The summer cold is upon me. First, it was upon Ziggy and then, like dominoes, we all fell. And I know, I know - it's just a cold. No big deal. I'll get over it. But the thing about having three kids at home (which I did yesterday) is that running on empty does not make […]
Dinner, that is. Can you believe that my family sat down to another meal provided by a friend who thought I'd had a rough weekend and could use a break? Because I can't. Except that I obviously can because that lasagne was reeeeeally good! I don't know what I have done to deserve such kind […]
So this is an actual text sent to me by a real human woman. A real human woman with kids and a busy life of her own. To say that her gesture was overwhelming doesn't come close to expressing the magnitude of what this meant to me. As my reply indicates, I had not […]
It was day four. Or was it day five? I can't recall but it was smack bang in the middle of "the weeping" – those post-birth days when your emotions are held to ransom by an epic hormone cocktail. The intense love you feel looking at your baby's tiny face makes you cry but then, […]
