Today I woke up exhausted. For some reason I couldn't sleep last night as I was feeling sick and miserable. The same night both of the girls slept really well for a long time and Billie and I had the bed to ourselves, since Josh worked nightshift. Typical. Josh hadn't even come home from work [...]
Category: Everyday Stuff
SWIMMING LESSONS 4.0
Okay, I have earlier mentioned our incredible ability to talk around this house. Talk about things we'll like to do, places we'll like to go and classes we'll like to send our girls to. Swimming lessons have been the subject of one of those repetitive talks lately. But then, last week we finally turned talk [...]
TODAY I LOST IT
Half an hour ago I had one of my least proud moments in my ongoing career as a mum. I yelled at Abby. I yelled at her because she wouldn't listen to me. I yelled at her, because she challenged what I said. I yelled at her because she did something very, very natural for [...]
One Of Those Mornings – Following One Of Those Nights
Confession time: all I was thinking about this morning was to get my children out of the house, to preschool, and I did not spare no effort to get them there. Or well, I kinda did. I cut all the corners I possibly could to achieve my goal of the morning, actually. I did not brush their [...]
How Small Changes Can Make a Huge Difference
All children are different. Even my children are different. So figuring out and satisfying their individual needs really is a question of observing, analyzing, adjusting, modifying, experimenting, and occasionally just going with the flow. So yeah, sometimes parenting really makes me feel extremely exhausted and lost even to the point where I just want to throw [...]
A BIT OF HUMPDAY DREAMING
Today is a pretty average Wednesday in the Dalsgaard-McMahon household. Josh is at uni and Abby is in pre-school all day. That means I have a whole day alone with Billie, which again means more time to focus on her needs and more opportunity to give her attention and kisses, since there is no threenager [...]
10 RANDOMS ABOUT ME
There is this little game over on Instagram where people post 20 random facts about themselves to let their followers get to know the human behind the pretty little squares. I have been tagged in this game a couple of times, but I have not yet shared any facts let alone 20. However, I actually do [...]
