On the day Bill works from home he pretty much always offers to pick me up from the station when I am getting home from work, even when it is late. Bill is that sort of person, kind and generous. But also he is like me after a hard day alone with the kids – [...]
Archive for September, 2010
On having a house-husband (one day a week)
Posted in bill, breastfeeding, cormac, fatherhood, feminist motherhood, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, preschoolers, toddlers, work and family (im)balance on September 29, 2010 | 9 Comments »
On being the last to leave
Posted in motherhood, motherhood bliss, your guide to perfect play dates on September 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
For me a really good playdate starts during the morning and doesn’t end until long after dinner. There is a rough patch two-thirds of the way through where you and the other mother think about throwing in the towel and calling it a day because the kids are getting tired and hungry and difficult, but [...]
Collingwood Children’s Farm
Posted in cormac, lauca, motherhood bliss, preschoolers, toddlers, your guide to perfect play dates on September 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I am all talked out at the moment. I have enough words left to say that we really like a good city farm, like this one.
Breakfast
Posted in cormac, lauca, motherhood bliss, preschoolers, toddlers on September 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Review: Radical Act
Posted in feminism, pop culture on September 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Radical Act, a documentary by Tex Clark, was filmed back in 1995 and is about the queer/feminist music scene in the USA at that time. The documentary is simple but endearing - Clark interviewed female musicians and music journalists about the impact of their sexual and gender identity on their work. And with the likes [...]
Strange behaviour
Posted in bratz hatred/pornification/sexualising children, feminism, motherhood, motherhood sux, rape/sexual abuse on September 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »
This woman was 14 years old when her own daughter was born. She is 27 years old now. As a young mother she has probably often experienced her parental authority being undermined. Her daughter is 13 years old and has been sexually assaulted by her grandfather. (It is quite possible that the grandfather is also [...]
Just wondering
Posted in nothing, politics on September 20, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Did The Age newspaper use this line intentionally for fun or do they not realise what the rest of us understand “cone time” to mean? From an article titled ‘Pause for thought: Julia Gillard has been running for 90 days straight – she needs time out to take stock and work on the big picture’ [...]
Cormac finds Spring
Posted in cormac, motherhood, motherhood bliss, toddlers on September 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Melt down in the snow
Posted in cormac, lauca, meltdown (theirs and yours), motherhood, motherhood bliss, preschoolers, toddlers on September 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is Cormac when he saw snow for the first time. Just adorable. How I love snow. Oh it all looks so jingle bells, though in all honesty we had a lot more of these moments (see below) than those above. Lauca and Cormac had the most dreadful simultaneous melt downs in the snow. Bill [...]
The family holiday
Posted in bill, fatherhood, motherhood, motherhood bliss, preschoolers, toddlers on September 19, 2010 | 4 Comments »
At the airport, on route back from a family holiday. Bill to me: When we get home one of us needs to go right out and get a loaf of bread. And some valium. And maybe some marriage counselling. Or family therapy? Me: Ah-huh. Later on in the aeroplane. Me: When Cormac gets older we [...]
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