Surviving Parenthood ⋆ Forever Amber: An Awkward Girl's Guide to Absolutely Everything

How I Juggle a Baby, A Business and Everything Else

January 20, 2020 6 Comments 9 min read

Last week I was asked how I manage to juggle a blogging business with looking after a toddler: here’s the honest answer…

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7 Things I Swore I’d Never Do as a Parent, And Yet Here We Are

January 10, 2020 18 Comments 0 min read

Like most parents, we had the very best of intentions. And, also like most parents, we didn’t quite manage to stick to all of them…

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Why It’s OK Not to Enjoy Every Minute

January 6, 2020 30 Comments 6 min read

I can’t possibly be the only person on social media who didn’t just have the best decade ever… can I?

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11 Things I Didn’t Know About Toddlers Until I Had One

November 26, 2019November 27, 2019 6 Comments 10 min read

Some random thoughts on my second year of parenthood, and what it’s like raising a toddler…

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If your kid is wearing a half-assed Halloween costume today, come sit with me…

October 31, 2019 21 Comments 8 min read

Does a 1 year old really NEED a Halloween costume, though? Asking for a friend…

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Trying to leave the house with a toddler is like breaking out of Alcatraz

October 21, 2019October 30, 2019 8 Comments 4 min read

It also has the ability to totally warp time, not even joking.

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The Hardest Thing About Parenthood is All the People You Have to Talk To

October 14, 2019October 15, 2019 26 Comments 6 min read

Because parenthood can be tough for the over-thinkers of the world. Here are some of my thoughts on parenting when you have social anxiety (or are just a bit anti-social, really…)

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11 Things I Miss About Life Before Children

September 23, 2019November 27, 2019 26 Comments 8 min read

When you have children, you temporarily say goodbye to some aspects of your old life. These are the things I miss most about life BC…

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What’s the hardest stage of parenthood?

August 6, 2019November 25, 2019 23 Comments 5 min read

When Max was tiny, I thought parenting a newborn must surely be the hardest thing in the entire world. I was wrong…

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Anxious Girl Issues Surviving Parenthood

Parenting With Anxiety

July 15, 2019October 15, 2019 18 Comments 6 min read

What it’s like to parent when every single day brings something new to worry about…

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Can you still call it ‘baby brain’ 18 months later?

June 26, 2019September 4, 2019 19 Comments 6 min read

Is ‘baby brain’ real, or am I just getting more and more absent-minded?

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4 Things That Make Holidaying With a Toddler Harder Than Nuclear Physics*

May 24, 2019October 6, 2019 6 Comments 4 min read

(*Not actually true.) (*Close, though.) So. we’re having a fantastic time here in central Florida, and not even the weird splotches of fake tan on my foot can dampen my enthusiasm for being back in a place where it’s sunny all the time, and the local ZARA is open until 11pm …

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