Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Co-Sleeping, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, tagged breast feeding, night-weaning on 5 June, 2009 | 14 Comments »
It’s been 7 nights, some ups, some downs, but overall very positive and I am absolutely amazed to be able to write this but here it is…. Littlepixie is nightweaned!
We decided to attempt nightweaning to address some of my exhaustion issues, and (very surprisingly indeed) it has gone really well! We have had the most [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Co-Sleeping, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler on 29 May, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Just in case anyone is wandering by and wondering “I wonder what I can say to my friend to make her understand that she is doing a wonderful job as a mother, and to let her know that I am there for her, and support her breastfeeding & cosleeping choices even though I really do [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, General Musings, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, health on 17 May, 2009 | 12 Comments »
It seems a little bizarre to blog about the fact that I’m taking a wee break from blogging, yet here I am. So, yeah, I’m taking a wee break from blogging
I am too tired. I am. I haven’t slept more than 2 hours at a time in over 2.5 years, no I lie, [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Babywearing, Children, Family, Holidays, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, tagged Sling, slings, manduca, ssc, soft-structured-carrier on 5 April, 2009 | 13 Comments »
Over the last week or so, Littlepixie has been asking to go up in “blue sling”. She has developed a love of back carries in our Manduca, so it will be joining us on our holidays, which should hopefully make our buggy-free days easier!
It is a really comfy sling, probably the comfiest we have and [...]
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You know sometimes how you just float along doing your thing, and you forget how truly amazing some of those things that you do are. Well I had one of those realisation moments today. I’ve been nursing LP so long now that it is second nature and I often forget how powerful our magic milk [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, tagged childrens-books, topsy and tim on 11 March, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Littlepixie has a new favourite in the world of books, Topsy & Tim. They are published by Ladybird and are basically just little stories detailing the lives of two twins, Topsy & Tim. LP has recently become fascinated with Ladybird books and our library has dozens of them, including about 10 T&T books, which we [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Children, Family, General Musings, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, crafts, tagged dolls, play, play-kitchen, playroom, toys, wooden-kitchen on 9 March, 2009 | 18 Comments »
I freely admit that I am often dazzled by the amazing playrooms that many mommy bloggers have. Waldorfian paradises with the most exquisite wooden furniture and play things. I don’t know quite how they manage it!
I tell myself that many of them have several children, so they may have built up the collection of beautiful [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Babywearing, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, Toddler, crafts, tagged etsy, wooden-toys on 20 February, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Look who arrived in my latest care package from Jumbleberryland, an adorable wooden mama carrying her baby on her back (it’s quite funny, she looks a little like me too)! It’s from Woodmouse loves wood, don’t ya just love Etsy?
Oh and there were Ginger-O biscuits too, and chocolate, nom nom nom, mustn’t type with my [...]
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It’s a situation that I’m sure most, if not all, parents have found themselves in, the moment where you stand there unsure if you are going to laugh or cry while chaos erupts around you.
Yesterday evening was one such evening…. Let me set the scene for you. There are a few main players:
-> Littlepixie (of [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, Food & Drink, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, Vegan, Vegan Cooking, Vegetarian on 17 February, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Basically what the title says! If it looks like bread then all the better, I’m thinking of veggie pancakes and the suchlike!
I have run out of food ideas for my choosy Littlepixie My sweetie-pie is going through an extended carb-loving phase, she would happily live on garlic potatoes and toast. Actually, she devours [...]
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