I am feeling very small. I was maybe going to blog about other things today but my smallness is overwhelming everything else. So I have to write about that instead. I hope you don't mind. It's my own fault and I don't want to bore you with the details but in a nutshell, I'm going […]
You know how I’ve been all glowy and gushing about my baby daughter? You know how no matter how much she refuses to sleep through the night or plans to breastfeed into middle age that I’ve loved her face off? Yes, I have loved her unconditionally. UNTIL NOW. See this face? This is the face […]
Hard work. That is how I would describe her. Invariably, if I can’t find Harlow, this is where she is. Oh yeah, I totally stand on tables now. Or somewhere equally unsafe. Removing her is met with one of two reactions; screaming indignation or blatant wilfulness as she climbs right back to where she […]
Fourteen Little Things…. 1. She points and claps and talks 2. She loves pumpkin soup and roast chicken 3. She 'sings' along with Twinkle Twinkle (in tune!) 4. She WILL take off her socks and shoes 5. She loves baths 6. She loves Daddy 7. She does not love elevators 8. She walks on […]
Oh, little girl. The task of reflecting on the first year of your life feels impossible to write without relying on tired cliché. The year has flown! Where has the time gone? It can’t be a year! Already??? But these are the words that come instantly to mind, the words I have been uttering all year […]
We do not attend church. I object to many significant aspects of the Catholic faith. I decided against sending Luca to a Catholic school because of all that God talk. So it probably takes another non-practising Catholic to understand why the hell we would bother with a baptism for our children. For the record, I do not […]
A baby girl on her Baptism Day (outfit number #2) Last night, I went to dinner with some kinder mums as this little darling sobbed herself to sleep in her daddy's arms. Suffice it to say, I don't get out much. By the time I returned home, my left boob was huge with the milk […]
Did I mention my girl is doing this now? Yeah, Harlow has mastered the proper hands and knees crawl. And kudos to this sweet girl because it must hurt like hell on the floorboards. I'm mad about this child. And she is sweet respite from other things. While in some ways I […]
