Sometimes a hastily pile of folded washing is the only good thing I achieve all day.
Parenting and Family.
Being a parent is wonderful, but sometimes it’s also just plain hard!
These parenting tips and ideas can help you find ways to make life with kids a little easier, and the real life stories from parents just like you might make you feel a little less alone.
My Perfectly Imperfect Life – Day 1
A Rod For My Back.
I’m not supposed to complain about this topic… because you know… I’ve created a ‘rod for my back’ and I ‘made my bed and now I have to lie in it’… which is a tad ironic since I am talking about co-sleeping. Yes, my ‘not-such-a-baby-any-more-baby’ co-sleeps. That is, he sleeps in our room, and in […]
Ten Things I’ve Learnt about Vomit.
If talk of spew makes you want to join in, you’d best click away now… We’ve been living in the land of vomit for the past 24 hours and in that time I have learnt a few things… 1) You can not catch a five year-old’s vomit in your cupped hands no matter how much […]
Ten Ways to Stay Cool with Small Children.
It’s freakishly hot in our part of the world at the moment, and set to get even hotter before the week is out. We don’t have air-conditioning or a swimming pool (I wish on both accounts) so four 40 degree days (that’s about 104 Fahrenheit) in a row isn’t going to be much fun with […]
Crafty Holiday Goodness!
Today officially marks the end of the the Kinder holidays for the Twinadoes. They are back at kinder this afternoon, epi pens and allergy plans in hand, all going well, hopefully I’ve had a bit of a love-hate relationship with having the girls home full time again, after only just getting everyone used to the […]
The Best Lullabies to Sing to Your Kids
I sang the same lullaby to my twins almost every night when they were babies – ‘Baby Mine’ the song from the Dumbo Movie. I still love that lullaby, but when my middle child was born and he took forever to get to sleep, I found myself singing it over, and over, and over, until […]
Is he a good baby??
Muski is 8 weeks old now. Eight weeks! Can’t really believe it has been that long… seems like only yesterday that he was born. It just doesn’t seem that long ago that we came home from hospital. Heck, I am still busy patting myself on the back for birthing him! In a lot of ways […]