People spend New Year’s Eve reflecting on their past year. What do they remember most? How do they remember it? As an adult, most of my memories are visual and emotional, the emotions coming from sights and sounds – a flurry of colour, music, shouting, crying, laughing. But when I look back on my childhood [...]
It’s almost been a year since I started blogging. I love that I started right at the beginning of a year. It’s pretty much right up there with the joy of renewing my car insurance on January 1st, which is perfect for taxes. This is perfect for reflecting on a true full year of blogging [...]
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This morning I was lying in bed, somewhere between half asleep and half awake after a long night of my two and a half year old waking up every 45 minutes to nurse. It was 8:00 and she wanted to nurse again. I was done. Finished. Exhausted. There would be no nursing. “Honey, you’ve been [...]
Merry Christmas! Happy Boxing Day! I hope this finds everyone enjoying the wind down from the Big Day. Today is my day to put all the gifts away, eat leftovers, set up toys for the kids and relax with a good book and a good post (or two or three) too! There’s a few holiday [...]
Here I go being nostalgic again… When I was a kid, we celebrated Christmas at my dad’s mom’s house by having Christmas dinner at lunchtime. My grandma was British, and this was one of her family traditions. I have fond memories of these Christmases. I have hoards of cousins on my dad’s side and the [...]
Today is Solstice, the shortest day of the year. It’s one of Mother’s Nature’s holidays, I tell my girls. So today we celebrated by going to the skating rink – their first time ever on real skates! They loved it! Afterwards we headed to a nearby, abandoned cemetary in the forest and sprinkled the headstones [...]
Welcome to the December Carnival of Breastfeeding. After reading my post make sure to check out the other participants’ posts linked to at the bottom of this one. My first daughter was three months old when she had her first Christmas. She was already a little person who was easily overstimulated, cried lots and [...]
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