What idiot blogs on Christmas morning? Me. This can’t be my child. Fast asleep on Christmas morning. I’ve already gone downstairs (I love that I can say downstairs now, it’s just like the movies!) to see if Santa has come yet. And he has! He has! There’s presents! So now I wait. I thought that…
Monthly Archives: December 2011
My one and only Christmas post (so far)
Over the years, I have forgotten about Christmas. I used to LOVE it. I decorated our family home like mad, I went all out in the present giving, I baked Christmas-treats-galore and I spent hours wrapping my presents in the most beautiful and creative way that I could think of so that they all matched…
Paleo gingerbread
Yesterday a friend of mine invited us to her house for an afternoon of Christmas cooking. For those of you who know me (and/or Rebecca) we are not quite in the habit of feeding our children unhealthy food. In fact, so much so that our children would have no idea what Coke was, they think…
Is it normal for a baby to have a flat spot on their head?
From my research, no. Common and normal are not necessarily the same thing. I have had a draft of this post sitting here for the last 3 months now but have never been game enough to post it as there are SO many babies who have ‘flat spots’ or misshaped heads. I have come across…
A day in the life of a 1 year old
Yesterday our beautiful little Evangeline was one year old. Everyone says it but… wow that has gone quickly! Yet, I can hardly remember or imagine life without her. Yesterday morning I thought about myself one year ago – in labour, exhausted, pushing, numb, not-thinking-anything. And then I had a baby in my arms. Patrick crying…
Crazy pregnancy questions
Yesterday I was lying down in my Acupuncturists office and my thoughts led me to ‘What was I doing this time last year?’ I don’t often have time to sit down and reflect but I made a conscious effort to go along with these thoughts and guess where it took me? Back to a scary…
