Parental Separation Anxiety
In 15 days I leave for Trinidad Carnival. This is something that I have wanted to do since I was 18 years old. And after many, many, many years of coming up with reasons to not go, I am finally going. I am beyond excited. I wake up thinking about it. I go to sleep [...]
Regression, especially when it comes to sleep, is a bad, bad thing
Mat is getting up every two hours again. His days of sleeping through the night are a distant memory. I tried to get him back on the sleep doula program but he is not having it. He doesn’t fight me when I put him down. He still goes to sleep like he did on the [...]
Mat’s Report Card
Mat got his report card last week too. Just because he just mastered walking and doesn’t really speak words right now doesn’t mean that the daycare won’t evaluate him. His report card was just as I expected. His teachers like him. He is a loving child that isn’t destructive or rambunctious. He likes to look [...]
Random Tuesday Thoughts: Things I know today that I didn’t know yesterday
DJ Cheesy is away this week. That means that Mat is the only boy is his class for the entire week. He’s the mack daddy! Maks calls his best friend P’s mom by her first name. I have no idea how he knows what he first name is because up until he told me what [...]
16 months and 6 days ago, I was scared
One of the joys* of pregnancy is the barrage of tests that you have to go through. Most of them are government regulated so you have to get them done even if you use a midwife. So for ten months, you become a human pincushion being bled at every appointment. One of the very first [...]
The death of my laptop
Baby has a slight obsession for things that can seriously harm him. He is forever scaling the couch to try and reach the blinds; he tries to climb the bookcase and has made numerous attempts to dive head first into the bathtub. But his most favourite thing to do is to play with electrical cords**. [...]
Cold Nights
Both boys inherited Millhouse’s allergy to blankets. Neither of them particularly likes to be covered when they sleep. They have some sort of sixth sense that tells them that fuzzy, warm fleece blankets have been placed over them and they promptly kick it off. This drives me crazy. It’s winter. It’s Canada. It gets cold [...]
Now and Then: The Christmas Decorating edition
There was a time in my life when I wasn’t a mother. It feels like it was lifetimes ago. But there was a time when I could be all wild and crazy and do silly things, like, pee without an audience or sleep in until 8am or not have to justify bath or bed times [...]