Going into labour has to be one of strangest experiences I’ve ever had. Even as we were driving to the hospital, we weren’t sure it was the real thing. I just knew I was in a lot of pain and I needed help. So, as I await going into labour a second time, I’m working …
The Ultimate Diaper Bag At 34 weeks pregnant, the side pocket of our current diaper bag gave out. We’d been talking about getting a better-quality diaper bag for a while, since with Little Fox we’d already been through three. To be fair, the first bag didn’t break, it just wasn’t convenient for me to lug …
Hospital Bag – Ready for Delivery! I vividly remember the trip to the hospital to deliver Little Fox. We weren’t sure if I was having real labour contractions or Braxton Hicks. But the pain and frequency was so great for me that I needed the hospital to do SOMETHING! In fact, we even went in …
The Independent Toddler In two months, I’ll have two children under two in the house! This is going to come with some challenges. I’m especially worried about times that Little Fox is going to want my attention while I’m nursing the new baby. Already, I know I’m lucky to have an independent first child. Little …
My birthday is this week, so I thought I’d do a fun family update article! So much has happened in the last year. In February we will mark a year since launching TheByzantineLife! And what an incredible year indeed! Little Fox Highlights Of course, my darling firstborn has been a major highlight of this past …
Byzantine Baby Names Picking baby names is one of the awesomest honours bestowed upon new parents. It’s a lot of fun to pour over names, and a great responsibility to pick one. Since we just recently got to decide on a name for our second child, I thought I’d do a blog post on Byzantine …
I found out I really was pregnant on the day of my last final in the first semester of my final year in University. We really weren’t sure I was pregnant before that because hey – a lot of stress can cause a missed period and finals and papers are stressful! Pregnancy during university meant …
Become Organized by Knowing Yourself Better As a child and young adult, I loved to look at beautiful organized spaces and imagine having spaces like those. But it felt like an unobtainable dream, because I was perpetually disorganized. I could not get my spaces to look like those you find in magazines or on Pinterest. …
Hello readers! Unless you somehow got to this page without reading the title, then you know we are pregnant with baby number two! Our first children will be 21 months apart which is almost exactly what we wanted. (We were aiming for 18 months). And now that we’ve told family we can share the good …
The Adventure Begins What a weekend! Saturday we had a workshop at our Church all day, then supper with my husbands family (people I hadn’t met yet), and then an evening prayer gathering at a friend’s home to do a mini Panahyda for the soul of his recently deceased father. By the end of the …
