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December’s external expectation feels the same: keep going, keep smiling, keep creating something special. December is a month where we are often expected to be so much. To make magic. To organise, plan, remember, anticipate, and soothe. It’s a busy, intense time in the middle of winter, a season when the rest of the natural world sits still. Animals retreat. Plants rest. Yet here we are, doing more. A huge surge of energy, even while the land is dormant. In older understandi

“Enjoy every minute” is one of my hated phrases that’s said to new parents. It is usually well-meaning, with no harm intended, but it often comes from people who are far enough away from those early days that they have forgotten how incredibly hard it can be to actually enjoy every minute. As a mum of two, I know that the days are long, yet the years are oh so short. Time flies in a whirl of motherhood and the day to day. One moment tiny hands are placed in yours, and the nex