You ask the girls about their uni course at work and they tell you the 'school stuff' they're discussing is high school and they're actually in Year 10. And they're your shift supervisor. People discuss going to someones 21st. You tell your two year old that she better be grateful about the car (that she … Continue reading Moments when I feel old.

Yesterday I made the most amazing vegan bolognese and I've had loads of people asking me for the recipe! Since Chris also asked me to write it down because he loved it so much, here it is. Its easy, you'll probably have a lot of the ingredients and the method below probably just looks long … Continue reading The best Vegan Bolognese you’ll ever try

I just don't think I realised how much my life would change when I had kids. Yes, I obviously knew it would change, infinitely, for the better, life would never be the same. But I just don't think I really realised what that meant, ya know? I just don't think I realised that although I had … Continue reading I just don’t think I realised

As much as the original basis and idea for The Bean Bible was to share with you parent related things for the Geelong area, I also don't want this to turn into a product overloaded website. Finding time to 'blog' on our daily life with a 2 year old and a 10 month old however … Continue reading TBB Life Update

During the first 6 weeks after giving birth mums have a greater need for emotional support and her partner, mother and midwives are her biggest support.Receiving conflicting advice can be very normal. From this survey we see that midwives make a positive difference to mum’s confidence. Conflicting advice isn’t necessarily a scary thing, mum gets … Continue reading International Day of the Midwife

Thanks to one of my best girlfriends for inspiring this blog piece after a discussion about the 'joy' of childbirth. Warning - pictures of post cesarian wounds. Cesarians - still taboo? I can't see why. Vaginal or cesarian, childbirth is childbirth and each comes with their own set of pros and cons and possibly complications. … Continue reading Stitches vs Staples

Really throwing back to the roots of The Bean Bible and sharing some of my personal experiences - I'm here to tell you a bit about our sleep struggle with Hunter. It could help you, it might just be an insight into us (you nosy parker) and it may just be a time filler while you … Continue reading Our sleep struggle

So Evie has never really been a TV kid, she's much more of an outdoors lady - which obviously suits me just fine, but sometimes a mum just needs to have a coffee and a shower and a second of peace. And so I persisted with some Disney JNR and she came to love Mickey … Continue reading 5 (mostly inappropriate things) I think about when watching The Wiggles

MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUM. Like, I'm sorry, You're not even 2 years old yet where is the Mummy? Why is there so much U's in Mum? Why are you shouting it so loud when I am right here? Why do you yell it just to have me look at you and then laugh? 2. Uh oh.. Goes without … Continue reading Things I’m sick of hearing from my almost 2 year old every single day.