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Mia

Mother to two Tiny Terrors Ball of anxiety, terrible girlfriend. I have a lot of opinions, they are always right. I swear too much and don't like dogs. Attempting to make sense of motherhood, stay semi-sane, and not completely fall apart.

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May 12, 2017
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Vote. Vote loudly. Vote tactically. Vote strongly. Vote kindly. Vote like it’s not just for you. Vote for the family surviving on food banks, dreading the Christmas holidays because their children will lose the meal they’re fed at school. Vote for the people killing themselves while waiting months (sometimes years) for mental health treatments. Vote for the disabled children who can no longer get the support they need. Vote for the woman who can’t leave her abusive husband because the support isn’t there. Vote for the man having a panic attack in hospital because if he misses his Universal Credit interview he loses his money - and illness isn’t an excuse. Vote for Grenfell. Vote for Windrush. Vote for ‘letter boxes’. Vote for ‘tank-topped bumboys’. Vote for ‘drunk, criminal, aimless, feckless, and hopeless’ working class men. Vote for ‘ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive, and illegitimate’ children of single mothers. (Yes, all quotes from the Prime Minister) Vote like one party has been found to lie in 80% of their campaign ads. Vote like another has lied in 0. Vote like the papers who smear and lie and hate are funded by billionaire Tories. (Because they are) Vote for their voting record. Vote like you’re not a billionaire. Vote like you can’t afford to lose our NHS. Vote like our planet is on fire. Vote for our children. All of our children. Vote like your privilege has been taken away. Vote for change. Vote like the past 9 years happened. Vote for the many, not the few. #GetTheToriesOut
We were sent this AMAZING new, independant Christmas book. The story of Mushy Pea, who on Christmas Eve is shrunk down to the size of a pea and has to find her way back home. I love finding new books, even better ones that mean supporting new authors and illustrators! A wanted to write her very first #20SecondBookReview for you and your small people, so I’ll let her take it from here! 👩🏼 Did you like the book? 👧🏼 Yes, because it got me in the Christmas mood. 👩🏼 What were your favourite bits? 👧🏼 I liked the middle bit because there were more adventurous parts. 👩🏼 Do you think other people would like it? 👧🏼 Yes because it tells people how magical Christmas is. 👩🏼 How did you feel after you read the book? (She actually wrote this question for herself! 😭) 👧🏼 I felt happy and magical because she acted rude at the start but as time passed she became more and more kind. 👩🏼 Describe the book in three words. 👧🏼 Festive, funny, adventurous. Well if that doesn’t sell it, what will?! Head to my stories for the aff link.
I redid the whole thing as soon as they went to bed, but this photo makes us look cute and wholesome.
A post of gratitude for these idiots and the rest of Aaron’s face not pictured.
This. Kid. 🥰 Please send help, I’ve started a HUGE sort out of the kids rooms (and landing) so I can be a wonder woman and give them brand new rooms and play space tomorrow. I regret it all. Thank god for this idiot and his make up keeping me sane!
Mental health and physical health are equated all the time. Usually in terms of broken legs not healing instantly or insulin not being a medication that’s judged. But we never really seem to talk about how interlinked the two truly are. Depression causes me to have pounding headaches, muscle pain, sickness, and overwhelming exhaustion. Anxiety has made me vomit on the street and I’ve been unable to breath so drastically that I thought I was truly about to die. And then today, I’ve got what we think is food poisoning. Not even 24 hours of sickness yet and my mind is spiralling. I can feel myself falling down into a darkness I just crawled out of. I feel useless and alone and forgotten and weak and just fucking sad. I cannot tell you how much respect I have for people who are living with chronic illness and pain, I will never know where you find the strength to get up each day. Mental illness and physical illness. I really don’t think they’re separate categories. So that’s where my brain is today, I’m off to bed to finish some work then dive headfirst into Sims.
Some of us were hanging out with Jeremy Corbyn. Some of us were multi-tasking counting cash, matching eggs, watching videos, and looking STYLISH.
Oh me? Just browsing Rightmove for Falmouth rentals... We need our beach baby life back. (Although if anybody local can explain to me HOW St Michael’s got planning through I would love to know. Gross.)
Salt water runs in my veins. It’s here that I’m home. It calms me. It earths me. Its power is so much stronger than anything I could ever encounter. I will always feel its call, but until I stand this close I never realise how bad I needed to be here. Nothing is as magical as a stormy sea. (I totally forgot how much my hair is after washing in Cornish water as well! It’s like my entire body just needs to be here.)
That. Was. Fun! A night of wine, women, and murder - what’s not to love?! @flendog_ @poor_jo_jo @hannahlouloader @inkandtot @caroline.raisingthebars @alicej_t - what a crew! 🥂

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