Freedom and things you take for granted
While N was at his settling in sessions at nursery and I was still not back at work, it was great to be able to do those simple things that you forget about as you’ve adapted to children’s needs. Parking….
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Listography: tips for bloggers
I’ve not been blogging for very long but as Kate says when setting the theme for this time’s listography, there’s tips that are useful from any level of blogger. So here’re my tips: Ultimately though I think it just boils…
Week 2: One born every minute…pain
The second week of One Born Every Minute & Netmums link up in conjunction with the tv show (C4 9pm Wed 11th). This week the blog link up is on pain, so here’s my take on it during N’s arrival….
Returning to work
Two days in and I can’t quite believe that people say they like going to work to get a break from looking after the kids. I reckon it’s the other way round, but maybe we’re lucky in that N’s quite…
New Tricks
We’re rapidly approaching a year old (well in a few weeks time), and N’s been practising some of his new favourite tricks. I love the way he just practises over and over again a though he’s so excited that he…
Settling in at nursery
After his last settling in session yesterday, today N starts at his day nursery properly. Yesterday’s session was for 2 hours to include lunch. He did cling slightly when I went to hand him over, and was a little upset…
Jeans on young children – how times change
Denim – greatly practical, and loved by lots of different age ranges. Obviously they’re a personal thing anyway, but when it comes to babies, they seem to divide people’s opinions. I’m not a fan of them on really small babies,…
One born every minute – Dads
One Born Every Minute starts again on Channel 4 at 9pm this Wednesday 4th January, with the theme of dads. They’ve linked up with NetMums to get people to share their birth experiences and here’s mine with my thoughts on the…
Listography: Top 5 photos of 2011
Mmm, big event this year which was N’s arrival, so I’m anticipating this could be quite obvious! I have taken hundreds of photos this year, so it’s quite hard to choose which 5 make it to this listography list of…
Oh Christmas tree
If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that I was struggling to get agreement to put the christmas tree up…excuses given mainly revolved around “it’s dangerous with a nearly one year old”. Thankfully, after a lot of moaning and hints…
Bleak house…illness reigns
Makes a change that I’m the healthy one in this house, as my OH always moans I have the sniffles. OH’s come down with a kind of tonsillitis illness that he sometimes suffers from. Of course being bank holiday weekend…