Bad parent: Four year old daughter knows “you are being an arse” and “this is a pain in the arse” are terms used when you are feeling annoyed with someone. Good parent: Four year old daughter somehow mistakenly thinks it is pronounced ‘ask’ and so uses a PG rated version – “stop being a pain [...]
Archive for November, 2009
So, all good
Posted in lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, preschoolers on November 7, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Faster and faster
Posted in babies, cormac, lauca, motherhood on November 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »
This month I am frequently being swallowed whole in moments of déjà vu. On hands and knees, cleaning up bits of food from underneath the highchair, am I really here, already? And popping him down on the carpet in a video store, to sit with my purse and keys while I choose a DVD – [...]
[More] Feminist parents community noticeboard
Posted in feminist motherhood, motherhood, yummy mummy on November 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Calling all lab rats, subjects needed for research. Here is an international study on ‘Motherhood’ with an on-line anonymous survey. Easy peasy. Took me about 5-10 minutes and the survey was reasonably well designed. This survey request comes to me via contacts in academia but on further investigation it seems the project is linked to [...]
Almost a year later
Posted in cormac, lauca, motherhood bliss, preschoolers on November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
About a year ago Lauca took some photographs with my mother’s camera, which you can see here if you missed it (really, how?). And now, some recent photos taken by Lauca. Why yes, that is five seconds of your life you will never get back. Unless you are my family, and then you will be [...]
How to feel suburban
Posted in babies, cormac, lauca, motherhood, your guide to perfect play dates on November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Visit your sister and brother-in-law in their inner-city apartment and from their balcony watch a police seige (complete with police dogs, riot squad, and reporters) unfold on the street below. A bit more interesting than watching people mow their lawns, isn’t it baby?
The coincidence
Posted in babies, bill, cormac, fatherhood, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, preschoolers on November 3, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Something I didn’t notice until I was downloading the photos, the baby and his father are wearing virtually the same outfit. Kinda sweet, kinda naff. As a point of mild interest for non-Australians (maybe), lurking above the horizon of trees on the right of these photos is the Sydney Harbour Bridge. So now you have [...]
The conversation
Posted in babies, cormac, motherhood bliss on November 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
May as well photo blog if I can’t manage anything else.
Slow blogging
Posted in babies, cormac, motherhood, motherhood sux on November 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The baby’s sleeping patterns have descended into thoroughly shitful and I have no time for blogging, or anything else. But I will return.
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