I knew that being a mother was not going to be a glamorous life to lead – unless I happened to be a celebrity with several nannies in tow. I guess I never realised how completely ‘un-glamorous’ the life of a mother is though.
Take the last 15 hours for example…
I spend the night listening to [...]
Growing up I had a secret ambition to be a sports commentator, cricket in particular. What could be better than travelling all around the world watching sport and pretending to be an expert on it? Unfortunately I don’t have a penis and so that ambition fell by the wayside and life progressed. To my surprise [...]
Yesterday I met a young woman who was in her last trimester of her first pregnancy. Somehow we got on to the topic of Mother’s Groups. She had heard through so many of her friends and family nothing but negative feedback about these groups and had already refused to join the one at her local [...]
In the past month Milla’s language has really take off. No words have been uttered as such, but she is now using that gorgeous baby-babble and the consonant sounds are flowing beautifully.
So far we have lots of ‘dada’ (for daddy) ’soso’ (for Sonny the dog) nana (for Nanny or banana – we are still not [...]
Wrigglebot has discovered a Big Bird puppet that used to be Husband’s. I thought he would just play with it for an hour or so and then be over it. Not to be. Not only did he insist that I have it on my hand the entire day, he would talk to Big Bird, read [...]