New Shoes

It is official. I no longer have a little baby. Our house has been invaded by a toddler! It seemed to happen overnight, though I guess it has been a while in coming. Yesterday, after Akira had spent the afternoon hauling a soft-baby-shoe-clad Kazuo out of the slush and dirt at the ice skating rink […]

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 […]

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 […]

Things to do instead of working…

One of my friends posted a photo album in Facebook with this title last week. She displayed all the amazing things she has been doing to avoid working on her English PhD dissertation. A master procrastinator myself, it made me realise that I left procrastination out of my musings on what people get up to […]

Eating Solidly

So yesterday Kazuo passed the five months mark and he is daily adding new skills or we are discovering entertaining little facets of his personality. The most recent development, initiated by his parents, has been the introduction of solids. Well… mush really… real solid food is sometime off. So we started on Sunday evening, but […]

Rainy Monday

So, after getting up at 5.30am with Kazuo this morning as he decided that was a good time to be awake, I discovered a grim, grey, rainy day that is set to be wet ALL day… how very English, and atypical for St Louis! So we drove Dada to work and then came home to […]

I am Back… I Hope…

Well, a few intense months have passed. And I think I may now be able to get into some kind of routine that means I can post here more often. We moved house… with a four month old baby, that felt like quite a feat, and I am in awe of the friends who have […]

Getting There

Where have the days gone? Our little guy has been with us for nearly 8 weeks now and it all seems to have passed in a blur. I look around me and see jobs piling up and wonder when I will ever have the energy or the time to get on with doing things that […]