What could be better than family time in Auckland, New Zealand? We moved from San Diego and definitely miss the weather, but life in Auckland is just peachy!
It has been SO long since I have written a T.I.L post {Hi Meg!} but in celebration of – hopefully – putting the baby-who-does-not-nap down for a sleep, I will type like a bat outta hell and try to actually finish a post. So loving …
Last week as parents around the world celebrated breast feeding and attended Big Latch On events, we found ourselves firmly back in breast feeding mode after a break of eight years. To be honest, it wasnt going well. Just like everything to do with Ethan’s …
E has been limping around the house, limping around the rugby field and walking on his tip-toes for about 6 weeks now. As he has some pretty brilliant melodramatic tendencies we just assumed his complaints were to be taken with a grain of salt. That …
Everything is measured in 2 hour increments in our house at the moment. Life revolves around our sweet little alarm clock who is always hungry and not too fond of sleeping {or of me putting him down}. I had forgotten how long it can take …
What an amazing, {traumatic}, and very wonderful 10 days our family has had. Baby Hippo finally arrived and we named him Nixon. We are all so in love with him, it’s hard to believe we could be so lucky. After 5 days in hospital I …
Obviously I outdid my self with my kitchen exploits on Thursday, you know, pumpkin soup and homemade bread rolls for dinner so I kept it real and decided on Pizza Hut for dinner and once again had dinner organised by 9.30am! I am amazing. Work …
As I near full term status (36 weeks today!!) I have been thinking a lot about how I have felt during this pregnancy, eight years on from my first. I have come to the conclusion that pregnancy the first time around is monumentally focused on …
Mother’s Day was perfection this year. Textbook even {until 1am when I finally conceded that sleeping in our bed was a battle I had lost and it was time to try semi-upright snoozing in the Lazy-Boy. Belly-too-big!). Ugh. Back to perfect Mother’s Day. There was …
I’m writing this on Saturday evening, the night before Mother’s Day, thinking about what it means to me this year, 7 weeks (hopefully less) away from becoming a Mama of two. I just read Ethan a chapter from his book, snuggled in my bed, Dave …
Three dogs. On their the couch. Sometimes I have to remind myself that he who pays the mortgage controls the couch, though I don’t think these three care too much about the household division of power.