The tantrums have come with a force for Wrigglebot this week, my usually placid son has, for minutes at a time, turned into a monster. Now we have dealt with two year old tantrums before but three year old tantrums are another thing entirely. He is stronger and faster and he knows it. Where before [...]
I have only 7 weeks to go before baby number two arrives. I am excited and can’t wait to meet my beautiful baby. I am finding that as the weeks roll on my anxiety increases though which I guess is normal.
I’m not sure what I’d prefer; the naive first pregnancy where you have no idea [...]
Over the past few months it has really come to my attention how difficult my life as a woman, wife, employee, house goddess (okay, cleaner), and mother really can be at times. I mean, look at all those titles I have and that is only to name a few! I could add hairdresser, psychologist, chef, [...]
Wrigglebot had his first day at 3 year old activity group on Monday. I had to pack a lunch, I had to cover a book, I felt like my little Wrigglebot had suddenly grown up. I went to drop him off prepared for tears and so I stuck around for a little bit until he [...]
I sometimes think of what I might be if I was born in another place and time. Something that would utilise my unique talents and abilities. Maybe a queen, but I don’t quite have the diplomacy for that, perhaps a revolutionary, a scientist or an explorer, personally I would have loved to have been a [...]
I had stupidly thought the older your child, the more manageable life would be – this is not so (so far anyway) and life with Toddzilla is becoming increasingly difficult.
I am beginning to wonder now if I made the most of that little baby that would stay on her blanket just where I put her, [...]
Disciplining is hard work and it’s hard to know what to do and how to react at times. It’s hard to judge motive in little ones who can’t talk and even when they can, they sometimes still can’t explain why they did something. So we guess, sometimes we’re right and many times we are wrong [...]
My husband’s parents are total hippies. His mother was the bra burning type back in the ol’days, I’m sure their recreational habits back then were not one bit legal, and my dear husband went to school with strange sandwich fillings he desperately tried to trade -to the absolute disgust of other students.
Of course, my [...]
When Wrigglebot was one and a half we gave him a cricket set. It was ambitious I know and at first he didn’t play with it and all thoughts of him being the next Bradman flew out the window, I mean surely Bradman was already hitting cover drives at one. Since then, however, the cricket [...]
There are in life big victories; you know like passing Year 12 exams, getting your license, getting the job you really want, seeing your kids leave home and then there are the little ones. Right now I’m focussed on the little ones and today I have had two. The first was seeing Squirm do wees [...]