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 babies due when the weather turns cold. My goal is to help you create…
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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 come OUT. And aside from feeling mildly nauseous with terror, and narrowing my eyes at the suddenly-enormous-looking circumference of Mr…
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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 Weetbix Mummy. My tummy’s lonely. : : : ME: Hey listen to this classic old song [Split…
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Hello dear stranger! How are you? These joyful Christmas photographs were taken about 18 months ago. Wait. No, they were taken only three weeks ago. How is that even possible? How was your Christmas (if Christmas is your thing)? Ours was really lovely, full of friends dropping by and delicious food and very excited children…
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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 others; but you can’t have no games at all because then you’ll have a lot of bored…
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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 have to know, simply scroll back through some of my older posts and you’ll find them. I haven’t…
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I had wanted to spend the evening last night writing a witty and clever blog post that would make you smile. Instead, I spent the night on my hands and knees sponging baby vomit off the floors, after spending the afternoon cleaning baby vomit off my baby and his pram and a goodly portion of…
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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 & Zanni Louise On the weekend I showed Madeleine and one of her little friends the green and growing things in our…
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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 me as she races the other way, bumping into walls and trees and tumbling down hills…
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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 STORIES. You know the stories I’m talking about. The “You Will Never Sleep Again” stories. The “Your Breasts Will Sag…
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Sunday, 3:30pm: We are picking lemons. I LOVE picking lemons! Mummy says I’m very busy. I think I will shout. ME BUSY! ME BUSY! The lemons are up very high in the tree. This is so exciting, how can I contain myself? I know, I’ll yell. UP HIGH! UP HIGH! Now I think I will…
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One word (or is it two?): ice-cream. On a big table, stack up a few tubs of the most delicious ice-cream you can find. Mine was my very own bespoke flavour from Harry’s Ice Cream Co, just around the corner in Brunswick: cinnamon doughnut and maple syrup (I know!!). More about that later. Fill vintage…
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