Well, it doesn’t really count yet. This was only orientation and she can’t begin 3 year old preschool by law until April, but we’re getting closer by the day and it’s scary. It’s scary enough it’s almost February. She was very excited. Once we got there, she was running all over, checking out all the…
Yesterday, when we were down the street for a walk, I was leading Keira by the hand over the pedestrian crossing, pushing Riley in the pram, when this woman tore around the corner in her little white Barina and barrelled through, without even slowing down. Luckily, Keira and I had almost stepped off it, so…
Adam loves Keira’s etch-a-sketch more than she does. Last night he doodled this: Me: Oh, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Which one is this?Adam: Uh… (thinks)…I can’t remember.Me: It’s Raphael.Adam: No, I don’t think so…Us simultaneously: Well, it can’t be Michelangelo, because he had nunchuks and he is everybody’s favourite, so that one’s easy.Adam: I think…
They look nice, don’t they? Except in making these I remembered why I don’t like packet mixes and would rather cook food from scratch. The icing sachet, when it came to making that part, was white, which I thought odd, as it was pink on the packet. So I mixed in the teaspoon of water…
“I’m sitting here eating a bowl of premium choc-chip icecream, which I don’t especially want, but it temporarily distracts me from the distresing fact that I’ve just heard Riley cry himself to sleep for the sixth night in a row. He is slowly – very slowly – getting better, but his night time going to…
Riley’s fever finally broke yesterday – after four straight days. I’d had a doctor’s appointment for this morning but decided to keep it anyway, just in case. So, this morning, as I’m dressing Riley I notice a bad rash around his ears and neck. I thought it was excema rearing its ugly head again. At…
Who needs Goals? Most of us, it would seem. It is a word I often use, but, honestly, ‘goal’ is such an arbitrary word, often abused in the attempt to sound driven and energetic. For example, it was my goal this morning to write this piece out on my back deck, with Keira to play…
Well, it’s 8.30am, and already Keira is out the back watering the garden (in reserved bathwater from last night – may I add. Don’t want to get into trouble with the water police). Did I mention she was nude? No? Sorry, I thought that was a given as these days she is stripping nude quicker…
I caught the below listing first at A Mama’s Rant. The text is taken from here ————————————————————————————-CALL FOR PAPERS Demeter Press is seeking submissions for the edited collectionMothering and Blogging: Practice and Theory Deadline for Abstracts: March 1, 2007Publication Date: Spring 2008Editors: May Friedman, Shana L. Calixte Critical mothering and writing about motherhood have, in…
