Domestic Goddesque

Annabel Violet Grace
born 7:10pm, 17th February 2010
8lbs and the image of her doting Daddy.

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My life is no longer my own. Evidence:

1. I have a To Do list a page and a half long. My brain has turned to mush so if I don’t write it down, it’s forgotten in a breath.
2. I know I have feet and toes. I just can’t see them. I can’t remember [...]

You get to Christmas and when people have stopped talking about presents and shopping and asking “are you ready?” they ask the classic rhetorical question: where did this year go? I wondered the same thing at 4am when I was lying awake being kicked by the Jumping Bean. I didn’t really get into blogging until [...]

Peggy at  A Mother’s Secrets is compiling stories about pregnancy lows, so I thought I’d share mine:
I hated DH, who wasn’t DH at that point (by which I mean he wasn’t my husband rather than he wasn’t my darling) for making me learn to drive. I hated the lessons, though he found me an annoyingly [...]

IN truth there are several new developments, which is not really a surprise, given that I haven’t put metaphorical pen to paper since January.:
1. The new blog is taking a little longer than planned, but I’m still optimistic that it will be up and running soon. I will then do my best to get back [...]

Cecily Jean Olivia (CJ) born Sunday 18th May 2008 at 12:55pm, and weighing 7lbs 1oz and pretty damn perfect.

I have been a bit lax of late in the blogging department. Put it down to nesting and such- but now the nursery has been painted, decorated, furnished, curtained and dog-proofed. The Moses basket is stationed by my bed and the car seat is installed (so the dog gets used to it being there, you [...]

The mothership is expanding my readership in the little corner of Africa that she calls home. She is a very excited grolly(granny)-in-waiting and I think that the ex-pat community in Addis Ababa know more about my pregnancy than my friends do. They should have a face to put to the name (anyone who has a [...]

The mothership is expanding my readership in the little corner of Africa that she calls home. She is a very excited grolly(granny)-in-waiting and I think that the ex-pat community in Addis Ababa know more about my pregnancy than my friends do. They should have a face to put to the name (anyone who has a [...]

I naively assumed that once we found out what flavour baby we were having that it would stop all the questions….how wrong I was. The moment you tell people what you are having, they immediately ask what names you have chosen, then look almost outraged when you reply that the baby’s name will be a [...]