a family blog by Majeline
Our cat is missing. Our eldest cat, that is. We have two of them. Her name is Mis, Danish for cat, because that's how creative we are. We got her when Abby was one year old, and she really is part of our family now. She's a bit of a weirdo in the cat world. [...]
If only kids were IKEA furniture or LEGO figures. That would be amazing, huh? Not because I wish they were delivered on pallets (even if that would be convenient) or made out of colorful plastic - but because I wish they came with a manual. A good, easy to follow manual. A no BS manual, [...]
This past week has been a bit tuff around here. As I wrote in my last post I found out that I do have gestational diabetes and I have just been mentally and physically exhausted, to be honest. This lack of energetic surplus has made me feel like I've been a pretty shitty parent. I [...]
Actually, I was planning on writing a little weekly update with something about Josh being back at uni full-time and how we're trying to get into somekind of a normal daily/weekly routine. But instead I will focus more on the girls and them coping with huge emotions and major changes - and also tell you [...]
Wow! We did it! We moved to Brisbane - and we have no regrets. We do have a lot of work to do in terms of painting our entire(!) new home, unpacking, getting organized, finding a new preschool (which apparently is called kindy up here?!), new GP (doctor), new midwife, new gymnastics school, new swim [...]
Abby swears and I don't really care. Yup, that's fucking right, folks. I am not going to spend too much energy correcting her, so called, bad language. There is a balance, of course. Too much swearing sounds ugly even in my ears, but unless she turns into a trucker with a full grown beard or starts [...]
It's probably not why you think, though. Okay. Okay. Okay. I miiiiiiight get my proud mummy-face on every time she does something awesome, like hits the tennis ball perfectly with her little Wilson racket(it's so ridiculously cool that thing) or ride her skateboard like a baby pro. Even when she climbs the mountain side at [...]
