October 2008

Sleep deprivation, continued

Words seep out of my head, hanging, lost, in the dark hours as I lie awake in the small hours feeding my teething, poorly, un-sleep-trained baby. They never make it to the written form anymore. ************ I no longer count my sleep in how many unbroken hours I get but in how many extra fifteen [...]

Man ‘flu

My chest sports two deflated balloons, courtesy of my nursing, nursing, nursing baby who has baby man-’flu. The baby gets the cold first and then the rest of the household follows. This must surely be the worst bit of having a household full of men: when they get a cold, they are all practically dying [...]

Reacquainting myself with my manners

Tomorrow, because he had a urine infection, my six month old gets a tube shoved down his penis in order to have his kidneys and bladder x-rayed. I’m so looking forward to having to deal with that trip to the hospital. The way things are going round here, we’ll have visited every department in the [...]

Can’t wait, won’t wait

Despite the Indian summer we have been experiencing here the last couple of weeks, the blackberries in the field have been pretty poor. They looked like they would ripen nicely but in the end they didn’t amount to much. So with autumn around the corner I sent the boys out into the fields to pick [...]