Having a premature first born, I never experienced getting to the due date and all that goes with it. What I have found most surprising is the reaction of friends and family. I understand that they are excited to hear the news, but a phone call from my mother three times a day to check [...]
Milla has had not one ounce of separation anxiety in her short 19 months. Other mothers tell me that I should be incredibly grateful, and I did witness my sister go through turmoil when her first born had a shocking case of it – her child was permanently attached to her leg for a good [...]
Squirm is one of the littlest two year olds you will see and yet she so desperately wants to be big and independent. Things that I still have to do for Wrigglebot she insists on doing herself; undressing herself, brushing her own teeth, getting herself in and out of the car, getting herself onto the [...]
So as number three was drawing near we were faced with the dilemma of car seats. We have what is considered a small car, a Toyota Corolla, I think. Anyways, some people said it couldn’t be done, that we would have to buy a new car, something a little more family friendly but I resisted [...]
With three weeks to go in my second pregnancy the finish line is hanging around somewhere. There are times when I am feeling positive and the finish line is as clear as anything and straight ahead. Then there are times where the finish line seems so far away, so unreachable, with obstacles galore and I [...]
I know I am meant to be proud of everything my children do but there has to be a limit to the amount of handmade stuff a house can contain. Wrigglebot now goes to Sunday School and Activity Group and all three kids go to Playgroup. That equals a lot of pictures with pretty colours [...]
Last week I was in the kitchen with one eye on a peanut butter sandwich in progress and the other on my cherub playing outside in the sandpit. The sun filtering through the kitchen venetians filled the air with floating glitter-dust. The cherub yanked the cat’s tail and it darted into the grass. I wondered [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]