Update: Bloods Tests, Job Offer, Sleep, and Dad

There’s lots to catch up on, so I think I’ll just do a nice straightforward update… E2′s Blood Tests I got a call from the pediatrician yesterday and her blood tests were negative: she doesn’t have coeliac disease. Part of me is relieved but… I said to the doctor, “I know this is going to [...]

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He Flies In to and Out of Our Lives

My dad is stopping by for a visit tomorrow. My dad, who lives in the US, is stopping by our house in the UK to visit for a few hours. It sounds so glamourous and jet-set, but it’s not. In fact, if it weren’t for these occasional flying visits (literally), I wouldn’t have been able [...]

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Help Me Solve this Sleep Mystery

I am one stumped mama. I am also a very tired mama, rarely having had more then 3 hours of sleep strung together in nearly 10 months. And therein lies the mystery: I don’t get what this child is up to at night, or know how to fix it. Let me explain… First off, we [...]

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Freedom Gained, Freedom Lost

I spend my days covered in baby in some way or another. I am either nursing one, or carrying one, or carting one upstairs to change a nappy. Sometimes I am playing with one — or two — and they are all over me. It’s very rare that I am just me anymore, a single [...]

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A Holiday at Just the Right Moment

It’s been a funny old Thanksgiving — as it so often is when you’re in a foreign country on the day — and it would have been easy to forget that it was Thanksgiving at all. There is nothing here to remind a person at all, save one mention and wish of good will on [...]

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I Broke Down and Landed on Square One

I broke down tonight — the stress suddenly took hold of me and I couldn’t climb over it. My husband didn’t know what to do with me, and I just sat and sobbed. It’s not like me — I handle stress by doing things — but tonight I didn’t have the strength and so the [...]

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An Evening with Jeremy Irons

An acquaintance of mine and fellow American expat, Karen Billing, has organised a fundraising evening with the well-known actor Jeremy Irons to raise money for the charity SHIVA, which brings education to children in Nepal, India & Sri Lanka, and the Nepal Orphans Home, an orphange & school In Kathmandu, Nepal. Karen has worked tirelessly [...]

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What Colour are You?

We are all so wrapped in colour — in the recognition of colour, in the language of colour, in the politics of colour — that it becomes easy to start to think that colour matters. Colour doesn’t matter. Culture matters, standards matter, achievements and history and intentions matter, but colour is just a point on [...]

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Christmas Wishlist

I have suddenly realised that a blog makes a very handy place to post a Christmas Wishlist. If any of you were planning to shower me with gifts this holiday season, here’s what would really rock my world. And if you weren’t… well, here’s a chance for a little wishlist-voyeurism for you. ————————- Flat boots [...]

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Bend or Break

I have a friend that I used to be quite close to, but I haven’t seen much in the last few years. She and I are a lot alike: we have the same tastes, enjoy doing the same things, and have similar temperaments. She used to laugh and say, “We’re the same person, really!” And [...]

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