Tag Archive: motherhood

Giveaway. Competition. Free stuff. I’m excited!

I am here to announce that the super lovely people at Simon and Schuster Publishers have sent me a book to use for a giveaway. A book, you ask? Well it’s not just any book. It is this book: Image source Mum told me about this book and about Mayim a few weeks ago. That…

Comment of the day…

And todays comment of the day goes to an Associate Professor at Flinders University… “Some people do it, so it’s not as if it’s impossible.” [in regards to breastfeeding] When I sat down with my little Evangeline in our local cafe today, there was a newspaper on the table. I don’t know when the last…

16 ways to wake a sleeping baby

I’ve been noticing that lots of people are joining up with Shae at Yay For Home by posting ‘Things I know‘ on their blog each week. I thought I might join the party today and write about something I know very, very well. You’ll be happy to know that I have researched and personally tried…

Why I cosleep… plus a little bit of fuel for the fire!

I wasn’t going to bother with this (I rarely retaliate) but I have had people rubbing it in my co-sleeping face all day. Yesterday there was an article in our local paper about co-sleeping and it’s apparent dangers. As the media does, it was designed to spark up some debate and throw around some fear……

Abort ship! There’s poo!

So there we were… a nice Tuesday morning with our whole family together in the bathroom. Gracie and Evie in the bath together, daddy and mummy having a shower together (unfortunately not the least bit romantic – it was more of a combination of ‘quick-have-a-shower-while-the-kids-are-occupied’ and ‘we-have-to-keep-an-eye-on-them-anyway-so-may-as-well-do-something-constructive-in-bathroom!’) Nonetheless, it was nice. But it didn’t last…