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 […]

Autumnal Weekends

This past month was an explosion of glorious colour in our neighbourhood and across St Louis. As I sit and reflect on the busy weekends we had over the past few weeks, I am thankful for the way that trees are such a dramatic part of the landscape here in the Lou. We have ventured […]

Walking the ‘Hood

This week we received our new Phil & Ted’s Metro Backpack in the post (well, not the new model we had ordered, but that is another story)… just in time. Kazuo has been rapidly expanding and so our evening walks around the neighbourhood in the witching hour between dinner and bedtime had been rather a […]

Farewell to the Television

Today we say goodbye to our cable contract. Yippee! Since I noticed Kazuo being attracted to the vivid and constantly changing images on the television, I have made a point of keeping it off whenever he is awake. And to be honest, I don’t turn it on during his nap times anyway. So really, the […]

Weekend of Wonderfulness

So this past weekend we went on a holiday to the Ozarks with some of our lovely St Louis friends. We stayed at a Camphill Community home in the countryside – an oasis of calm with baby chicks, hens that roost in trees, lots of perfectly mown pathways through the fields and a spacious and […]

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 […]

He Made It!

One week on and I can report that our new wee man is doing well. He made his entrance last Friday and has been making himself at home since. Since his arrival, it seemed that nothing about me was working anymore… though now I can see that things are starting to heal, and I am […]