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Now she is Five
… nearly six actually. Now that she is five she is at school from 9am until 4pm everyday. She has had her first solo playdate in the pueblo with a boy from school. She tells me that they fight “but not hitting”. OK, great. They mostly play Barbies.
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Glamp Lamp
Looks gorgeous, right? Butter wouldn’t melt? Wrong. She has just handed me the biggest bogie ever to have graced this house, wearing exactly this expression. Stay alert, people. And beware 5 year olds bearing gifts.
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Bella Vista
The view from Bibsey Towers
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On motherhood
All my glorious triumphs in motherhood and some minor hiccups...
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Motherhood

All my glorious triumphs in motherhood and some minor hiccups…

Top 5 truths according to me… a woman

September 19, 2012 by bibsey mama 25 Comments

Kate over at KateTakes5 has set a brilliant Listography challenge this week. She wants our top five truths about the world as we know it. 1. That loo rolls become invisible to the naked male eye once they get down to the last few sheets, along with the last of the marmite, the tomato ketchup, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Domestic Wannabe, Family, Life, the universe etc, Motherhood Tagged: bananas, cooking, listography, loo roll, motherhood, truths

Bibsey does a stretch in the Bold Corner

August 6, 2012 by bibsey mama 15 Comments

One of the most incredible things that Mr B and I are discovering about parenthood at the moment is the speed at which everything is happening. Bibsey is forever amazing us with her language skills. Her vocabulary is increasing exponentially, as I guess you would expect at this age, and her sentence construction improves daily. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Motherhood, Occasional confessional, Toddler Tagged: biting, Childminder, language, pinching

Bibsey’s 7 Word Challenge ~ la culpa es de la vaca and other ways to maintain your motherly mystery

August 3, 2012 by bibsey mama 8 Comments

This week’s 7 Word Challenge was inspired, and not a moment too soon honestly, considering that my back-up post in uninspired times is about kitchen utensils, by an incident that occurred in the kitchen this morning. For the sake of my blogging “craft”, and in the good old time-honoured tradition of Arse Posting, I am … [Read more…]

Posted in: 7 Word Challenge, Apropos of nada, Arse posts, Family, Motherhood, Spanish, Toddler Tagged: caca, cooking, farting, learning Spanish, vaca

When the truth gets truer

July 28, 2012 by bibsey mama 12 Comments

Shortly after giving birth, sometime after the unearthly tide of profanities spewed out in the throes of agony has been stemmed, many a mother will utter words along the lines of “She is the most important thing in my life now” or “I would do anything to protect him. I would lay down my life”. … [Read more…]

Posted in: Apropos of nada, Family, Life, the universe etc, Motherhood Tagged: fear, love, pizza, truth

The cruel tutelage of Bibsey Pai Mei ~ Vol I

May 15, 2012 by bibsey mama 12 Comments

Bill and Beatrix sit around the camp fire. Bill: Once upon a time in the mountains of Andalucia, some believe, around the year twelvety dos, head priestess of the Fickle Lotus Toddler Clan, Bibsey Pai Mei, was (not) eating her breakfast, contemplating whatever it is that a toddler of Bibsey Pai Mei’s infinite power and wisdom … [Read more…]

Posted in: Arse posts, Motherhood, Toddler Tagged: Bibsey Pai Mei, cruel tutelage, exploding cereal, Kill Bill
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