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Some things I’ve learned while living in the UK

Some things I’ve learned while living in the UK for the past 4 1/2 years:

👉🏼 Local communities are more tight-knit and supportive of each other, especially in towns like Leighton Buzzard
👉🏼People love a good queue, even if they don’t know what it’s for 🥲
👉🏼 Babies/Toddlers + kids, in general, are spoiled with numerous activities and amusement parks to choose from, unlike in Canada
👉🏼 People here don’t understand the importance of a window screen and happily live alongside every spider & creature in their house😳
👉🏼 Texts + emails will end with kisses (x) and are not flirtatious—I now can’t send a text without it otherwise I feel like I’m being aggressive 😂
👉🏼 When Brits ask “you alright?”, they don’t actually care if you are, they’re just being polite or so they think😬
👉🏼 While “wee” means pee in England, it means “little” in Scotland—would you like to go for a wee wee?🤣
👉🏼 Tips don’t really exist here? This was hard to get used to when I first moved here.
👉🏼 Sunday’s are roast days… making Christmas meals not that exciting anymore😢
👉🏼 Brits can’t use Lbs or Kgs to weigh themselves, they must use “Stones” to really confuse the rest of the world
👉🏼 I will never agree that a sidewalk should be called pavement. Pavement is the road you drive on😳
👉🏼 You don’t put eggs in the fridge here & don’t need to because of the way it’s prepared for packaging.
👉🏼 Work vacations (holidays) are up to 3 or more weeks long here🤩
👉🏼 You legally can’t get away with using your TV without paying a TV licence every month (yet)🙃
👉🏼 Pickles are gherkins here… and they’re awfully sweet 🤢
👉🏼 Fancy dress doesn’t mean dressing up nicely, it means getting dressed in costumes (think Halloween)

These are just a few… but I’ve grown to love living here despite missing the Canadian ways every single day!😂😬

What’s one thing where you live that you find odd? Tell me below👇🏻

We’ve enjoyed the lovely bank holiday weather wi

We’ve enjoyed the lovely bank holiday weather with our sweet girl😍

#growinguptoofast #hydepark #hydeparklondon

We talk a lot about the negatives of lockdown and

We talk a lot about the negatives of lockdown and the pandemic, but I’ve come to appreciate so many of the positives. 🙌🏼

Lockdown pushed me out of my comfort zone to make new friends online when we decided to move to the other side of the country in less than a month at the start of the pandemic. I couldn’t go out and meet people—but apps like @peanut and @mushmums helped me connect with some locals that I probably would’ve never ran into! This gem is one of them! 😍

We all went for a lovely walk around @rushmerecountrypark and ended up lost thanks to the excitement of being outside with friends!🤣

Here’s to many more walks, garden parties and life resuming as ‘normal’ as it once used to be....🥂

Tell me, did you step outside of your comfort zone during lockdown? 😅

“We expected better of you as a parent” “Yo

“We expected better of you as a parent”
“You should’ve controlled her weight”
“You need to stop offering her breastmilk if she doesn’t eat solids”
- Nursery Nurse

I wasn’t going to post about this because it had hurt me a lot last week thinking I’ve done harm to my child and I’m possibly the worst mother in the world. But then I reached out to this incredible community of other mums and realised, hold on a second. NO. I’m not the problem. Neither is Alara. 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗺𝗮𝗱𝗲 𝗶𝘁 𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁 𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝗯𝗮𝗯𝘆 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴?!

I wasn’t overly concerned but I was wondering where she was on the charts. What I didn’t expect was to be shamed into thinking I’ve harmed Alara by feeding on demand or offering the boob when she’s teething and refusing solids. I didn’t expect to be told to stop offering her breastmilk at 7 1/2 months because she needs to eat 3 meals a day and if she’s not having that, she doesn’t need the calories replaced with breastmilk/formula. If there was a genuine concern that Alara was unhealthy, for sure, I’d be more concerned about her weight. But she’s a happy, soulful baby. With a little extra thigh and cheek to offer the world. What’s wrong with that?

She’s also not mobile yet. She’s not active enough to be burning the calories she’s consumed with breastmilk. And things will be fine once she’s crawling around and starting to walk.

I’ve battled eating disorders and body image issues all my life. It started early because the people around me made me feel like I didn’t belong, that I had to look a certain way and meet a certain expectation ALL the time. But as @lilynicholsrdn talked about on her blog, there is 𝗻𝗼 normal. There is 𝗻𝗼 right size. There is 𝗻𝗼 wrong size. There is 𝗻𝗼 right shape. There is 𝗻𝗼 wrong shape.

My baby is happy, she’s most certainly healthy and I’m going to make sure she grows up knowing that no matter what she looks like, she’s beautiful—because she is.

𝗕𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗯𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗸𝗶𝗱𝘀 𝗶𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗡𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗸𝗮𝘆. End rant.

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