Last night Patrick and I sat down for some dinner in a real restaurant (wow!) and in between responding to requests from Evie, putting more food on her plate, conversing with her in 1 syllable words and doing the ocassional animated expression, we discussed things. We discussed the practice, we decided that we work with…
Category Archives: Parenting
I dream of playing mums and dads
Image source As you may (or may not!) have read in my goals for 2012, I’m ready to finish working and be a mum. I thought I could do it all. But all it has brought with it is stress and what seems like bad mothering! This is the year. This year I’ll be playing…
SYL12 – Week 2: Define your values
I’ve always thought values were really quite useful in understanding what’s important to me and what is important to others. It has always helped me to accept people just as they are much more easily and helped me to see things from their point of view. Image source I remember having a conversation once with…
Healthy birthday cake
A few people have asked me for more information about the birthday cake I made for Evie’s first birthday. So here goes… It was pretty simple. As you can probably see in photos! The cost came to about $60 (AUD) for the fruit, skewers and candle. But I bought all organic fruit so perhaps…
Birthday cake for a 1 year old. Yay or nay?
Evie recently had her first birthday and I went searching online for a healthy option for a birthday cake but didn’t find much. Even on paleo-diet sites I couldn’t find a recipe that suited us. So I made up my own. My main concern was Evie. She had never had cake of any sort of…
Forget the ‘loose weight, quit smoking’ for me
They say money can’t buy happiness. But money would buy me a huge-ass dishwasher. That in turn would bring me great happiness. My new years resolution this year is to get a dishwasher. I’m over washing dishes! That will be all. Alexandra
What idiot blogs on Christmas?
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…
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…
Cave-mumma!
Caveman parenting. What is that?! Cave-man parenting is the concept I parent by. There are so many terms floating around to describe similar parenting styles… Gentle parenting and natural parenting to name a few. So why add caveman parenting into the mix? To me it incorporates both natural parenting and living a healthy lifestyle (food,…
