a family blog by Majeline
Routines are everything once you have children, right? At least that is what you get told. Over and over again. I know I have been, at least - and then I have felt guilty that we suck at sticking to routines in our family. Then again, maybe we are doing alright - maybe we aren't [...]
It's back to reality around here. The University of Queensland is back on this week. Josh started on Monday and I am going there tomorrow - I only have to go once a week, every Thursday from 9am. - 6pm. Making a day of it, you know. We still haven't really figured out the logistics [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
