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cushions!
We've had a difficult couple of weeks. My mood remains unstable a lot of the time. Good, happy days still happen, but the bad days are so bloody awful that I just feel like a monster. Oh well. We're trying our best to deal with it as a family ( Read more... ) -
late Xmas ketchup
Now that River's 3 we thought we should be starting some holiday traditions. We already have the old advent calendar (this one) and the Buying Of The Tree. But we wanted more! ( Read more... ) -
food fun
Willow has started the baby-led weaning journey. So far she's tried roast lamb, boiled ham, broccoli, naan bread, satsuma, pineapple, fried apple, pear, yoghurt, passionfruit, banana, cucumber, carrot, mash, various pasta meals, curry, drop scones, and lots more. She's being very adventurous and enthusiasic about the whole thing. It's great to see ( Read more... ) -
me
A short entry about me, because it is my journal after all ( Read more... ) -
pox and pie
Where were we ( Read more... ) -
new year
River came down with chicken pox on January 1st. Willow started with it on the 14th. I'm having a colonoscopy tomorrow ( Read more... ) -
my girls!
Oh dear. So much for weekly updates! Well, last time I posted I mentioned that River had croup. I then caught her throat infection and felt really grotty for a couple of weeks. And then life overtook us. Again ( Read more... ) -
really big potato
The first few months of Willow's life have been a huge contrast with River's early weeks. No pain, no despair, no isolation, no borderline PND. It's been wonderful, in fact ( Read more... ) -
huge update, sorry
We had a golden summer this year. The heatwave, which seemed to oppress so many people on the mainland, just made our windswept island pleasantly warm and, sometimes, wonderfully hot. We spent hours on the beach and had many many picnics. Because we know we'll never have three months off all together again, we tried to do lots of family things: ( Read more... ) -
200 ornamental gourds is a lot of gourds
Matt and I spent a couple of hours looking through my LJ archive on Sunday night. We had a lovely time, remembering little unimportant events that we hadn't thought of for years. Life before children: simpler, easier, a little more self-absorbed. Recently it's felt as if our days are spent running triage. What's the next most urgent, overdue ( Read more... )