I’m all about DVDs for Riley because I prefer them to TV and generally she finds them more engaging and more interactive than TV as well. The thing is though, they do tend to be for a slightly older audience and so I struggle to find anything that she doesn’t label as ‘scary’ and then reject even in the non-scary parts because she knows at some stage it will be ‘scary’. And scary for her can be just a tone of voice.
We were given a preview of these titles, due …

I was exhausted when I got home tonight, so it was gorgeous to see this face greeting me when I walked in the door. I had about enough energy to take this photo, change into some pyjamas and crash on the bed for an hour or so before I came to.

We nearly made it. We came so very, very close. We nearly escaped from it.
It’s the last day of Winter and we nearly got through all of Winter illness-free. Sure I had a couple of colds in there, but nothing that took hold, and Riley was thankfully well for the whole season. Until now. I’ve been feeling like I”m on the edge of a flu for a couple of days. And I came home tonight to a very tired, slightly snuffly little munster who had a slight temperature.
I’d love …

This week is the week that I’m working full days in the office for the first three days. All as part of my handover. And while I don’t mind the hours or the long days (hello 2 and a half hour commute each way), I do mind what I’m missing out on when I’m not home.
I miss my baby. I’m gone before she wakes up and home just before she goes to bed. And while my pregnant self is relieved that she’s going through a patch of sleeping on her …

The body is weak. Very weak.
This week I figured (in all of my wisdom) that as I wasn’t wracked with morning sickness I should get moving again and actually do something akin to exercise or possibly risk actually becoming part of the couch.
Exercise involved step-ups (at home), yoga (at a new class) and packing boxes/stripping skirting boards (an awful yet effective type of exercise). It’s fair to say, my body and my barely existent muscles are screaming in pain today.Although I do enjoy my happy endorphins, pain or no pain. …

I finally bit the bullet and sent off my MacBook to get repaired. It wasn’t a major issue – the keypad isn’t working properly – but I’d found a way around it with the settings. Still, it’s under warranty so I might as well get it fixed while I can.
I already miss it. I’m writing this while sitting at my computer desk. How archaic. I’d say this will severely inhibit my TV watching. Or my blogging. Not sure which. Most of my weekend was spent backing up the MacBook because …

After three days of the princess/fairy costume I could see that this phase wasn’t going away anytime soon. If you can’t beat them, join them. So I went out and bought a second dress that Riley thought of as a ‘princess dress’, just for the sake of variety.
And I’m beginning to wonder about the kind of messages I give her during this phase. Overthinking? Quite possibly, that’s like my job. But I worry about describing princesses in a purely physical way ‘pretty’, or the idea that princesses only wear …

I’ll be regularly posting over at Super Parents on the Ministry of Discipline which is all about discipline which focuses on loving, nurturing and teaching as opposed to punishment. You can check it out here: 10 Things I Won’t Discipline.

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