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The Little Moments of Motherhood

1 January 1970

Laura Choppen shares her reflections on motherhood, time passing, and the beauty of everyday routines. From school runs and garden play to seasonal traditions in nature, she embraces the small moments that quietly build childhood and family life.

Your content feels very grounded in everyday life — walks, cosy layers, small home moments. What’s something ordinary you’ve learned to really value this past year?

Time. I feel like life moves on so quickly if you don’t savour the everyday you miss out on it completely. It’s all the small, simple things that make a life, isn’t it? Beautifully made things, being out in nature, feeling safe and cosy at home, loving & being loved. They are just as special, if not more so than the “big” things & when you look back it’s always the moments that may have felt mundane at the time, that really stand out in your memory, for me anyway.

As a mum of two, what’s a tiny moment recently that made you pause and think, “I want to remember this”?

The relationship that’s blossoming between my boys, oh how much I adore watching this grow, it’s really special and I never want to forget these years! I hope they stay best friends forever!

"Life moves on so quickly if you don't savour the everyday, you miss out on it."

Your children grow and change so quickly — how do you personally hold on to the small stages?

Oh I know, it’s so bitter sweet, especially the second time around you really realise how quick all the stages pass. I’m quite sentimental & keep notes of memories, like how they said certain things (my favourite) tokens, like tickets & items of clothing. But ultimately it’s Photos and videos! Always. I take so many! I adore looking back through photo albums and being transformed into those moments once again.

Is there a part of motherhood that feels especially meaningful but rarely gets talked about online?  

These days I feel like everything is talked about online haha. But I guess, the mundane moments, the routine, when I look back over my years of motherhood so far, it’s all the everyday simple things that live in my mind, school runs & playing in the garden, walks over the woods, running errands together. Ultimately it’s these every days that build their childhood & our motherhood. They matter. I try to embrace these with as much joy as I would a holiday, for example. I won’t be hustling tiny bodies into clothes and chasing boys on bikes to school forever, I will miss it I’m sure.

"Ultimately, it's these every-days that build their childhood and our motherhood."

What’s one simple seasonal tradition your family has that you hope your children will remember?

I guess we have a few traditions. Our main thing is doing something to mark the season, often related to nature around us, for example, we pick strawberries at the start of summer, blackberries at the end, apples autumn, etc and my eldest now knows when these are coming & is always very excited about heading out to forage and eating/baking when we get home, I wonder if he’ll still be picking fruit with me as a teenager haha, might not be so cool then.

You describe yourself as conscious about what you bring into your home. How does that mindset influence what you choose to document and keep?

Hmm good one, I mean, I feel like I probably break that rule a little when it comes to photos, for me they fall into the timeless, forever category, photos live forever, I also own two sentimental boxes for the boys (I have one for myself too in the loft! - not that I’ve added to it much in adulthood) with special things over the years, this I’ve had to be more particular with as not everything will fit! So just special messages, things from when they were born. Items I hope they will want to revisit when they are older.

Do you notice that certain seasons make you more reflective or sentimental than others?  

I genuinely enjoy all the seasons for different reasons, but I feel like I have a lot of nostalgia around the Christmas season, I wonder if that’s because they are my own childhood memories that I love, the being altogether, that “home for the holidays” feeling. I also love the calm after the storm in January as I feel like I get to re assess my life and how I hope the year ahead to play out.

"Photos live forever."

If you scrolled back six months in your camera roll, what would surprise you?

I think I would just be reminded of how much the little moments mean to me.

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