Category Archives: cosleeping

weaning immanent?

Tonight is the fifth night in a row the Bird went to sleep without her num-a-num. It’s the third night I actually put her to bed myself. (!) Yesterday there was no nursing from wake up until the wee hours this morning. Today so far there was only one quick attempt, when she latched on [...]

midnight molly twitter

I am never, ever going to wash my bathtub. Molly has created a beautiful Early Toddlerhood Abstract Expressionist piece that is so pretty. Her medium of choice is bath markers. She’s in a period of using oranges and blues together and somehow they aren’t mixing but are maintaining their respective hue integrity and it. is. [...]

interesting: nasal congestion

…is the leading cause of undereye circles. The culprit isn’t, as I believed until 30 seconds ago, nursing a toddler. I’m not super vain, but I like to be on my prettier scale when there’s a lot of visiting and photo snapping happening. This means that I have been plastering makeup under my eyes the past few days. [...]

how much of our parenting style comes from our parents?

I just found Girl’s Gone Child- she has a post recalling that her earliest memories are of nightmares. She says she remembers waiting in her bed for her mom or dad to scoop her up and put her in between them, safe and cozy in their bed. She writes, then, about her little one crying for her from his [...]

about last night…

Ah. I’ve finished at-home job, after finishing away-from-home job, coming home, downing a rum and cola, and deciding that by virtue of cocktails the at-home job is by far superior. I now have a few moments to myself before I go fetch the banshee.
What in the name of Bob/FSM/Goddess/JesusGodAllMighty is wrong with my Boue? She [...]

dear roxy,

OK girl, um how can you be sitting here reading Green Options Blog whilst scarfing down a McDonald’s bagel and cinnamon melt? Are you a fragmented personality? An environmental wannabe who cries about the recycling from her party getting thrown in with the trash who has an alter ego too damn lazy to get the [...]