Where Have the Last Ten Months Gone?

Today our wee pop is ten months old. I am still thinking about the passing of the nine-months mark, and suddenly another month has passed. Those first few weeks seem to last for ever in a fog of sleep deprivation and lack of any real structure to the day. But now, although the days are […]

Sunday Pieday

Last week I bought some fresh cranberries at the vege market. This weekend they needed finishing off – though I am already planning all the yummy things I can do with them over the winter, and plan to buy a few more bags this coming week and store some in the freezer… and of course […]

Not Working Seems To Be Working…

…for now anyway. After reading my lovely friend Mandy’s comment on yesterday’s post, I have spent some time today reflecting on things I have put out into the blogosphere in the past year, and musing on how not working feels now, after more than 18mths of the habit. I have been inspired by, and feel […]

Monkeys

A theme has arisen in our house. It seems that we have become rather obsessed with Monkeys. When I first met Akira he was toting about notes from a Psychologist called Richard Byrne, from a book called The Thinking Ape and primates have become part of our vernacular since then. So it was not surprising […]

Leaves

I am obsessed this week with the amazing leaves in our neighbourhood… can’t get enough of tromping through them when we go out for a walk, totally fascinated with the never-ending clean-up job in people’s yards, utterly intrigued by the big trucks and sucky-blowy machinery that the council uses to collect them from the big […]

Helmet Free!

Well, it has taken me a while to get round to this – but I wanted to give a FINAL update on the helmet – it is all over! We are still somewhat skeptical that it made any difference, or was really all that necessary. But the fact remains that in the three months or […]

Out and About in the Sun

This morning, the sun streamed through our windows, the baby woke at dawn, it was cool and crisp outside, and this is how the neighbourhood was looking: We busied about getting ready to enjoy the day… coffee, cereal, showers, rugging up for the cool outdoors… and then Akira biked off to work. Kazuo and I […]

Sleep Sack

The weather has definitely turned. Kazuo is also getting much bigger and the lovely cool cotton sleeping bags my mother made him for the summer were just not keeping him warm, nor were they giving him the room he needed. We turned on the heating in the interim, especially since my sewing machine chose this […]

Helmet Progress

Two months ago we had Kazuo fitted for a Plagiocephaly Helmet to help correct the flat spot that had developed as a result of a neck condition called Congenital Muscular Torticollis. On the first day of the helmet, he was a bit bemused by the whole experience: …but he adjusted really quickly and soon the […]

Balloons…

This past weekend I felt very much like a slow learner. It seems that babies, crowds, and even the best-laid plans just do not mix. Perhaps one day I will button down and accept these immutable laws. I had thought we were doing rather well, we NEVER leave the house after 6pm these days, and […]