Some nights the bedtime routine is harder than others. Tonight, M had hit his wall before we’d even begun — he’d had a particularly difficult day and was sat on the couch looking as though his head was filled with concrete. Tonight would be a solo gig. First child: toilet, hands, catch her as she [...]
Archive for February, 2009
First Priority
Posted in Motherhood, Observations of Life, Who am I?, tagged Children, daughter, Family, kids, Life, Love, Mommy, mother, mothering, mummy, parenthood, Parenting, Personal on February 28, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Ring! Ring! Round Two!
Posted in Living with Allergies, Motherhood, Observations of Life, Who am I?, tagged allergies, Children, daughter, egg allergy, eggs, food allergies, Health, kids, Life, mothering, pain, Parenting, Personal, reaction, soy, stroopwafels on February 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Four days after E2 finally recovered from her ordeal of having two teaspoons of lentils move through her system (and I recovered from my ordeal of not sleeping for three nights on end), and just as I was beginning to feel human again, my mother handed me a small bag of wonderfulness. She’d picked it [...]
The Kind of Mother My Mother Is
Posted in Motherhood, My mother, Repatting, Who am I?, tagged Children, daughter, esfp, Family, granddaughter, grandmother, intp, janet penley, kids, Life, mother, Motherhood, mothering, mothering styles, motherstyles, Myers-Briggs, Parenting, Personal on February 24, 2009 | 10 Comments »
The other week, my mother came round to babysit E1 while I took E2 to a doctor’s appointment. It was a strangely warm day and so what did my mum do the whole three hours that we were gone? She played in the garden with her granddaughter. They gathered pine cones and seedpods for the [...]
New Shoes!
Posted in Motherhood, Observations of Life, Who am I?, tagged Children, daughters, Family, kids, Life, mothering, Parenting, Personal, photos, shoes, shopping on February 22, 2009 | 5 Comments »
How about these, eh? Or these? Are they gorgeous? Aren’t these making you wish they came in Big Girl sizes? Who doesn’t want purple suede MaryJanes with little pink flowers? Oh! I love them so much I could chew on them… You know, sometimes I am just so glad I had little girls!
Anything You Want, Baby, We Got It All on Tap Here
Posted in My mother, Observations of Life, Who am I?, tagged Breastfeeding, daughter, extended breastfeeding, Family, Life, milk, Mommy, mother, mothering, mummy, Parenting, Personal, Sleep on February 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I was rushing things as I tried to get E2 to cooperate with being put down for her nap. My mother had come round for a couple of hours to keep the girls busy so I could make a start on the taxes, and I’d lost track of time and now they were late going [...]
After the Equinox, the Days will be Longer than the Nights
Posted in Failure, Making our move, Motherhood, My mother, Observations of America, Observations of Life, Who am I?, tagged bills, Children, credit crunch, failure complex, Family, finances, husband, jobs, kids, Life, Marriage, Money, Personal, personal finances, recession, Work on February 20, 2009 | 5 Comments »
It feels like I haven’t seen my husband in weeks — it’s not true, but I haven’t seen much of him in a long time. His work has been… crazy. He had all of three days off in January, and February has followed course, which is exhausting for him — and, by extension, for me. [...]
Aftermath: Explosive (ahem…!)
Posted in Living with Allergies, Motherhood, My mother, Observations of Life, tagged allergies, Children, comic relief, Family, food allergies, food challenge, Health, humor, humour, kids, lentils, Life, Personal, red nose day on February 16, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Ah… yes! I understand now. Of course the steroids she had to take to stave off secondary reactions needed to last several days! Because what was going to happen over the next few days? The lentils were going to work their way slowly through her system… and her system would continue to react to them [...]
A Risk for Confirmation
Posted in Living with Allergies, Motherhood, Observations of Life, Who am I?, tagged allergies, Children, disappointment, Family, Food, food allergies, Health, kids, lentils, Life, Personal on February 15, 2009 | 11 Comments »
I love you. She whispered it. It was the first time she’d ever said it on her own, of her own conviction, and amid all the worry and disappointment of that moment, it was so beautiful that it made tears suddenly well up in my eyes and roll, fat and warm, down my cheeks. The [...]
Covered!
Posted in Motherhood, Observations of America, Observations of Life, Repatting, tagged Family, finances, Health, health care, health insurance, healthcare, hospital, kids, Life, Money, Parenting, Personal, Politics on February 13, 2009 | 11 Comments »
An envelope arrived today from the insurance company and I knew immediately that it would be the paperwork for E2′s trip to the Emergency Room. Every time we’ve got one of these envelopes before, it’s always been bad news — thousands of dollars worth of bad — and so my hand nearly shook as I [...]
Moments of Light
Posted in Motherhood, Observations of Life, Who am I?, tagged books, Children, Family, kids, Life, Love, mother, mothering, parenthood, Parenting, Personal on February 11, 2009 | 3 Comments »
The truly great moments of being a mother go like this: Clunk clunk clunk “What are you doing?” “Um… just bringing the shopping trolley up into the living room…” “I don’t want the shopping trolley in the living room. It stays in the family room. Please take it back down.” Silence “Take it back down.” [...]
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