So tired!

I feel like singing that Lili Von Shtupp song from Blazing Saddles. I’m so tired! But not from that.
Woof woof! All night long. DD has *that* cough again. That cough that is dismissed by doctors as being nothing, even when it affects her breathing. I worked out I had a total of 4 hours [...]

How to tire a mother

A Guide for Toddlers
1. Ensure you wake 30 minutes after your mother has fallen asleep. Make sure you use the tone of whimper that is never noticed by fathers, or cough, or call out for a missing toy.
2. Keep on the act even after your mother has looked after you, thus making her so thoroughly [...]

Loud Mama

This post from Andrea Frazer has made me think more than possibly any other post she has written recently. I really enjoy reading Andrea’s blog. Her humour, honesty and winning way with words speak to me, often in the way that I need *right now*.
Her post was on “bragging cheerleading moms”, the ones who insist [...]

Oh Tantrum, how endearing you are!

I am used to DD’s tantrums. They start over the darndest of things: not finding her favourite socks or teddy bear, being made to wear clothes, being made to have a fresh nappy, not having biscuits and honey for breakfast, and that’s just before 7.45 am.
DD threw a tantrum just as we entered the [...]

Get up and help me!

I love Andrea Frazer’s posts at BabyCenter. (I’ll write about others whose blogs keep me sane, too!)
One post which I read today is Oh my God! Are your kids’ arms broken? Oh boy. That amused me maybe more than it should. You see, I have only one darling daughter, Mimi, who is two. However, I [...]

Making friends

I feel uneasy posting about this.
I have not encouraged my daughter to make friends with one child, let’s call her Natalie, at preschool because I don’t like the child’s father.
The first time I met him, it was as if he had an aura of spikes and static electricity. A grandmother told me of how he [...]

The Vegie Prayer

Lord, grant me the patience to not count the number of spoonfuls of vegies on the floor, but to rejoice instead in the amount that actually stayed in my daughter’s mouth.
Grant me the self-control to bite my tongue instead of lashing out with it in hurtful words when my cooking skills are criticised by a [...]

All aboard the good ship “Defiant”

Mimi has her own sweet way to let me know that I am not doing what she wants. If I take away something or try to move her somewhere she doesn’t want to go to, she turns to me with a determined look on her face and says the immortal words:
“No! Go away! Rawwrrrrrrrrr!”
Funnily enough, [...]

Me me me!

Oh yes, it’s all about me. Mimi celebrated her second birthday by letting us in to the secret of her ownership of everything. That is, everything that isn’t yucky (another new word). The most annoying one is “my sheat” (referring to my recliner, not Daddy’s whose recliner remains his).
For some reason, sit and [...]

Hello world!

At last! Some peace and quiet and I’ve had the opportunity to start this blog. Mimi is still asleep for her afternoon nap, though I’ve heard some stirrings from her room. The cats are sunning themselves and DH is reading the weekend papers.