Tereza Matys

Build to Birth

August 22, 2021

I have borrowed the title from a wonderful doula, who is an amazing resource of birthing wisdom on Youtube, search for Buildtobirth. Ok let’s be honest here, I am laughing at my smug old self when I was pregnant for the first time. When you have a toddler, you simply don’t have the time to spend all the time on…

Parenthood

Baby Inventory

July 13, 2021

First of all, I just want to say that the life of influencers and mum bloggers must be really hard because I don’t even know how to take a good photo. For one thing I should have probably ironed my bed sheets if I wanted to use them as canvas. Let’s be honest though, life is too short to do…

Daily Life / Sustainability

Sustainable high horse

July 7, 2021

It’s always really hard getting off your high horse, especially if you’ve been really loud about riding it, but it goes against every fibre of my being to be a hypocrite. So here’s the stream of thought about how it’s not always easy to be sustainable, zero waste, plant based hippie. Just like a lot of things in the developed…

Daily Life

Dystopian society

June 28, 2021

As a privileged white girl from a good family with education from one of the oldest British Universities, never have I ever felt more like a dirty immigrant as I have in the last year in the land down under. Despite being a foreigner for the last 12 years. Despite being told countless of times that “my English is pretty…

Parenthood

Winter has come to the Gold Coast

June 14, 2021

Gone are the days when I used to think in “writing”, as in I imagined how I would write about what I am experiencing right now. I have had a notepad full of expressions and I was never afraid to take out one of my seventeen Moleskine diaries that I was using at the moment. It’s a forever love though.…

Daily Life / Parenthood

What I would love for my daughter

June 9, 2021

I would love for her to study because she wants the knowledge not the degree. I would love for her to go into a field of work because she is genuinely interested in it and wants to make a difference rather than because it’s where she will make the most money. I would like her to judge people based on…

Parenthood

2021 – the year of the Whale

April 5, 2021

I am well aware there are women in this world who love being pregnant. Women that are in “awe of what their body can do’’. I know there are women in this world that are more beautiful when bearing children. There’s a scene in the Modern Family when Phil is looking at pregnant Gloria (Sofia Vergara) and says: ”I finally…

Parenthood

Sleep training for cuddly babies

March 16, 2021

Me and Lukas are big on cuddles. I am not saying it just to make you gag, I am saying this because just a few weeks back, after we had a massive fuddle (family cuddle), I told Lukas: isn’t funny how two people that love to cuddle more than anything made a child who loves the same? Lukas was like:…

Travel

Snowy mountains, the toddler and corona

February 27, 2021

So after a year, we have finally ventured to the airport as a family. God it’s been a long time. I remember when we travelled last. Josefina couldn’t walk yet and run away from us as we were visiting all the wineries and breweries. Corona was already here, but I still thought that two months later I will be able…

Daily Life

Starting right now, I will be strong

February 16, 2021

This week I have started about 17 times. Elizabeth Gilbert says that keeping in a state of perpetual misery to be able to create is a myth, your creativity can and will come from your happiness. For me whenever I am feeling down is when I am drawn to writing. I will write when I am happy too, but it…