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Archive for June, 2008

Enjoy the silence….

Posted in General Musings, tagged , on 20 June, 2008 | 13 Comments »

While we pack up our house, move across town and deal with the inevitable interruption in broadband (argh!), things may get a little quiet here in HPP-land. Don’t worry, normal service will resume shortly!

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Giggle…

Posted in Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, Mothering on 18 June, 2008 | 3 Comments »

While browsing the Breastfeeding forum at MDC today, the following google ad caught my eye:

Tee hee… not quite sure if that’s exactly the type of pump nursing mums are looking for, but thanks for the recommendation anyway!

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Put your old bras to good use!

Posted in Breastfeeding, Family, General Musings, Ireland, Mothering, health, tagged , , , , , , , , on 16 June, 2008 | 10 Comments »

Cancer Care West & the Mayo Cancer Support Association are asking us all to send a bra and a donation to them to help in their November attempt to break the Guinness record for the longest unbroken chain of bras, they need 120,000 bras and the chain they form will be in excess of 70 [...]

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Ooh… Look what we won!

Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babywearing, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, tagged , , , on 16 June, 2008 | 7 Comments »

Have a look at what Mr. Postman brought for littlepixie last week, a beautiful Nest hatchling sling so she can carry her dollies/bears around. I entered a giveaway a few months ago at Mama Speaks, and won, but my poor little hatchling got lost in the post
Ashlee of Nest Baby Slings and [...]

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Busy, busy, busy like a bee

Posted in Children, Family, General Musings, Ireland, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, tagged , , , on 15 June, 2008 | 8 Comments »

We’re moving house. hopefully very soon!
Mr. HPP’s job moved to a village just outside the city, resulting in a very long bike commute for him. It’s not too bad now with all the general pleasantness of cycling in summer, but in the winter, brrrr… He cycles along the coast road which even now has a [...]

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Crafty & Green Household tip: Bag for lonely socks

Posted in Family, Green Living, SAHM, tagged , , , , on 10 June, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Picture this. Two socks, in a laundry basket. Happy. Making plans. One sock wants to see the world. She whispers about the exciting adventures she will have to her staid mate. He doesn’t want to travel. He will stay here. Safe. He will wait for her, no matter how long, no matter what happens. It’s [...]

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A little too realistic for my liking…

Posted in Family, Food & Drink, Vegan, Vegan Cooking, Vegetarian, tagged , on 6 June, 2008 | 10 Comments »

I gave up eating chicken nuggets long before I became vegetarian, once you read what goes into a chicken nugget you can’t look at them the same again! Plus nine times out of ten I would always end up gagging on a piece of gristle, ugh!
Anyway, our local supermarket has recently been overshadowed by a [...]

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Any Changes?

Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Babywearing, Breastfeeding, Children, Co-Sleeping, Family, General Musings, Green Living, Ireland, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, Vegan, tagged , on 5 June, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Today I’ve been inspired by Danielle at New Mommy Rant to continue my virtual housekeeping. I checked for and repaired deadlinks 2 weeks ago so they should be grand, I still have to divide my blogroll into easier-to-manage sections, I have a few new blogs to add to it. I had a look at other [...]

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New Books!

Posted in Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, baby signing, tagged , , , on 5 June, 2008 | 8 Comments »

I have an online shopping problem, you all know that. Here are the latest fruits of my shopping labours… two new books for Littlepixie, ah selfless guilt-free shopping, the best kind!
The two books are “I am a Little monkey” and “I am a little elephant” both by Francois Crozat.
Littlepixie loves monkeys and elephants and [...]

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Breastfeeding imagery - a collection

Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, Lactivism, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, Toddler, tagged , on 4 June, 2008 | 8 Comments »

I’ve been following a thread on MDC where people have been adding links to their favourite breastfeeding images, be they photos, paintings, sketches, statues, advertisements, public awareness campaigns or jewellery.
But as with all threads on such busy forums, this one will eventually start to slip into the archives, so I thought I would take [...]

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