New Year

It seems a little silly to be recording my New Year’s Resolutions now, in February… But so far 2010 has kinda caught me by surprise and for a number of reasons, I have gotten off to a very slow start. So here I am, bearing in mind that it is also the start of a […]

Clothes Swap

What is the best way to round off a wintry weekend at the end of January? Swapping clothes with a dozen other women of excellent taste! This weekend Julia opened her home and her rumpus room to a Clothes Swap Party. The idea is simple and sociable. Invite a group of your friends to come […]

Celebration

Things are happening rather fast around here suddenly. Two weeks ago we celebrated Kazuo’s first birthday, and as I already mentioned, we’d all been rather ill with a gastric flu, so we postponed the party for a week so he could properly recover. So the actual day was spent just with Mama and Dada and […]

Birthday Party Preparations

It’s party time at ours in a few hours. Enjoying the calm before the storm! Here is the cake – spicy pumpkin chocolate chip with cream cheese icing. Here is the happy little birthday boy – before he gets totally overwhelmed by everyone, and overloaded with sugar. Out for a walk now to clear our […]

A Whole Year of Family Life

This coming weekend we are finally celebrating Kazuo’s first birthday. After eventually ridding our house of the dreaded lurgy, that lingered around far too long for my liking, we are now ready to re-enter social circulation. I think it will really be a party for me… since I have only had three social encounters with […]

Holiday Highlights

When I last posted here, I had no idea how much of a toll the month ahead was going to take on me – both physically and emotionally. We have had a lovely holiday, and I hope you have too – but there have been some definite challenges. I had anticipated a few dramas as […]

Home Alone

It has taken me a good week to get enough perspective on this event to be able to muse about it publicly. With the winter weather well and truly set in for the duration (it was -11C last week and -7C today, with ice on the INSIDE of our feeble windows both mornings), we have […]

London Bound

I have had a week off. Whew! Largely due to Kazuo coming down with his first big nasty cold, so I’ve had a clingy little guy who isn’t sleeping much (breathing badly and teething at the same time – poor blighter!). But we have had some lovely days at home just practising all the new […]

I Did It!

In case you missed it, (though with such relentless output from me, how could you not notice?), November was National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo) for me. I joined up a month ago and I pledged to post religiously all month. So I saturated the blogosphere with my inanity. Sorry. A month on, what have I […]

Knitting Progress

A few weeks ago I met a lovely woman at my new favourite mother-meeting spot – Winslow’s Home, which seems to be a great place to bump into other people who like homely little stores and coffee with their babies. It was a lovely sunny day, so we were all sitting outside, I was entertaining […]