My new mother friend is Swiss. She has a toddling baby the same age as Cormac. We met in the park. This week she invited me over for lunch and she made a fondue. I learnt a lot about making fondue and while I probably couldn’t replicate her techniques I would at least now know [...]
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Fondue playdate
Posted in babies, cormac, motherhood, motherhood bliss, toddlers, your guide to perfect play dates on July 15, 2010 | 4 Comments »
On undoing the done
Posted in babies, lauca, motherhood, motherhood sux, pregnancy and birth, preschoolers on July 14, 2010 | 15 Comments »
When I see my mother friend, the one with ‘the only child’ and the one who has always been satisfied with only one child, I feel sudden waves of envy. I see what might have been. I see where we were, Lauca and I. Since having a second child I have become so impatient, my [...]
More much needed feedback
Posted in bill, fatherhood, lauca, motherhood bliss, preschoolers on July 14, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Five year old Lauca to her very good-natured father: You need to read more parenting books. Because it seems I don’t really enjoy being looked after by you much on these days, doesn’t it? (The last time Lauca provided feedback to her parents).
The best twenty minutes
Posted in babies, motherhood, motherhood sux on July 13, 2010 | 6 Comments »
The first twenty minutes after the baby falls asleep are always the best. So much promise; and so deeply asleep that everyone can breath again, loudly.
No baby shower, Jessica Valenti?
Posted in breastfeeding, downsized living, feminism, feminist motherhood, GLBTI, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, work and family (im)balance on July 11, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Huh. Big name feminist (and blogger of Feministing), Jessica Valenti is pregnant. I admit it, I get a little thrill from seeing others join the club of parenthood – suckers! And like Viva la Feminista, I kind of hope Valenti does some mummy blogging in the future. If she doesn’t it could feel like an [...]
Reasons to write
Posted in bill, fatherhood, me on July 11, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Him: You’re not tidying the house at all. You’re on your computer. Me: I was tidying. I just wanted to write something down quickly while it was in my head. Him: Hmmm. Me: Please just take Cormac back for a moment. I am writing something quickly. I just need to finish this thought. Please. This [...]
How come you love being a parent if you’re hating it so much of the time?
Posted in fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, work and family (im)balance on July 8, 2010 | 15 Comments »
This article, ‘All Joy And No Fun – Why Parents Hate Parenting’ from The New York Magazine is essential reading. I won’t say anything more yet, except how on-the-money this quote was: (Or, as a fellow psychologist told Gilbert when he finally got around to having a child: “They’re a huge source of joy, but [...]
On not getting it
Posted in fatherhood, motherhood, sex of the icky parental kind on July 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
When you have small children a lot of sexual intimacy with your partner takes the form of ‘dry humping’. They should tell you that in pregnancy books. You will become frustrated teenagers again – whispering innuendo to one another; sneaking suggestive glances; snatching hands back out of one another’s clothing as the interloper rounds the [...]
On being 14 months old
Posted in babies, cormac, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood bliss, toddlers on July 7, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Cormac seems to be losing words rather than gaining them at the moment. Sometimes everyone is Mama; it is most unendearing. And now suddenly all animals are called bird. No, that’s a dog Cormac, a dog. (You know that already, I want to say). More charming is his way of assigning a growl to every [...]
Welcome to Outrage World
Posted in feminism, pop culture on July 7, 2010 | 2 Comments »
What’s new, you ask. Well this, feminist blogs are the problem, apparently: As of this writing, Carmon’s post has generated almost 1,000 comments and nearly 90,000 page views. It’s a prime example of the feminist blogosphere’s tendency to tap into the market force of what I’ve come to think of as “outrage world”—the regularly occurring [...]
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