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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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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

Top 5 Wishes for my Daughter

April 26, 2012 by bibsey mama 6 Comments

  W is for Wishes. Hooray. I was so hoping that one of the Listography challenges over at Kate Takes 5 would dovetail with my April Alphabetical Odyssey, and it has! This week she asks: If you were able to influence the Fairy Godmother, what would you wish for your children? Here’s mine: For today I wish … [Read more…]

Posted in: A-Z Challenge 2012, Life, the universe etc, Motherhood Tagged: life, listography, love

Top 5 blogging tips

January 21, 2012 by bibsey mama 16 Comments

I really am dying to read all the blogging tips offered up for this week’s Listography at Kate Takes 5, but I am holding off until I have contributed myself. This is the perspective of an expat mummy blogger of one year, who just wanted to write and share stuff and might sometimes feel a … [Read more…]

Posted in: Blogging Tagged: listography

Top 5 worst jobs I’ve done

October 4, 2011 by bibsey mama 16 Comments

Ha! When I saw this week’s Listography topic over at Kate Takes 5 I knew I had to join in, if only because her ‘sh*t-jobs-I’ve-done’ list reads a bit like mine.  So here goes: 1. Banana picking, Tully River, Queensland, Australia Correction: not banana picking. Girls were not allowed to actually pick the bananas. And … [Read more…]

Posted in: Apropos of nada, Expat files, Life, the universe etc Tagged: listography

This was the summer that…

September 3, 2011 by bibsey mama 18 Comments

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…]

Posted in: Motherhood, Spain Tagged: listography, MMR, summer
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