So as part of getting my life somewhat back into order, a health nurse has been visiting my home on a weekly basis. She’s wonderfully supportive and kind and I look forward to her visits. It’s like having a close friend come regularly for coffee and a really good yarn. Each week she sets up [...]
Just a warning everyone, this is rant time, and the lucky recipient this time is… nappy companies. The ads are what annoy me, you know the ones with the smiling pristine mother and the baby who is cooing and smiling as the nappy is being changed, and there is peaceful music and that’s why we [...]
If adults did some of the things my kids did I would think them plain weird, maybe even a little insane, but somehow in kids these things are endearing. Squirm only borrows library books that are pink. Wrigglebot will never eat toast, only cold bread. Squirm falls asleep with her doona shoved in her mouth. [...]
I have my school ten year reunion coming up on Saturday and it has given me cause to stop and reflect on my life and the things I have accomplished in the years since leaving school. On the whole I’m content about my life, but I felt I was missing the one accomplishment that would [...]
I am posting a photo here of my veggie garden, mostly to prove that I at least planted and that at some stage there were plants alive in it although no veggies yet. We planted leek, zucchini, capsicum, onion, spring onion, beetroot, tomato, lettuce, beans and I think some other things too. Why so much [...]
Yes, I have been missing in action and I apologise for staying away so long. Unfortunately life as a mother of two has been a challenge from the get-go and I find myself wondering when the cycle of unfortunate events will break. It appears I have run over a china-man as the saying goes – [...]
I remember when I first had Wrigglebot and I would dress him up in proper clothes to go out of the house. Every time. I think that is the advantage of being the eldest, your mother hasn’t lost all sense of decorum yet, and then that’s the disadvantage of being the youngest. I doubt The [...]
There was a while with The Little One when we wondered whether he would be one of ‘those children’. Fortunately he learnt to burp and things settled down. Pictured below is his most common expression. Somebody said that it is as if he has all this joy that he just can’t contain. And he is [...]
So ladies, here is the comment: ‘unrelated to this topic, but i can’t work out where else to write it (ie. can’t be bothered looking). michelle, i need a new top 10 (or even 15) list of things that you need/require when having a child. for example: pram- what useful things should i look for. [...]
For a while now I feel like I’ve been counting down the weeks. I get to Friday and think, ‘Great that’s another week down.’ I’m not sure whether it is from my years of teaching, where you are always counting down the weeks until the holidays, but I was definitely in countdown mode. I realised [...]