
• May the Church of God continue to stand strong always.
• Just read a bit of the Word, regardless.
• This little baby made my day.
• These lessons can easily apply to any new job.
• Oh New York how much I love thee

Recipes

• Cilantro Lime Dressing
• More pasta recipes
• Must try this: Blueberry Ginger Sorbet
• Chicken breast recipes
• Chickpeas stew

Sunday Reads

• Why Farts Smell Different When They Come From Your Family
• Because no one has a manual for a great marriage.
• Opportunities for the writers in the house.
• How do you invent a new language? This is how.
• Sorting out clutter around your house.
• For some great African book recommendations.

Sunday Reads

• I loved this story of how food bridged the gap between the mainstream culture and “the other”.
• Relating your faith and child discipline.
• I loved Asma Khan’s episode of Chef’s Table.
• I love a good playlist and have gotten started on this one.
• This teacher deserves an award.

Recipes

• 10 Cozy and Quick to make Vegetarian Dinners 
• Some more potato recipes