Off to the school fair we went, carrying our contribution for the cake stand… Dan was on the plate smashing… The girls had a blast (with the highlight for Charlotte being a ride on the back of the Head Teacher’s motorbike around the school field!): The crowds gathered for the food, coffee, live music and […]
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A not so new Mummy gets a wake up call: Cocktails at Naptime
‘Cocktails at Naptime: A woefully inadequate guide to early motherhood,’ should carry a warning: Not advisable to read in the first six week’s postpartum. Guaranteed to make you laugh and burst your stitches. When Finch publishing kindly sent me a copy of Cocktails at Naptime, to read and review, I couldn’t ditch my rubber gloves […]
Hat Friday
When was the last time I had a shower? Best I don’t confess. Sometimes taking a nap is more of a priority; especially when little Miss 8 month year old decides to practice her new found vocal chords in the middle of the night. In a matter of weeks she’s gone from not moving at […]
Wardrobe Wednesday: Someone’s learned the art of keeping awake!
It’s close to 1am and little Miss 8 month old has decided it’s the perfect time to exercise her vocal chords. She has a beautiful voice and is making the most delightful sounds, only her timing is awful! I have brought her downstairs so she doesn’t wake up the rest of the household. I can […]
Wearing our Bandannas for CanTeen New Zealand
Today our wonderful nanny, Frances, who helps out for a few hours after school each day, was selling Bandannas to help raise funds for CanTeen New Zealand. Frances was diagnosed with cancer when she was only 7 and suffered into her teens, until she was finally in remission. She has been a volunteer with Canteen […]
Wardrobe Wednesday: Wishing for Sunshine
I’m wearing this colourful t-shirt from good ‘ole Marks & Spencer (thanks Mum!) in protest of the weather this week. In case you can’t read the words, they say, ‘Sunshine’ (weather please take note!). It’s not been too bad in Welly (down south they’ve had hail and another large, 5.0-magnitude, aftershock). We’ve had a few […]
Charlotte makes the semi-finals of the Nestle Milky Bar Kid auditions!
Way to go Charlotte! What an amazing experience! You made it to the semi-finals of Nestle’s search for New Zealand’s next Milky Bar Kid. Over 1,500 children auditioned and you made the top 59! The call back audition was a lot more work than we anticipated. We turned up, one windy, rainy Friday afternoon, at […]
Easy on the Ears & Cocktails at Naptime
After four week’s of listening to Sophie’s hacking cough night and day I made the call to the doctors; surely it wouldn’t be ‘just a cold’, ‘just a virus’? Alice had also come down with a thick, vile, mucus producing cold and with babies it’s always worth checking all is okay. They managed to fit […]
Wardrobe Wednesday: Warm enough for a skirt!
The challenge was set last week for no denim and no black. My wardrobe in summer is a lot more colourful and less denim dependent so when the sun came out on Friday (and stayed out for several days) I delved into the back of my wardrobe to my summer skirts with great excitement. I […]
Ten reasons I LOVE my job
No one tells me what I should wear and in the summer I live in bare feet and have little people volunteer to paint my nails (usually multi-colored and badly). I love not feeling pressured to scrub up in the latest fashion. Being able to wear a bikini top instead of a bra in summer […]
What a difference
It’s been two weeks since I visited the doctor and sought help for mild-depression. The medication made me feel really tired and fuzzy headed at first and I haven’t been running as a result. On the up side I haven’t been weepy or felt tense and angry. And today, for the first time, I felt […]
Waiting for the holidays to start
Term 3 comes to a close tomorrow and the children break up for two weeks holiday. For me, it’s going to be all go in the catering, entertaining, mediating and facilitating department. I have got rather too used to ‘just Alice and me’ time in the morning whilst Sophie is out at Kindi and Charlotte […]
Wardrobe Wednesday
It’s Charlotte’s turn with the camera this week, as she’s at home with a cold that’s dragging her down and leaving her with a croaky voice and nasty cough. She took this photograph of me this morning (after I’d put on a load of washing, done the hoovering and cleaned up the kitchen after breakfast). […]
‘Into the Wilderness’ and a Giveaway!
UPDATE, 20 October 2010: The winner of the giveaway is…. Leanne from Cottage Tails. Congratulations! The only reading I’ve done in the past six month’s has been young children’s literature with my girls and blogs (the latter mostly by the glow of my iPhone in the middle of the night whilst feeding Alice). When Sarah […]