All my glorious triumphs in motherhood and some minor hiccups…
These days the new words falling from Bibsey’s lips are coming thick and fast. This week we had our first three-word sentence: “It’s a ball!” I love it! Mostly though it is the one-word statements that prevail like: moon, nose (this is an obsession at the moment – everything that moves is having it’s nose … [Read more…]
There is a beautiful road not far from here that winds through mountain and pine forest down to the coast. It is the alternative to the motorway and it is now the route that I take every fortnight or so to do my big supermarket shop. Driving on this road never fails to make me … [Read more…]
Whether it’s a slow dawning realisation or a jaw-clanging bombshell, from the moment they are out of the womb, you know we are all headed in the same direction: Mummydom. Clothes covered in baby spew/snot/cherry tomato pips/dried yogurt etc ~ yup. No room in the handbag for makeup ~ check. What’s makeup again? ~ thing … [Read more…]
I don’t have any children of school age, yet I still have that ‘end of holidays/start of a new term’ feeling about me. I feel it virtually on Twitter and Facebook. I feel it on other people’s blogs. And I feel the very real chill in the air in the evenings up the mountain, and … [Read more…]
Last week I wanted to take part in a lovely meme over at Doing it all for Aleyna which I stumbled upon via the the very funny and super-prolific Motherventing. The idea is to capture your week in seven words. Great, I thought. And my seven words were: Thoughts post MMR: PLEASE RESTORE FACTORY SETTINGS. … [Read more…]
