On the Last Day of Mental Health Awareness Month
A few years ago, I was scrolling through the sub on Reddit for my mental health diagnosis. I’m not sure what brought me to the sub that day in the first place, but my eye was caught by a post someone made about feeling guilty for having had children after her diagnosis because research suggests that many mood and mental disorders could have a hereditary component and she felt that any future diagnoses her children might receive would be her “fault.”
Claire’s Big Girl Bedroom
… So there we have it: the plan for Claire’s big girl bedroom, repurposing items from around the house as much as possible but buying new where needed. Of course, this is predicated on the structural changes we want to make to the back of the house being included in phase one of the renovation - cross your fingers for us, please!
On Core Memories
In an Instagram reel a few days ago, I said I thought that the idea that we can influence our kids’ core memories is bullshit…
Home Office Design: Reality Bites
This probably won’t be the last moodboard you see for our eventual home office - God knows how many iterations we’re going to go through before finalizing our furniture and layout choices - but being able to post them here with a narrative is actually really helpful for thinking through everything.
I still like the theory behind my original design, but upgrading to a wider desk to acommodate an external monitor means…