This year from my family (meaning Husband) I demanded unadulterated Christmas cheer. I like Christmas, I like taking time to celebrate Jesus’ birth, I like carols, I like spending time with family and I like presents, both giving and receiving. Sometimes Husband gets all cynical and carries on about our consumerist society and the hypocrisy [...]
6. The Power of the Sixth Sense Babies like to continually remind their parents that they are the most, if not only important thing their time should be occupied with. They do this by using their special sixth sense to monitor your activities while they’re napping, and respond by waking up if you’re doing something [...]
Ahhh Christmas time…a time to give, a time to be merry, a time to be thankful for everything we have…and a time for the Battle of the Grannys? Remember that competitive edge I spoke of in my last post? Well, I have since discovered it extends beyond the mother to the grandmother. Milla’s Nanny and [...]
Being a first time mother I have taken to reading any material I can get my hands on relating to babies. I hear this reading obsession subsides as baby number two arrives and a mother with baby number three asks, “what is personal enjoyment reading again?†So, I figure I have to educate myself as [...]
I have come to realise that as cool as I am and as much time as I spend with the kids, I will never be Dad. Dad has a special something, a cool that only he can achieve. Husband clearly knows this and thrives on the adoration he sees in those little eyes. Only Dad [...]