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Baby steps
For no real reason other than because, we made the short drive to our house the other day, walked in and up the stairs, trying to envisage the computer sketches…
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Spring into winter
Sitting on my mother-in-laws’ couch during one of those rare moments whence both boys sleep at the same time, I’d been watching through the window as a worker jumped nimbly…
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Speed Talking
As M ploughs into toddlerhood, barging out anyone who gets in his way, I find myself time and time again returning to a quote I read once at the beginning…
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Blurred vision
Juggling a baby and an overly enthusiastic toddler sibling makes taking photos of daily life an almost impossible task. But sometimes, in an unsuspecting moment, the half blurred potlucks with…
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Poppy-Seed Scones, or Over Again
T’s been ill this week with a chest infection in the weaker of his lungs, a perhaps lingering trigger from his birth. For two nights I slept with him perched…
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A puddle a day
Some kids are content to spend long days curled up with books and hot chocolate. For M, though coloured pencils and teddies in a cozy blanket fort while away hours,…
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I promise…
To cherish the seconds ESPECIALLY when minutes can seem like hours because months fly by unawares. Thank you for our everyday; I love you both deeper every nano.
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A Big Day
Yesterday was a big day round here. MKM made his first quiche from scratch and after he’d stirred up the filling, and rolled out the dough, and eaten his way…
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SOCS – Round Square
This morning as my husband and father-in-law played with my eldest downstairs and I planned for our Thursday trip to visit my family, I sat with hot coffee in my…
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Time and its tricks
M was slightly older than T now when we last made a visit to the UK. It boggles my mind to think that then he was still only crawling around…
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MKM: 2 years old
You’d think it would get old, you’d think that there could be nothing new to be gleamed from watching someone elses eyelashes twitch gently for the thousandth and one time.…
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Step into it
There was an ironic second just before G left us in the UK when we pondered how I would cope with both boys on my own. Although it’s been but…
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One sock on.
I sometimes feel like two different women are writing this blog. There’s the one who calmly happily relates how spring is putting a beat in her step, and then therez’s…
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Seven Months Smiling
Darling Tiny T, how is that you are seven months already? Making your way up staircases, climbing onto the sofa unaided. Whereas once you were silent, rarely letting forth a…
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Beautiful moments in a wonderful day
By lunchtime yesterday I was wishing it were nighttime so we could start all again in the morning but then later after M had fallen asleep over his pasta and…
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Fledglings
When people first asked me to describe Iznik and its’ surrounding area the closest I could get was of “a Turkish version of the British Lake District”. It was only…
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Playdoh & Pooh & Sticks
Besides hourly prayers for patience, empathy and earplugs, I have few tips on helping parents help toddlers through the mindfield which is their days. If I were to give any…
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