Girly is as girly does
Did you play with dolls as a child? I was never all that much interested. My best friend Sam and I preferred instead to wrap bandages around the limbs of our soft-toy animal collections, and Sam’s ET...
View ArticleLump
Do you want to start your day off really well? Listen to this. Is there any sound in the world better than a baby laughing? It is right up there with a cat purring and the tea being poured. Probably...
View ArticleStuff and simplicity
At any given moment, if you were to pop around to our house unannounced, there would probably be piles of washing waiting to be folded and put away, overflowing the green chairs in our hallway. As you...
View ArticleTreasure Island
Treasure Island, X marks the spot. DAGGER IN THE BACK! Blood running up, Blood running down. Blood running up, Blood running down. Crack of an egg! (Spiders and bees). Cool breeze? [Whisper]: Tight...
View ArticleHandy printable – what not to eat when you’re eating for two
This post is slightly off-topic but it seems a lot of my friends have fallen pregnant lately, and some of the questions and comments they’ve been sharing are pretty familiar. And I thought if they...
View ArticleHappy
The kids and I just had the best day in my experience of motherhood so far. At least, definitely one of the top three. We didn’t do anything particularly special and I won’t bore you with the details...
View ArticleDear mama: don’t listen to the stories
Warning: rant pending. This is a little pep talk for everyone expecting (or one day hoping to expect, or friends with someone who is expecting) their first baby. It is called DON’T LISTEN TO THE...
View ArticleAllo, Mummy
Oh hello, have you been enjoying the sunshine? We sure have. But this was how my weekend started. It was about 4am on Friday night/Saturday morning. I was coming home from a night out dining, drinking...
View ArticleTumbleweed
Have you seen the tumbleweed rolling through this corner of the Internet lately? I feel like it’s ages since I’ve been here, and I’ve missed it. I’ve missed YOU. To be honest I feel like I’ve lost a...
View ArticleShe runs away
She runs away from me, a little further each day. Squealing with glee, captioning her flight, as if I didn’t know it: I running away Mummy! Even as she runs she longs to be close. She twists to watch...
View ArticleFlowers for the bees
Swaying in the morning breeze, Growing sunflowers for the bees. Loving the buzzing in the open air, In the flower garden bees are everywhere. ~ From “Flowers for the Bees” by Gregor Hacska &...
View ArticleMeet Scout & Ralph
Meet my children. They’re pretty great. Their names are Scout and Ralph. Those are not their real names, of course. Their real names are no big secret and if it’s eating you up inside and you just...
View ArticleOne year
How do you compress a person into a year? How do you tell, without being impossibly shallow, what a child’s birthday means to a mother? Can anyone truly build into words the story of a little one who...
View Article14 tips for a first birthday party
A first birthday is tricky, you know, because you can’t focus on the child’s age. So you can’t plan party games because they’ll most likely be too old for some of the kids and too young for the...
View ArticleScout says…
Lately, around our house… SCOUT: Hey Mummy you my lunch. I gonna gobble you up. ME: Oh no, don’t gobble me up! I’m not your lunch! SCOUT: Shoosh. Lunch can’t talk. : : : SCOUT: I really need...
View ArticleDress your baby in Week 1 (summer baby)
I was approximately seven-and-a-half months pregnant with Scout before it began to dawn on me that this beautiful bump I had been cherishing for more than half a year was actually going to have to...
View ArticleDress your baby in Week 1 (winter baby)
This is Part B to the post I published a couple of weeks ago, on what clothes to buy to prepare for a new baby. The previous list was for babies born in the warmer months, this is a checklist for...
View ArticleLaughter
We all need it. Sometimes we really, REALLY need it. I needed it this week. The past few days have been, well… awful. Some pretty horrible stuff has been going down. Anyway, WE WILL ALL BE OK. Which is...
View ArticleMadeleine’s diary – the Easter edition
Day 1, Good Friday 7am: Have woken up thinking about my sister Emily. Daddy said she would be here when I woke up. Must go check. Need to get out of this cot pronto. Mummmy! MUMMMMYYYY! 7:03am: Mummy,...
View ArticleKindness
I’ve been thinking about kindness lately, and how much of it is conscious, and how much of it is innate. What do you think about this? I believe some people have a talent for kindness: being...
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