If you can’t have snow, have sand

This trip to the beach was absolutely perfect. Thank you Lauca, thank you for growing out of that whole sand-freaking-out thing and the whole getting-my-skin-wet-feels-itchy-and-makes-me-scream thing too.
(Those are their Christmas present rashies).
How much do I love not being at work this week? Shared parenting, naps, reading novels, swimming.. if only next year’s maternity leave was [...]

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Tough problems

Lauca: Mummy, Daddy, my toilet is a little bit dusty.
Me: Really?
Lauca: Mummy, come with me, I’ll show you.
Me: Um ok.
Lauca: See dirt, dirt and here is dirt too.
Me examining what is to be fair, the floor of a pretty clean toilet.
Lauca: See?
Me: Hmm. Show your father, I think he needs to experience this moment.
Lauca: Daddy, [...]

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“I can hardly believe myself”

This is Lauca upside down on some sort of roller coaster giggling helplessly and saying “I can hardly believe myself”.
The kid has received so much spoiling in the last few weeks I can’t keep up. Her aunts and uncles have flown into town and she’s been breathing in attention like oxygen, and riding roller coasters [...]

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They better hope their white privelege is everything they ever dreamed it would be

Because naming your child in an act of hate mongering is quite the handicap for a kid to carry through life. Oh the irony of white supremacists, always very much the non-supreme people.

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More (extended) breastfeeding celebrities

I don’t know this celebrity, which is saying something. (I might be getting old). But the New York Post does and they’re being adorably ’seen to’ by lactivist readers after criticizing her (Kelly Rutherford -  that’s the celebrity) for saying that she breastfeeds her two-year old (gasp!):
“GOSSIP Girl” star Kelly Rutherford might not be uncomfortable [...]

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Some advice on thinking about rape/Queensland Attorney-General begs for a clue

Advice because life is short:
Of all life’s big questions, a question you probably need not spend too much of your valuable time trying to figure out is this – which rapes have a “minor impact” on victims. The answer is probably none, and if you think otherwise you need to drop your drawers and volunteer [...]

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Vaginas are fascinating

Particularly if you’ve never charted your menstrual cycle, you might want to check out My Beautiful Cervix.  Photographs of the author’s cervix through an entire cycle. A lot happens up there.
If you want to try charting then I can’t recommend this book enough, and I notice that that author has put out a book for [...]

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Meme-ing myself silly

This meme I came by at Two Women Blogging.
1) Five names you go by.
blue milk
Mummy/Mama
my actual name
Foxy (a nickname based around my surname, used mostly by work colleagues, what can I say – Australia is a very inappropriate place).
The name my little sister used to call me when she was too young to pronounce my [...]

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You probably want to know what books I recommend that I haven’t even read, and which haven’t even been printed yet

Some people I ‘know’ are putting out books and these would make mighty fine Christmas presents IF they were actually coming out now. I’m plugging them anyway. You might get money for Xmas or an Amazon voucher.
The Daddy Shift: How Stay-at-Home Dads, Breadwinning Moms, and Shared Parenting Are Transforming the American Family

Jeremy Adam Smith is [...]

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The party season – a little like open season

The party season is underway with a vengeance here, and this year even my enthusiasm for parties is managing to be tested. We are experiencing an overwhelming combination of adult and kid Xmas parties and adult and kid birthday parties in the one season. Who knew the kindergarten set was so damn social?
In more [...]

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