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Pregnancy TBR: Books I read for Baby 2

#NEWPOST: Pregnancy TBR: Books I read for Baby 2

While prepping for Baby F I have done a tone of research. Yes, way more than for Baby T. On the second way around I already knew what I needed to prep more for, what would be more challenging for me and what I wanted to improve. These are the reads I did and recommend if you are prepping for your bundle of joy to come: Photo by Anna Shvets on Pexels.com What to Expect When You’re…

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My favorites from the web - May 2024

This is a monthly series inspired by Carly’s On My Radar series: My favorites from the web this month. We will come back next Monday with our usual scheduling but for now… Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Here are my favorites from the web this month: The Eras Tour outfits I couldn’t end this blogpost without mentioning the incredible experience that was to attend The Eras Tour in…

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What to do on your summer holidays to recharge (even at home)

This blogpost was originally published on August 15th 2020, but re-published now during my baby 2 maternity leave. You can skip the 2020 pandemic intro and jump right to the still relevant tips below, which I still follow every summer holidays. Hope you enjoy it! We had some pretty intense months. You may have been challenged to start working from home, have your kids 24/7, homeschooling,…

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Life lately: May 2024

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How I plan on taking this postpartum differently

#NEWPOST: How I plan on taking this postpartum differently

Photo by RDNE Stock project on Pexels.com Baby T postpartum was not easy, we entered the hospital without our family and came home to what seemed like a Walking Dead scene. I still remember as if it was today the drive from the hospital to our home, one of the busiest streets of Lisbon completely empty, not a car in sight, only us. The Vasco da Gama shopping center closed, not a single person…

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My favorites from the web - April 2024

This is a monthly series inspired by Carly’s On My Radar series: My favorites from the web this month. We will come back next Monday with our usual scheduling but for now… Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com Here are my favorites from the web this month: Cozy Cardio While planning for my baby 2 postpartum era, in which I plan to be way more active than my baby 1…

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TBR: What will I be reading this Spring

#NEWPOST: TBR: What will I be reading this Spring

Spring. Don’t you just love the warm sun starting to come in, all the flowers and green making its show. Days start to get longer and we crave more and more outside time? I’m starting to feel it already and what better thing to kick-off this season than with a good new TBR? Photo by Asia Culture Center on Pexels.com Let’s start with what I have been diving into this start of the year. What I…

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What I'm most excited to going from 1 to 2 kids

#NEWPOST: What I'm most excited to going from 1 to 2 kids

Photo by Nicolette Attree on Pexels.com Baby F is coming very, very soon and we are all excited! To mark these last few days of waiting for his arrival, here is the list of things I’m most excited for going from 1 to 2 boys: Watching them grow together Swimming lessons! – Baby T joined this year and have been so fun that I can’t wait to have Baby F join too Having two teenager boys at…

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What I plan on doing this Spring

#NEWPOST: What I plan on doing this Spring

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Oh, Spring! That time we start to see light and the weather getting warmer. The days are getting longer and the darker nights are not so dark anymore. Goodbye, fairy lights, welcome sunlight! As always I love having a good exciting list of things I would like to do to seize the season. Let’s see what I want to do this Spring: Wardrobe Spring cleaning: go through…

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My favorites from the web - March 2024

#NEWPOST: My favorites from the web - March 2024

This is a monthly series inspired by Carly’s On My Radar series: My favorites from the web this month. We will come back next Monday with our usual scheduling but for now… From Netflix’s “Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates”, via Wissam Charafeddine. Here are my favorites from the web this month: Bill Gates’s Think Week While finish watching Netflix documentary Inside Bill’s Brain:…

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Letter to my kid 2 + Maternity Leave announcement

#NEWPOST: Letter to my kid 2 + Maternity Leave announcement

One month to go. Baby 2 will be here before we know it and as I did for Baby T, here is my letter for him. This is also my sweet announcement that I will be taking some time off from blogging while I snuggle with our new bundle of joy. Blog posts are scheduled for the whole time, so you will not miss me a lot, but if you find yourself contacting me, please know that I may take a bit more time to…

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Is slow living for me?

#NEWPOST: Is slow living for me?

Do you always feel stressed, anxious, and on top-speed autopilot? So much that you feel yourself having moments of anxiousness because at one moment you are at your highest and then at your lowest and lost on why you feel so burned out or in a rat wheel? Maybe slow living is the answer for you. Photo by Charlotte May on Pexels.com Slow living is a lifestyle which encourages a slower approach to…

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Getting back into blog reading

#NEWPOST: Getting back into blog reading

I have been struggling to find energy to sit at my desk lately (the third trimester is beating my *ss), so this week I bring you a blog post that I wrote at the start of the year and haven’t had the chance to share yet. I’m proud to say that I have not missed a weekly blog post since then and I’m very happy about it. I will be back next week to our regular schedule, this time with our first…

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This is the regular Self-care Routine you need

#NEWPOST: This is the regular Self-care Routine you need

Last year was a big year for me in terms of self-care. I finally understood how important it is to me and my mind and have set it as my top priority. If my mind is not okay, nothing around me will be. So, today I bring you the self-care routine that finally worked for me and how I believe it will work for you too. Photo by Karolina Grabowska on Pexels.com To start, we all need to know this:…

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My favorites from the web - Feb 2024

#NEWPOST: My favorites from the web - Feb 2024

This is a monthly series inspired by Carly’s On My Radar series: My favorites from the web this month. We will come back next Monday with our usual scheduling but for now… Copyright Milena Ciciotti. Here are my favorites from the web this month: Milena Ciciotti In preparation for Baby 2 coming in April, I have been doing a lot of learning on postpartum, on how to improve our breastfeeding…

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It's time to book that Girls Trip

#NEWPOST: It's time to book that Girls Trip

10 years ago my group of girlfriends started a tradition after a crazy idea came to us on one of our many nights in Magnetic Cafe: what if we go on a girls’ weekend? Photo by Elina Fairytale on Pexels.com Rules: No boys talking – we were struggling a lot with boy problems at the time, so this was a much needed rule! Have fun! Do things we have been talking about doing for ages! I know we…

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Why you should take yourself on a date

#NEWPOST: Why you should take yourself on a date

February doesn’t need to be a month just for romantic love. And for years, I have been taking February with that in mind. Not only because it’s my month, and Valentine’s Day is actually my day, but I much prefer to take the love of this month and give it to myself first. What better month is there to remind you to love yourself first? Photo by Monstera Production on Pexels.com I decided a long…