Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babywearing, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, tagged doll-sling, hatchling, mama-speaks, slings on 16 June, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Have a look at what Mr. Postman brought for littlepixie last week, a beautiful Nest hatchling sling so she can carry her dollies/bears around. I entered a giveaway a few months ago at Mama Speaks, and won, but my poor little hatchling got lost in the post
Ashlee of Nest Baby Slings and Mama [...]
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Posted in Children, Family, General Musings, Ireland, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, tagged educate-together, moving, moving-house, school on 15 June, 2008 | 8 Comments »
We’re moving house. hopefully very soon!
Mr. HPP’s job moved to a village just outside the city, resulting in a very long bike commute for him. It’s not too bad now with all the general pleasantness of cycling in summer, but in the winter, brrrr… He cycles along the coast road which even now has a [...]
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Picture this. Two socks, in a laundry basket. Happy. Making plans. One sock wants to see the world. She whispers about the exciting adventures she will have to her staid mate. He doesn’t want to travel. He will stay here. Safe. He will wait for her, no matter how long, no matter what happens. It’s [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Babywearing, Breastfeeding, Children, Co-Sleeping, Family, General Musings, Green Living, Ireland, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, Vegan, tagged blogstuff, housekeeping on 5 June, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Today I’ve been inspired by Danielle at New Mommy Rant to continue my virtual housekeeping. I checked for and repaired deadlinks 2 weeks ago so they should be grand, I still have to divide my blogroll into easier-to-manage sections, I have a few new blogs to add to it. I had a look at other [...]
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Posted in Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, baby signing, tagged animals, books, childrens-books, reading on 5 June, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I have an online shopping problem, you all know that. Here are the latest fruits of my shopping labours… two new books for Littlepixie, ah selfless guilt-free shopping, the best kind!
The two books are “I am a Little monkey” and “I am a little elephant” both by Francois Crozat.
Littlepixie loves monkeys and elephants and [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babies, Babywearing, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, tagged baby-carriers, mei-tai, Sling, taitasi, tettitett on 27 May, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Steph over at Adventures in Babywearing is hosting a little mini-carnival to let everyone share their slings! Littlepixie is getting heavy and prefers to run around now so I don’t use mine as much as I used to but here is a peek at them… each is well-loved and has served us well!
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Babywearing, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, tagged breast feeding on 26 May, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Littlepixie has started carrying her dolly around in a homemade sling, she holds dolly against her chest and I tie a muslin cloth around them.
Then Littlepixie walks around patting dolly’s head and singing to her. After a while they sit in the pirate ship and LP lowers dolly’s head down a bit so she can [...]
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Posted in Babies, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, General Musings, Ireland, Lactivism, Milk Bank, Mothering, Parenting, Pregnancy, SAHM, Toddler, health, tagged breast feeding, human-milk-bank, human-milk-donation, lactation, Necrotizing-Enterocolitis, preemies, premature-babies on 24 May, 2008 | No Comments »
The human milk bank in Fermanagh urgently needs more donors, especially from the Republic of Ireland. You may recall that my first post was about our milk bank.
Well, yesterday Tanya Cassidy left a comment on that post sharing her experience of receiving donor milk for her second premature son after sadly losing her first son [...]
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Posted in Attachment Parenting, Breastfeeding, Children, Family, Mothering, Parenting, SAHM, Toddler, Vegan, health, tagged complain, extended-breastfeeding on 20 May, 2008 | 10 Comments »
Allow me to indulge myself, if only for a moment, and moan a bit. I’m doing it here because there are two responses everyone else gives me and I’m not in the mood for them, you can probably guess the responses before I share the problems, the responses are… drumroll please….
1. Give up the whole [...]
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Littlepixie’s 5th tooth broke through yesterday, another top front one. If she follows her previous patterns, another one may arrive within the next two weeks, or not, who knows!
She’s feeding non-stop these days and all through the night, I noticed on Saturday evening that her saliva was starting to feel a little acidic and [...]
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