For a while now, I’ve been taking my little one to the Story Time sessions at the local library. We both love it. Milla is highly amused by the various props Serena pulls out of her red velvet bag, and I get to be the nutty mother who sings and dances to the lullabies we [...]
To my children our family is the most normal in the world. It is the only family that they really know, we are the only parents they have and so our little home is their world and the way the world should be. That being so I am always conscious of what things my little [...]
My husband and I ended up having a third ultrasound during my pregnancy as there were complications early in my third trimester. Milla was behaving that day so we managed to get a fantastic picture and DVD of her. The scan was so good that we were sure just from the images that we were [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Just a quick note to let you all know that I am going to be joined on my blog by two more writers, so, if you hear stories about newborns it isn’t me, I have not had anymore children. The more stories, the more anecdotes the better and my family can only be so much [...]