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Daddys Home

Well Daddy came home today after a business trip and the Princess was overjoyed to see him. Let's hope he is around for a bit now.

How?

How did Kemal go and Orlaith stay? She brings nothing except her skinny legs to the house and Kemal really is a true character - madness!

She says she will walk today - I don't think so!!!!!

UPDATE: Ok, so I was wrong - she did go. Now who can win? Certainly not the scary stalker Craig (he freaked me out with his inappropriate touching of drunken Anthony - yuck!).

Good Advice

This is at Notting Hill station today - wise words!

Cool!

Tonight's The Night

Tonight I weigh in at Weightwatchers for the first time - I feel like I have lost a few pounds - lets hope the scales show the evidence.

After that I am off out for a curry!!!!!!!! That's the way to do it! I will be good though and be very moderate in my portions - the wine consumption is more of a worry as I will be with the other members of Whiteley Wives - nuff said!

I will attempt to be good.

Sick And Tired

Yes, after three months of good health, the Princess is sick AGAIN. This time it seems to be a tummy bug which has knocked her for six. After a frantic trip to the GP this morning, I feel slightly calmer as he reassured me that she would be fine. That poor man has seen me in tears too many times!!

Yesterday was a complete nightmare as she would not drink AT ALL. This was my main concern as I really don't want her to end up back in the hospital - anyway the genius that he is told me to try Lucozade sport - BINGO she knocked back two glasses of the stuff. Aahhhh I can sleep easier tonight (until she wakes me up that is).

The only other thing I have to say today is that I really take my hat off to single parents. L's Daddy has been very very busy at work and the extra pressure of dealing with a sick child on your own is no joke. I am so tired, not just with the whole day to day stuff but with all the worry of nursing my baby back to health. Going for a lie down now.

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Happy Birthday

This morning the princess' latest friend arrived into the world. He is another 'miracle' baby who we thought might never join us. His parents have been on a very long journey waiting for him and I hope that his arrival will bring them the happiness and fulfillment that L has given to us.

Happy Birthday little man!!!

Look Out Cornwall

We have booked a small holiday to Cornwall, and so this has encouraged me to join Marjorie Dawes and friends at Fat Fighters in an effort to regain something of my old body - wish me luck!

Being Me

Over the years, it seems our natural instinct for mothering has been lost. Maybe its because so many of us no longer live within an extended family, where skills and knowledge are passed from Mum to daughter. Maybe it’s because before we have kids, we think that knowing how to be a good mother and having the right answers just come naturally or from reading all the right books. But we soon learn better.

A lot is expected of mums today. Well-adjusted children don’t just happen. Developing their hearts and spirits must be the main thing, the central focus of our lives.

Well-adjusted, happy children come from families in which mothering is seen as a complex, beautiful challenge worthy of everything we can give to it. Mothering shapes lives and attitudes.

Freud describes the relationship of a young child to his mother as “unique, without parallel, established unalterably for a whole lifetime as the first and strongest love object and as the prototype of all later love relationships for both sexes.”

British psychiatrist John Bowlby states, “The young child’s hunger for his mother’s love and presence is as great as his hunger for food. Her absence inevitably generates a powerful sense of loss and anger.” Young children desperately need the emotional accessibility of a parent. That stability forms the foundation for all relationships to come.

So my point is…. That is why I am so exhausted. I am doing this (the hardest job that I have ever had) to the max. I am truly loving every minute of my day with the Princess as we learn so many things together. Only today we experienced so many new things.

1. she learnt a new body part (elbow if you are interested)
2. she played in sand for the first time
3. she crawled along a balance beam
4. she painted with a brush
5. she learnt to say baa (what sheep ‘say’)
6. she got a new tooth!!!!!!

I hope that I am doing a good job with my baby girl. I think I am! After all she is happy, smiley and bright as a button.

And that’s why I am a Stay At Home Mum!!!!!

Derek or Science To WIn

You Get Me?

ICE ICE Baby

"In case of Emergency ( ICE ).

The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone

address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would

want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency".

In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able

to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact

them. It's so simple that everyone can do it. Please do.

Please will you also email this to everybody in your address book, it

won't take too many 'forwards' before everybody will know about this. It

really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest.

For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.

Sunshine

I have mostly been enjoying the sun and chilling out to the sounds of Jack Johnson. I love summer!

A Gap In The Market?

I am an avid reader. Anything will do, even the back of a cereal packet I just love to read. I no longer seem to be able to read a book though, as I am usually so tired at the end of the day that I only manage a page and therefore the average book would take me about a year to read. I therefore get my 'word fix' from newspapers and magazines as I can pick them up when I have 5 minutes spare. It seems to me though that a whole section of the population is missed in the huge magazine industry. I love to read about babies/toddlers and articles related to my strange new life as a stay at home mum (SAHM) but the stuff just isn't out there. There are several Mother and Baby magazines available which are a little too twee for my tastes and cover just the standard pregnancy/first year FAQs and there is the excellent JUNIOR which is great but is very desinger fashion based and is also very much centred on London living (a whole 16 pages devoted to just London).

Surely I am not so unual in that I am a SAHM who is interested in more than just articles which suggest painting your toenails as a way of cheering yourself up or giving you the top ten buys at Mothercare.

In America a new magazine (see here) is just about to hit the newstands which looks interesting, why can't we have something similar. Are you listening out there? I am sure this is a missed opportunity for someone.

Things I Said That I Would Never Do

Buy jars of baby food ( I was going to make ALL of my own)

Let my baby eat something in the supermarket that I hadn't yet paid for

Let my baby watch ANY tv in the first year

Let her crawl in a public place

Buy too many toys

Buy ridiculous amounts of clothes

Let her sleep with the same teddy every night

Talk abut babies/baby stuff constantly

Let myself get fat

Let anything non-nutritious pass her lips

The list goes on and on and on............

and of course I have managed to break every rule on the list in the first year- well done me!

What I have learnt is that you can't learn anything at all from a book as every single baby/toddler is completely different and if you try to follow the 'norm' it will drive you just a little bit crazy.

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Saw this on Ben's blog. Bit surprised how mild I am!!!!!!