What I like? An afternoon playdate that extends into an invitation for my child to join their children for a bath and dinner. Bonus points for making this invitation on our very first playdate together. And a couple more points for having such a nice husband and dog. It was a really cool dog.
Archive for June, 2009
Friday evening
Posted in motherhood bliss, preschoolers, work and family (im)balance, your guide to perfect play dates on June 5, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Guest Post: Stepmothering and feminist motherhood
Posted in 10 feminist motherhood questions, 10 things, fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, guest post, motherhood, preschoolers on June 4, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Guest post: Stephanie blogs at group blog, The Hand Mirror. She lives with her partner and for almost half the time with his 5 year old daughter also. Consequently Stephanie has become a step-mother. Here is her response to my 10 questions about your feminist motherhood. Stephanie’s response to these questions as a stepmother is [...]
I grew up on a blog (first smile to be caught on camera)
Posted in babies, cormac, me, motherhood, motherhood bliss on June 3, 2009 | 7 Comments »
As I mentioned previously, I have had a bit of trouble coming up with a name for this baby for use on blue milk. But I have now settled on one of his runner up names, which was Cormac. We named our daughter after an author (so for those of you who missed those old [...]
On neglect
Posted in babies, motherhood, motherhood sux, preschoolers on June 2, 2009 | 15 Comments »
Brushing my daughter’s hair after a few days of ignoring it and finding an old band-aid in it. Letting my daughter’s bath out and on closer inspection finding an elderly apple core, which has clearly bobbed about with her bath toys for a few bath times. Breaking pretty much every one of my parenting communication [...]
Sassy, huh?
Posted in bratz hatred/pornification/sexualising children, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood on June 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Well, how about that. (I’ve said a lot about this whole big issue previously, like this and this and this and this).

