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I'm Shante Hutton, mother to two wonderful girls, Rosie and Cece. Welcome to my lovely (and raw) world of parenting, food, wine, travel and British sarcasm.

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  • 🍩 stop believing! . . Top tip: In a world full of bagels, be a little glazy. . . Also, as Cece is so delightfully demonstrating, guard your sugar...sorry, I mean, guard your heart! Side-eye shuffle anyone who tries to steal your sweet sunshine....yas, my alliteration is baking me so happy. . . You are a multicolored sprinkle and I don’t want it any other way. Own it! I don’t know who needs to read this today, but I’m sending you a “hole” lotta love. . . .
  • Need a strong dose of Vit D? *voila* You’re welcome. . . . . Thank you everyone for your beautiful birthday wishes and love, it’s so special being able to share 12 months of this princess with you all . . . . #birthdaygirl #thebloomforum #botanicalpickmeup #creativityfound #inspiremyinstagram #pursuewhatislovely #everydaymoments #lovelylittlesquares #thepursuitofjoy #lifewellcaptured #kindredmemories #subjectlight
  • ℍ𝕒𝕡𝕡𝕪 𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕤𝕥 𝕓𝕚𝕣𝕥𝕙𝕕𝕒𝕪 𝕤𝕦𝕟𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕖! . . What a joy it is to be this little one’s mummy. I cherish each and every atom of her being - she and her sister are the greatest gifts I could have ever been given. . . In the lining of her skin, therein lies a path to the stars . . . Because I’m extra, and I just love taking photos of my babes, we went to the lavender fields for a “smash the donuts” session. Lovingly dressed in @foreva_v headband, bloomers and shoes, a wonderful gift, I couldn’t have pictured a more timeless combination for my precious princess - ready yourself for lots more pics! . . . . . . #candidchildhood #cameramama #momtogs #whimsy #portraitphotography
  • Don’t let them tame your wild heart. . . . Don’t listen when they say you shouldn’t shine so boldly. . . The world needs your light. . . . #childhoodunplugged #candidchildhood #enchantedchildhood #ourwhimsicaldays #ourplayfulstyle #letthembelittle #littleandbrave #magicofchildhood #thehappynow #mytinymoments #littlefierceones #matchingoutfits #sisterhood
  • Does anyone else have a super chilled baby? No, me neither! . Cece will be one tomorrow *😭🥰* and boy does this girl like to move! She started walking at 10 months which I love because my OCDs do not have time for crawling and all that dirt but it’s so surreal running after a baby who doesn’t quite grasp that she isn’t yet a big person…even if her attitude is 10x the “did she really do that?” of mine 🙄💅🏻 . . She’s such a busy, joyful little soul - she’s big on clapping, she’s got this adorable toe wiggle she does when her jams come on and if you accidentally find yourself sitting or lying down next to her, she will use your face as a trampoline. And you can’t ever get mad because her smile is out-of-this-world gold. . . Remember when I asked what nappies work for your children because both my girls have been so different? If Cece finds the sticky tape on the nappy then she won’t stop pulling until it’s off...which is so not cool in the middle of the night or on a long car journey; she would be a soggy mess without Huggies pants, not just because they don’t have any distractions for inquisitive little people, but because they madly cling to her, matching her activeness…and 5-6 night-time wake-up. Yeah, I can’t seem to break that habit (all suggestions welcome PLEASE). . . Anyway, we didn’t want to think about much this weekend and I’m grateful for the weather being so glorious so we could spend time outside soaking up the Vit C & D. If Rosie was a whirlwind of emotion, Cece was a calming breeze, offering me hugs and kisses and babbling happily over FaceTime to my folks - such is her sweet healing nature. . . Pic 3 is on-point “Monday” face . . #AD #Huggablemoments #HuggiesPants #mytinymoments #parentingblogger #parentingwin #raisingthefuture #documentyourdays #letthembelittle #kidsforreal #darlingmovement #minime
  • Sometimes you’ve just gotta take a shoe off and do your best “ooh gurl” pose. . . To keep my mind off, well, anything and everything, we went to Babylonstoren...which seems to be our second home. . . The fresh air, the natural beauty, the space for the girls to utilize their inexhaustible energy levels and of course, freakin’ delicious freshly baked chocolate and salted caramel croissants 🤤 - It’s what we all needed. It took the edge off my feelings...so, so many damn feelings. . . You couldn’t tell from these photos but Rosie was in a very tumultuous mood. I found it so hard to be gracious and loving in the midst of all her blow-ups, and there were many. Was she reading my feelings? Is she getting ill? Has someone paid her to act up? Find out in tomorrow’s episode of “What The Actual!” . . . . . #honestmotherhood #makeportraits #dearphotographer #photooftheday #picoftheday #justgoshoot #visuallife #welivetoexplore #littlefierceones #kidsforreal
  • Somewhere in the forest, a mighty oak has fallen. . . This morning, my Grandpa slipped from our sphere of reality into the realm of the miraculous. Though it was expected, I still held out hope that we would all have one more meeting, one more birthday, one more Christmas...just one more. . . I don’t want to elicit sympathy (you know me) - I am joyful in the knowledge that he is happy, content and pain free where he is now - greeted ecstatically by my brother...but there is this part of me that wants his passing to be acknowledged - did the world sigh as heavily as my heart did? That space that was his, can it be felt? Did galaxies move as he took his last breath? Could there just be a small fanfare for this person that meant so much to me? . . We’re now planning the celebration of his life and we’ve got to discuss whether all of us go over at the end of the month, or just me and the girls. So much to organize. To plan. Things to keep me busy. So very busy. . . . Thank you for all your encouragement over the past few weeks. It is, and always will be, appreciated.
  • Raising children...but how? . . A quote I read recently resonated with me on a deep level, “You cannot raise your children how your parents raised you, because they raised you for a world that no longer exists.” Though I come from a broken and painful childhood, the way my parents tackled our combined heartache was nothing short of miraculous...But I am now faced with a new threat, one that I have only vaguely encountered - the threat of safety, of mortality. . . I want to raise my girls to be fearless and bold, and the world calls them to be loud and fierce but what if their personalities are meek, mild and passive. I would never want them to try and be anything they are not yet the emphasis is placed on us to outsmart, outrun, out-push the enemy...instead of man being told to sort themselves out, instead of the government declaring a state of emergency... . . This is not a post about “men are trash” you can reach me in my DMs if you want that rhetoric. This is a post about the confusing character building we have to force on our kids because we are so scared that their kindness and compassion and empathy will be used against them. How do I tell my kids to be un-judging yet I won’t let them walk to school because of bad people, “but who are the bad people mummy?” Um, well, right now, it’s the men 😭 . . Don’t let your kids wear certain clothes. Don’t put your kids on social media. Don’t let them go to friends houses. Place them in a box where the walls are unscalable and tell them this is freedom. . . *insert heavy sigh* what must we do?? . . . . #sashutdown #childrensrights #motherhoodintheraw #dailyparenting #raisingthefuture #nextgeneration #ourlivesmatter #womensupportingwomen #parentsupport
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