Heidi's Hideaway (now with added class!)
Posted in Big Bad Mummy on Nov 24th, 2008
Note: Something is funky about my blog layout at the moment. Dunno why – will have to ask my hallowed webmaster!
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Tonight my parents are whisking Ciaran off for a visit to his great-grandparents, my maternal grandparents. They’ve had a lot of health struggles this year and have been moved into a retirement home, so despite [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 21st, 2008
Not being the raging hot center of the online political blogiverse (bloggiverse?), I haven’t felt like sticking my neck out there for political discussions over the last few months. Yes, I’m uber-liberal, pro-choice, pro-gay-marriage/civil partnership/whatever equal legal rights terminology you want to use…but everyone already knows that! Discussing the election is a lot [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 20th, 2008
A lengthy entry – this is the response I made to someone on my INFJ mailing list who was discussing weight issues. The bold lines are my original comments, the italicized are his, and then the lines in regular type are my response.
It’s a lost cause arguing this with most people but I guess I [...]
Posted in Big Bad Mummy on Nov 19th, 2008
Sometimes I wonder if I just had a really screwed up vision of motherhood…if I just was a bad mother, period, and that someone else would have done better with Ciaran in those early newborn days.
Then I read posts like this and think…maybe it wasn’t just me being a massive failure:
I’m a stay at home [...]
Posted in Big Bad Mummy, Everyday on Nov 18th, 2008
Inspired by Roly, I picked up a peppermint mocha at Starbucks. Of course, thanks to the joys of being the mother of a toddler with an upset stomach in the middle of the night, I stood by the barista for three or four minutes before remembering that no, I had to place the order [...]
Posted in Everyday on Nov 17th, 2008
My iTouch displayed signs of prescience this morning when the first song that started after I hit “shuffle” was that Bangles classic, “Manic Monday.” It’s been the sort of Monday that picks you up, knocks you down, uses you to wipe its shoes, then tosses you on the street…and it isn’t even noon yet! [...]
Seen many places, tagged by M. of Diapers and Dragons.
A – Available: Not unless you’re Graham.
B – Best friend: Currently? No one who’s a live-close, go-to-a-movie-and-chat sort of person at the moment. Childhood best friend? Vicki. Best friend that I actually can share just about everything with (other than my [...]
Posted in Big Bad Mummy on Nov 11th, 2008
My political leanings are no secret, although I cannot say I voted for Barack Obama this year with unreserved enthusiasm. In any case, the subject title actually refers to my toddler, who is a political prodigy. We had a conversation this weekend that went something like this.
Ciaran & Mummy, singing: “Bob the [...]
Posted in Big Bad Mummy on Nov 6th, 2008
Give me a toddler over a newborn any day. People who think newborns are the end-all and be-all of baby-dom are, I suspect, the ones who either haven’t had a baby or who didn’t have high-needs babies. I have nothing against those of you for whom that is the case – I simply [...]
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