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Archive for July, 2009
Everything you wanted to know and were rude enough to ask
Posted in GLBTI on July 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Look at you
Posted in babies, cormac, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, your guide to perfect play dates on July 30, 2009 | 7 Comments »
What a lovely view; my baby being held by someone else. With Lauca I pretty much never got to see this because she wouldn’t go to anyone else and she screamed like a siren in their face if they so much as tried to smile at her. I was in a permanent state [...]
The cat has thoughts
Posted in this moment on July 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Someone who comments on this blog from time to time has the same ‘name’ as our cat and it is somewhat startling to find their comments here.
Good work puss.
The other kid is cute too
Posted in babies, breastfeeding, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, preschoolers, your guide to perfect play dates on July 30, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Before you ask, this is not my place, we were at a friend’s apartment for a tea party. My friend lives in an old apartment block that is kinda famous in our city and a photographer was with us today documenting her tea party for an upcoming book/exhibition. Yes, don’t I roll with a tragically [...]
These warm winter days
Posted in babies, cormac, motherhood, motherhood bliss on July 28, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Because, I can do pretentious
Posted in body image, cormac, fatherhood, motherhood, pop culture, toddlers on July 27, 2009 | 7 Comments »
If I ever want to frighten my partner I start telling him how much I dislike the standard options for little boy haircuts and how I am envisioning something quite different for our son.
Seeing the way he shudders in response is enough to keep me amused for a good hour or two.
When male midwives speak
Posted in feminism, motherhood, pregnancy and birth on July 27, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Did you miss this furore?
It’s good for women to suffer the pain of a natural birth, says medical chief
Well, all was not as it seemed.
Though I must confess that my birth plan included “no male midwives please”. Sorry fellas, me bad.
The second class baby
Posted in babies, breastfeeding, feminism, feminist motherhood, kindergarten, maternity leave, motherhood, motherhood sux, preschoolers, work and family (im)balance on July 27, 2009 | 24 Comments »
Alas, I can’t go too much into the specifics on this matter, but suffice to say that I may have found myself at a recent P&C meeting knee-deep in a fierce debate on whether a teacher at my daughter’s kindergarten, who is not long off having her first baby and who will be returning to [...]
Read this?
Posted in feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, this moment, work and family (im)balance on July 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
The latest issue of Ms. Magazine dedicates its cover story to on-line feminist motherhood. I haven’t got a copy (yet) so I don’t know what the piece is like.. has anyone read it?
The first song we danced together
Posted in babies, cormac, motherhood on July 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Not he and I, but rather our son and I. Guess who is finally getting a little tricky to get off to sleep?