Archive for March, 2010

I Need To Have A Good Whinge

First of all, let me once again note that my son is an awesome sleeper at night.  He goes down with minimal fuss and sleeps more or less through the night now, at nearly 10 months of age. But naps. Oy!  You would think he is expecting a call from President Obama the way he [...]

March 31, 2010   Posted in: Adam, Being a Mummy, Family  2 Comments

So…My Own Business…

My maternity leave is rapidly coming to a close.  I am in the last 3 months, which means no pay, and time to make a decision regarding my job. I was pretty certain I didn’t want to go back full time.  I would then just be working to pay someone else to look after my [...]

March 27, 2010   Posted in: Designed To A Tee  3 Comments

So Simon is Out Of Town On Business

he is ‘staying in college’ at Cambridge and his rooms are ‘dead posh’. My day so far? 4 am dummy cry 430 sounds of shuffling 445 come get me mummy 446 in bed with me 500 no no no I want up up up 515 MASSIVE Poo.  Teething is fun! 530 back to sleep, Adam, [...]

March 22, 2010   Posted in: Adam, Being a Mummy, Simon  One Comment

Back On Weight Watchers

As the title says, I am following Weight Watchers again.  Not going to meetings, just online. You see, when I did the program online about 8 or 9 years ago I was very successful at it.  I lost a ton of weight.  And then it started creeping back on so I started to go to [...]

March 18, 2010  Tags:   Posted in: Eating Plan, me  6 Comments

My Day/Night Off

was awesome! Highlights: – Realizing on the way to the airport that I had never tested the phone number I had put into my mobile for one of my friends.  So I sent her a text from the taxi.  I had the number right! Almost getting on the wrong plane because they said what door [...]

March 17, 2010   Posted in: Being a Mummy, daily, me  No Comments

My Time Off

So this Sunday around 1245 I board a plane bound for Manchester England. Once there I will be meeting up with 8 very good friends of mine. Its our night off. I know these women from the internet. We are all over 40. We all have small children. We started planning this before Christmas.  We [...]

March 12, 2010   Posted in: Being a Mummy  2 Comments

Letter To My Son – Adam – 9 Months Old

Dear Adam 9 months today! This month we have learned to sit up when someone puts us on our bottom: – and cut our two top front teeth, although there is no picture because its very hard to get you to show anyone! We have also learned that you will be having The Lump removed [...]

March 11, 2010   Posted in: Adam, Letters  No Comments

As Much As I Admire Charles Darwin

the way my nights are going right now disproves his theory of survival of the fittest. Let’s go back millions of years.  There is a little cave family, Urg, the male, Arg, the female and Blargh, their baby.  Blargh is about 9 months old and had been sleeping great.  Then one night he wakes with [...]

March 7, 2010   Posted in: Adam  No Comments

Another Worry Off My Mind

So Adam is thisclose to being to big for his Stage 0 car seat. We don’t, of course, have a car.  Part of the reason we have the car seat we do is because it can fit into any car using the 3 point regular seat belt.  This was proven very successfully while we were [...]

March 6, 2010   Posted in: Adam  No Comments

Continuity…

When Adam was born and my step dad and mom were here he remarked how interesting he found it that all the old songs come back up as soon as there is a baby in the house.  Twinkle Twinkle.  This Old Man. And so on. I was thinking about that again the other day.  How [...]

March 4, 2010   Posted in: Adam  No Comments