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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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Totally Smitten Daddy

Five things I want you to know about your father

September 2, 2011 by bibsey mama 19 Comments

Yay. Friday Club is back. As always, thanks to Ella for the inspiration and for being such a lovely host. Boo. I wanted to write a poem but I quite simply cannot get my shit together so have reverted to good old blog prose. I am absolutely dashing to make the deadline… Anyway, Bibsey my … [Read more…]

Posted in: Apropos of nada, Life, the universe etc Tagged: Friday Club, Mr B, Parenthood, Totally Smitten Daddy

These are my lucky years

April 10, 2011 by bibsey mama 7 Comments

And so. I am struggling with the blog/life balance and of course life is winning hands down. And quite rightly when life has been looking a little like this… It seems that the heat has arrived here in Southern Spain and along with it picnics, barbeques and lazy días en el campo. Today we headed … [Read more…]

Posted in: Apropos of nada, Baby, Motherhood, Spain Tagged: Bibsey, Parenthood, spain, Totally Smitten Daddy

Dropping my ‘precious’

February 13, 2011 by bibsey mama 1 Comment

I dropped the blogging machine yesterday: my beautiful MacBook Pro apple-side-down on the cold hard Spanish tiles. Incredibly it is still working, but now it has an ugly hairline crack on the once pristine trackpad. And a bit of a scratch on one of its corners. So my window on the world is still open, … [Read more…]

Posted in: Spain Tagged: MacBook, Totally Smitten Daddy

What Mummy just needs…

February 3, 2011 by bibsey mama Leave a Comment

Ever since we brought the baby home from the hospital I don’t seem to have stopped uttering the phrase ‘I just need to…’ or, more recently, ‘Mummy just needs to…’. Needs to what? What is it that Mummy ‘just’ needs to do? Well, take your pick: Mummy just needs to: do the washing up, put … [Read more…]

Posted in: Baby, Breast feeding Tagged: baby, breastfeeding, cava, house work, sleep, Totally Smitten Daddy

Terrible things I have done to my baby Part I

February 1, 2011 by bibsey mama Leave a Comment

Please let me not be the only one who has done terrible things to her baby. Here is the beginning of a long list of utterly dreadful things that I have inflicted on my child out of shear desperation, confusion and sleep deprivation… #1. Forcing a dummy (something that she has never abided) into her mouth … [Read more…]

Posted in: Baby, Motherhood, Occasional confessional Tagged: baby spew, nappies, poo, Totally Smitten Daddy

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