How great are long weekends? (Definately a rhetorical question because the answer is so obvious) (sorry that is the English teacher coming out in me.) We had beautiful weather and so it seemed like the perfect time to get some of those outside jobs done. We are doing a play area for Mr. Wrigglebot, it [...]
The maternal health nurse said Mr. Wrigglebot is ‘terribly advanced for his age’ and so as any proud mother would, I try and work it into a few (ok a lot of conversations) in an offhand embarrassed kind of way. He is very mobile for his age, he pulls himself up on anything and everything [...]
Mothering is hard. It is hard to constantly have your life controlled by a person who is solely dependant on you and yet cannot communicate in traditional ways. How do you know when somebody who cannot talk is crying because they are hungry? They may be tired or sick or uncomfortable or frustrated but somehow [...]