Mondays are for the Millennial Mothers (and dads too. And aunts and uncles, grandparents and friends. It's just more alliterative this way...)

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This weeks's theme: Gadgets

A while back, I wrote a Modern Baby Shower Wish List that ( Read more... )

Mondays are for the Millennial Mothers (and dads too. And aunts and uncles, grandparents and friends. It's just more alliterative this way...) We are raising kids at the start of a new millennium. What are we doing? What are the challenges, old and new? Are we different from, or turning into, our own mothers?

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Having trouble blogging today because the ideas are finding it hard to sprout and grow under the sonic mulch of my five year old's prattling. He's lovely, and it's cute, but I can't even think of what my ideas for today's blog were ( Read more... )

I dumped A in extended-day care at school today, which meant I had until 2.45 to Get Lots Done ( Read more... )

Things were a bit stressed this morning but I provided some comic relief by putting G on the toilet and then into underpants (he's not amused!).

Then he peed in the garden. He looked absolutely appalled. I think he thought something had broken.

I brought you Bohemian Rhapsody and now I bring you The William Tell Overture. Kind of:

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I haven't used all these lines on my children yet, but only because they are small. I have had most of them used on me in the past, though, and I expect to use them myself many time. Reduce, reuse, recycle. Bob would be proud ( Read more... )

OK, so the journal finally has a proper name. "Ankle-bitten Authoring" was acting as a place holder while "Footloose and Freelance" was taken back to its desk with a filing box and a pink slip before being escorted off the premises.

Now, at long last, we have, Occupation: Mother which is, I think, close enough to sounding like a military ( Read more... )

Something had to give.

Life has been a bit tense on and off since the terrible two-and-a-half-s hit and decided to move in and stay. Mostly life is great, but when it's not? Hooo-boy, as they say.

I bought a book about how to do reward charts properly, as I suspected we had been a bit vague in the rewards/punishment area, and frankly, who has time to ( Read more... )

Thanks to Carol for this link:

Here's a post of someone who turned their old TV stand into a play kitchen for their kids.

Recycling, AND reduction (no new plastic, no new packaging), money-saving. It's warms the hippy corners of my heart.

This is why I'm not doing any paid work these days.