Dad is at home full time at the moment, I am working three days a week, yet somehow there are still not enough waking hours to do all we would like to do and get done all we would like to get done. Hardly our little girl’s fault…but where can we sheet home the blame??!!!
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My current definition of wistfulness…
Wouldn’t it be nice to have every summer off… As I walked my daughter in the pushchair to the park today, in glorious sunshine, I suddenly realised the last time I hadn’t worked a summer was 1988.
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My other half suggested to his Mum late one evening on the phone that she might like to pop over the Tasman again to see her only grand daughter as we weren’t planning to head home for a visit until late January. Who wants the first flight with a baby to coincide with Christmas airport madness? She…
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Public holidays…if only they applied for babies too!
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Pushing the pushchair for 45 minutes in the beating sun, only to find out you were doing so when the day hit a high of 32 degrees C (90 degrees Fahrenheit). Result: one grumpy baby and one sweaty mum have agreed not to go out in the heat of the day again!
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Little miss latches on perfectly apart from the fact that I have not yet even started to expose the milk apparatus. If I am hungry it should be ready – what’s the story!!
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…only twice have we tried to watch a DVD during the day on the weekend, and lo and behold twice little miss normally I nap ok decided she wanted to be little miss cranky pants instead! If I have to go to bed you can’t watch TV is what I imagine she is thinking. An hour and a…
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…a scratch on your face one day that is gone the next. Oh for a baby’s skin!
Read MoreMy current definition of repeat…
…every time I make a hot drink the baby wakes up for a feed. Will I ever have a non-reheated drink again?!
Read MoreMy revised definition of irony…
…a baby that is already sleeping well through the night, and no family in the country to babysit so that Mum & Dad can sneak out! Previous definition
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