Today, I entered "real life". It may be that you are under the illusion that I have always been participating in such a state, but you would be wrong ( Read more... )

Still a mother ( Read more... )

Last week, I looked at the fact that I had 94,500 words down on my ms and blithely considered the possibility of reaching 100,000 by the end of the month. To be specific, by the 30th, which is the day my honey goes back to work and I am officially a stay-at-home-mum/writer on my OWN ( Read more... )

Weeks 1 & 2 hereWEEK THREE ( Read more... )

While sending the last post, I realised that I already had an LJ tag for 'sleep'. How odd. I clicked it, and found this: Good Baby from Raeli's babyhood ( Read more... )

"Worst advice you can give to someone with a newborn? Sleep when the baby sleeps. That is total and utter crap. Because one nap can be three hours and then the next nap is like fifteen seconds, and when that latter naps happens and you've just put your head down to go to sleep, oh Lord, the agony. And the pain. And the ANGER. And of course it's ( Read more... )

Pretty much as soon as I knew I was pregnant, jumbled_words started knitting for me - and while she wasn't the only one to set to work on beautiful handmade woolly things for me, she was definitely going to be the only one who would understand and respect my need (not desire - NEED) for Arsenal booties ( Read more... )

More baby photos! We've bee inundated with all manner of gifts since Jemima came along, all very much appreciated. In particular, our girls (cos there have been lots of big sister presents too) have been much spoiled with toys, new clothes and beautiful handmade items.

( a few examples... )

It's been two weeks, in Jemima-time. Somehow we've skipped from 'she's a couple of days old' to 'she's nearly two weeks old' and it doesn't seem like there was much in between but fog. I've run out of anti-biotics, though, so that's 6 days since the emergency room... I can fill in the gaps if I need to, but mostly it's a fog of 'school day, ( Read more... )

Eight days ago, I baked a cake, put my daughter in the bath, finished an Ursula Le Guin novel, wrote the review of it, and then... my waters broke ( Read more... )