Words for Wednesday…

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Sometimes, when you’re the biggest of the smallest, life can get a bit too heavy. Like when you’re trying to do serious drawing for your Granny and your little brother colours all over it. Or when you’re only allowed use glue and scissors during his naptime…or when your Momma spends all of her time saving…
It’s day six already of the Keep Britain Breastfeeding Scavenger Hunt 2014 which means that… I’m 4 days from my due date! Today we’re talking about breastfeeding beyond a year which can be a touchy subject. Unless you’re going to breastfeed exclusively at home and without anyone ever seeing you, then if you’re like me,…
I suppose it’s only fair – or karma, if you believe in it – that as I remember so vividly destroying my parents’ neatly made bed in order to create a fantastic mattress slide, my own boys are determined I will never sleep on an uncrumpled sheet ever again. This weekend as I tried in…
So, what would we do with three nights where we could just throw the food into the oven and wait? Charlie Bighams challenged us to see how we could spend more time together if we weren’t in the kitchen at dinner time, and gave us three meals that we could simply pop into the oven,…
My “baby” is nearly two. He’s still my baby and there are still so many firsts to experience – such as getting his hair cut. I can’t bear that I might have to change his current Linus [Peanuts] hairdo to a big boy style, or his first real shoes [we’ve been wearing wellyboots and moccasins…
Today was the final time for our poor Baby Dragon had to be vaccinated. Three injections, three sets of tears, three pains that I wish I could take away from him. We sat in the chair, I held his vulnerable little body still, closed my eyes and hoped with all of my heart that somehow…