I don’t like to brag, but this is ten minutes from our house. There is absolutely nothing cool about the area we live in* – I often feel intense envy reading other blogs and seeing where their authors live, I get very restless and tell Bill that we have to move immediately or I will [...]
Archive for December, 2010
New Year’s Eve
Posted in bill, cormac, fatherhood, lauca, me, motherhood, motherhood bliss, school kids, toddlers, your guide to perfect play dates on December 31, 2010 | 12 Comments »
Whore-shaming
Posted in bratz hatred/pornification/sexualising children, feminism on December 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Image via Feministe. On one end of the spectrum you have the self-identified sex worker on the street corner and on the other end of the spectrum you have the wife who has sex with her husband knowing they are going to the mall tomorrow. Between the two you have a range of different scenarios. [...]
Feminist Islam
Posted in feminism, race/anti-racism on December 29, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Really interesting article here from Mona Eltahawy which yielded, among other things, this fabulous quote: To be a Muslim and a feminist is to stand in the crossfire and yell “Shut the f**k up!” to everyone around you because you know that anything you say can and will be used against you by everyone. And [...]
Last visit to the sea before the end of the year
Posted in cormac, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, school kids, toddlers on December 29, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Image: Cormac caught unpacking my handbag. Image: The children on a visit to their great-grandfather’s place at the sea. My cousin (who is very nice) was there with her children and over lunch I learnt that she conducts annual planning sessions with her children and husband to set goals for the year ahead. Apparently they [...]
Spoilt
Posted in lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, school kids on December 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Me: What a lovely present. You kids have spoilt me rotten for Christmas this year. Lauca (with a great deal of affection): Well.. you are pretty rotten.
Christmas 2010
Posted in cormac, goddamn craft, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss on December 27, 2010 | 6 Comments »
The vegetarian version of Christmas chicken: alive and pretty, wandering in the garden. My mother’s Christmas tree this year. Every year she pulls together a different creation on Christmas Eve. This might be where Lauca’s Goddamn Craft gene comes from. Speaking of which.. A walk after breakfast to inspect the floods at my mother’s place. [...]
Free yourself
Posted in feminist motherhood, nothing on December 26, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Always thoughtful
Posted in lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, school kids on December 23, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Lauca: I haven’t stepped on a crack once this whole year. Me: Thank you. No wonder my back is feeling good.
Killing fun
Posted in babies, motherhood, sex of the icky parental kind, the first year of motherhood on December 23, 2010 | 12 Comments »
One of my first ‘fork in the road’ moments as a parent was when I began reading baby-advice books and was introduced to those written by Tracey Hogg and Gina Ford where I learnt that there is a significant proportion of the population who likes their parenting to be following a tightly scripted schedule. I [...]
More of December: takes a strange turn
Posted in bill, co-sleeping, cormac, lauca, meltdown (theirs and yours), motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, pop culture, preschoolers, school kids, toddlers, your guide to perfect play dates on December 23, 2010 | 20 Comments »
You know, Lauca can be so mature and loving and brave and charming that sometimes I feel bad about describing her as ‘highly strung’. Even so, it is a term I use out of delicate politeness because ‘highly strung’ really does not cover it. When we’re in the thick of it, ‘emotional basketcase’ might be [...]
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