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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
A sneaky commando crawler is now in the house and it doesn’t seem to matter how well I tidy, or how high I put things out of reach, Milla will still find all the things she is not supposed to have. It was difficult when she rolled so efficiently but now the challenge is even [...]
I met a lady at the park yesterday. She was very nice. I now know her daughter’s name (including middle name), what her husband does for a living, where she lives, what she did before being a Mummy, where her daughter is going to school, that she isn’t planning on having any more children and [...]
As a child I remember Mum driving us home from somewhere, the shops or one of our numerous sporting activities, she would drive into the driveway, turn off the engine and just sit there. It seemed to us as children that sometimes she would sit there, in the car, for up to an hour, although [...]
When I started writing for Mr Wrigglebot, I made no guarantees that my musings on baby life wouldn’t involve poo. Today I am going to follow through on that non-guarantee. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. It was a fine, sunny day in May, and the Arch-man and I found ourselves in a clothing store [...]
The past month has been crazy for us, we have been extremely busy and I feel like I’ve been just trying to survive. Husband has had tight deadlines and has had to work from the office rather than home making things a bit more unsettled. Anyways I was absolutely exhausted, by the way I’m also [...]
Okay by now most of you know that I am not the most domestic person in the world and this is why. The other day my floors got to the point that I just couldn’t ignore them anymore. Wrigglebot had brought so much sand inside that when you walked your feet crunched and you dare [...]
Often I tend to focus on how children have limited my life. I have to be home for their nap and bed times, I can’t go out without a babysitter, there has to be milk in the house, dinner has to be at a certain time and everything needs to be child friendly. However recently [...]