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Squishy

She sits up in bed at some ungodly hour and musters all her self-control to stop crying. “Mummy,” she hiccups, “let me explain why I have to have booboo to get back to sleep.” “Okay.” I’m a bit...

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Nothing compares

It’s been thirteen hours and seventeen daysSince they took the hour away from meI go out every night from my bed to yours when you call me at 5am or beforeAnd now you’ve messed up my Sinead O’Connor...

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Code

I had Mabel’s parent-teacher conference yesterday. I was pretty sure there wouldn’t be much of import to say, but thought I’d better go along anyway just to make sure they didn’t need to tell me she...

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"You’re still WHAT?"

You* are not the only person in the world nursing a three-year-old. I am not the only person in the world nursing a four-year-old. If you think you are, or I am, that’s because we’re just not talking...

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Milestones, tangentially

I am solo-parenting right now because B is at a conference in Denver. The night before he left, bedtime was horrible and went on for hours, and I was a bit worried about the state of my sanity if...

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Four point five cake

Saturday was Mabel’s four-and-a-halfth birthday. I like to make a bit of a thing about half birthdays, because a year is a long time to wait, and also Cake, any excuse for; and because sometimes I can...

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The momentous and the mundane

Oh, dinner, how you tease me with your needing to be made, every single damn night, unless I was organized and made lots the night before, which works well with winter dinners like chilli and lasagne...

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The accidental extender

It’s World Breastfeeding Week (yay boobs!) and the Irish Parenting Bloggers, of which I am a proud member, are doing a blog march in its honour. This is my contribution, and I’ll add links to everyone...

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Listen (again)

This post was first published in September 2011, when Dash was five and Mabel was two years and ten months. I’m wheeling it out again as my contribution to the Irish Parenting Bloggers’ blog march for...

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By contract II

I suppose I should mention this: I’m no longer a nursing mother. If you’re new around here you might not be surprised by that – after all, for most mothers whose youngest is five years old,...

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