Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babywearing, Children, Family, Holidays, Mothering, Parenting, Toddler, Travel, Vegan, tagged baby-carriers, Dublin, eastercon, london, mei-tai, orbital2008, p-con on 17 March, 2008 | 6 Comments »
It’s almost time for the Halfpintpixie family trip to London, which has been dubbed the Sci-Fi ExtraVEGANza by Mr. HPP.
Sci-Fi : Because we’re going to Orbital 2008 (Eastercon) in Heathrow and then P-Con in Dublin.
ExtraVEGANza : Wikipedia defines an extravaganza as “an elaborate, spectacular, and expensive theatrical production”. Add in a dash of Vegan to [...]
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Three weeks ago I found what I thought was a plugged milk duct, it felt like a little pea but it wasn’t sore like they (plugged ducts, not peas) usually are.
So I set about a routine of massage, massage and more massage. It didn’t go away, nor did it get worse, so I decided to [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Children, Co-Sleeping, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, baby signing, tagged breakfast, family-bed on 12 March, 2008 | 8 Comments »
We have a little morning ritual here in the HPP household. Littlepixie usually stands up in the bed ready for the day around 06:00. Mr. HPP hops out of bed and turns on the light, the sheer excitment of the light being on usually buys us another half hour in bed as littlepixie runs around [...]
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Bits of Myself listed her 32 flavours, and got me thinking “what are mine?”. A lot of hers were from Walt Disney World, a favourite haunt of mine (occasional, because it’s so far away!), which inspired me to list my 32 flavours with a holiday twist (because it’s nearly my holidays!)…
So here they are, in [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, SAHM, Toddler, tagged magazines, pay-it-forward on 11 March, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I received an exciting package in the mail yesterday from the lovely Isil at Veggieway. It contained my PIF gift which was a beautiful hand cranked music box which plays “Imagine”. Littlepixie adores it, I spent ages yesterday winding it around so she could listen to it and hum along ever so melodiously!
The package also [...]
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I don’t know about all of you, but we seem to own about 100 biros, most of which are currently lost. While staying in the YHA in Wellington many, many moons ago, I happened upon a very clever way of making pens that little bit more loss-proof. They had all the pens attached to big, [...]
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Posted in Environment, Family, Food & Drink, Green Living, Vegan, Vegetarian, tagged food, food-waste, composting, love food hate waste, waste, household on 7 March, 2008 | 14 Comments »
We’re lucky in Galway, our city council operates a composterie (there’s that word again!) and every fortnight the contents of our brown bin get whisked away to start their new life as wormfood. Which brings me seamlessly to my point, our brown bin has too much waste in it.
It’s mostly my fault, I get notions [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Babywearing, Breastfeeding, Children, Cloth-Nappies, Co-Sleeping, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, Vegan, Vegetarian, tagged baby-carriers, bookcrossing, family-bed, mei-tai, sleep on 6 March, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Time for a random braindump, methinks. Hopefully something here might interest everyone, or everything here might interest someone, or nothing here might interest anyone, who knows! Ok so, get a nice cup of tea, and start reading…
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There seems to be lots of generous folks out there at the moment. Here is a little round-up of the giveaways on some of my favourite blogs (in order of entry dates):
If you are looking for a new ring sling, pop over to Adventures in Babywearing where you could be the lucky winner of a [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, SAHM, Toddler, tagged bras, nursing, nursing-bra on 5 March, 2008 | 13 Comments »
I just just received the most beautiful bra in the post today. It’s black lace, lined with teal cotton, it’s soft, it’s gorgeous and it’s a nursing bra! Nice nursing bras do exist and I will tell you where to find them!
But first, let’s begin at the beginning….
When you’re pregnant, around 38 weeks, you should [...]
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