Parenting

I Am Furious: When Your Kid Gets Hurt At School

22.12.2011
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I know that kids and injuries go kind of hand in hand. Our kids are bound to hurt themselves once in a while and some kids more then others. If my kids are anything like me – if they have inherited the ‘clumsy’ gene from me then I really should just put them in bubble wrap now. [...]

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The Extraordinarily Ordinary

29.11.2011
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I wake up to the sound of my alarm clock. 6 o’clock. Up before the sun and before the quiet fades. My favourite time of the day. Alone with my thoughts. I hear the furnace rumble. Turning on at the programmed time. There is no other sound in the house. As close to quiet as [...]

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Stomach Flu and My Glamorous Life

25.11.2011
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Oh man has this been a week… First I guess if you noticed I have stopped posting daily. I was participating in the BlogHer NaBloPoMo and was doing pretty good making sure I posted something every day – even on the weekends. Then … life happened and the house (miraculously minus me) got struck down [...]

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5 Ways To Tell It’s Probably Time For a Break

01.11.2011
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There are times where I can get just so worn out. Being a work from home mom is hard work (just like any parenting) and the unique situation that WFHM’s have is that we don’t always ‘have’ to leave the house. We are with our kids all the time and for me, there are tell-tale [...]

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Wordless: And Then There Was One

21.09.2011
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Formula Companies, WHO Code and Breastfeeding

13.09.2011
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There has been a lot of attention recently about a popular website having ‘formula advertising’ on their website. A spark that came a breastfeeding advocate who removed her nomination from a competition to win money for charity due to a conflict in her advocacy and not wanting ‘blood money’ from a formula company. The ad in question [...]

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Found Princess R Upset & Crying…

13.09.2011
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A few days ago I was downstairs doing laundry and as I was walking back up the stairs I could hear a familiar sound. A faint cry coming from upstairs I could hear Princess R.  I could tell she was hurt but it sounded like something more then physical pain. I drop the laundry basket [...]

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What Did You Call Your Baby Bump?

08.09.2011
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Three years ago – my husband & I had two children, had just lost Triton and were now expecting a new babe. I remember very clearly going for our first ultrasound to make sure there was a babe and there was a heartbeat. 7 weeks.  There was. we were blissfully happy – scared but at [...]

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School’s Starting Soon – A Promise – & Purple Hair

02.09.2011
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The seasons are beginning to change and with that all us parents with kids school aged know that school is just around the corner (if your child has started school already you are in the thick of the chaos i’m sure).  For the Accustomed Chaos Family we will be entering the school year with TWO [...]

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