It’s all fun and games until someone grows a tooth
We are having a teething evening. Which is to say, number one, yoghurt for dinner; number two, teeth brushing optional; number three, Calpol before bed; number four, bed, really? Bed? Thankfully we got...
View ArticleParty-planning the Pinterest way; or, how to go mad in an hour or less
Today I did that thing I said I would never do, and looked on Pinterest for reals. I looked initially because I had to research paper globe lanterns for a girls’ camp we’re running in July. Everyone...
View ArticleTen tips for winning over your fussy eater: baby edition
Timothy and I are obsessed with food. I would rather go out to eat than go to the cinema, or a party, or to buy new clothes. It’s a silly thing to spend money on, since it’s not like it hangs around...
View ArticleEight pounds
Eight pounds, eight pounds, eight pounds. It’s all I can think of at the minute. Eight pounds is how much heavier I am than before I was pregnant. Teddy is outside now, and chunking up nicely, but I...
View ArticleFive ways to tell you’re in baby burnout…and what to do about it
Sometimes Fridays are the best times to hold up your hands and say ‘dear readers, I confess: I have been an idiot’. We have just come back from a break in Stratford-Upon-Avon – two lovely days of...
View ArticleThe funny old thing about time
Time passes. Everyone told me it would, but of course I didn’t believe them. How could I? The space inside a minute with a newborn seems so very long, because you’re awake nearly all the minutes there...
View ArticleYou can’t have one without the other
Hello world! I’m back in the land of the living after a six-day sick bug, and will be embracing this week with a kiss on the mouth. Six days! I feel like Captain [in] America, waking up after a long...
View ArticleMotherhood is so much more than your milk
Hey, you. You there, with the tiny baby. You there, slogging on in a dream-haze between feed and sleep and feed. You, mama, with this terrifying new position as Centre of the Universe for the baby you...
View Article‘It’ll be gone before you know it’, said everyone but you
We have a houseful of babies. Downy heads, dimply elbows. They sit in my living room, wobbly on bottoms not yet used to keeping their owners upright, investigating our old baby toys with fat hands and...
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