I know, I know; I can hear you scraping your chairs closer already. When you’re childless (or childfree, depending on your viewpoint) you’re fairly certain you know how to bring up a child, could do better than the frazzled looking mum in the supermarket with her screaming children, have the best ideas on nutrition and […]
Category: Parenting
I became a parent in November 2009 and, as the cliché goes, my world turned upside down. PHP posts turned to pregnancy, midnight gaming turned to midnight (and 1am, and 2am, and …) feeds. Here lies documented tales of poop, boobs, toddler tantrums and the nitty gritty that goes with being Mum.
Easily Amused
We took Isabel to a local farm on Saturday. She was most entertained by: a) a pigeon b) a cement mixer c) headbutting a sheep (as in, she butted heads with the sheep through the fence … this is her way of greeting animals; obviously I’ve let the cats raise my child) I don’t know […]
Feeling Better
It’s amazing the good a decent night’s kip can do. Feeling much better this morning, much less emo. I’m flying through work stuff and none of the home stuff is worth making myself ill over, so I just need to take it steady and get through it one bit at a time. On an unrelated […]
What happened to January?
It only feels like 5 minutes ago I was getting myself all in a panic about how Isabel would settle at nursery, but apparently it’s well over a month. Oops. Neglecting my blog, much? Isabel settled into nursery quicker than I imagined she would. She’s adopted a blanket that I crocheted when I was about […]
Separation Anxiety and all that Jazz
I’m really struggling with being a parent right now. Don’t get me wrong, I love Isabel to billions of teeny tiny pieces (not literally, obviously), but I can’t stand to see her upset and that seems to be the status quo at the minute. Life’s hard for 14 month old babies. She’s going through a […]
Oh Bugger
Why is it that when I’m away from the computer I can formulate hundreds of blog entries in my head but the second I sit down to write anything, it all pours away? Buggery. I guess with the lack of anything inspirational or witty to say I should probably update you all on what’s going […]
Cloth Nappies: 6 Months On
Some of you may recall that back in June I worked out the cost of disposable nappies: how much we’d spent in the first 6 months and how much we’d spend if we carried on using them. I played around with some different types of cloth nappies and quickly considered myself converted. Although I’ve spent […]
Isabel’s First Birthday
Isabel turned 1 on Sunday. Crazy to think it has been a year since my world was turned upside down by a warm pink bundle of goo. It makes me all broody for more babies just thinking about it :D Anyway, to celebrate her birthday we had family over and ate crisps, sausage rolls, jelly […]
Confessions of a Bad Parent #1
Today I bribed Isabel with a Dorrito to stop her eating cat food off the kitchen floor.
On the Divisive Issues of Parenting
Naomi, in response to a question on why women trouble themselves with debate on divisive parenting issues: […] keeping women occupied with relatively trivial parenting matters which our ancestors didn’t think twice about means we don’t have time or energy to recognise our true status as women alienated from the real world, frustrated in our […]