December 2008

‘Twas the night before Christmas, baby

A very Happy Christmas to all my readers. And this is for my lovely friend Sophie who has gone into labor this morning with her fourth boy, ten days early. It was so what she was not hoping for, but Christmas presents don’t come much better than a tiny Christmas baby! (Not broody, honestly.) Although [...]

Sod’s law

The slippers get the worst of it. Every time he has a prolonged coughing fit, they end up covered in vomit, even when I am poised with a bowl trying to ensure the worst of it stays off his clothes or sleep-bag. My aching, arthritic feet make shoes off limits so I survey the slippers [...]

Christmas traditions will this year be mostly the twelve days of Christmas

It’s been a tiring week. Edward has been poorly for what seems like forever and would probably be better by now except that he seems to have picked up another virus – probably from our visit to the doctor’s office earlier in the week – and so I have had yet another sleepless week as [...]

The best way to lose pregnancy weight

The best way to lose pregnancy weight is, as we all know, to get a D ‘n V stomach bug. Which is mostly what I have been doing this week. Hello, I’m Ella and I’m an emetophobe. So it’s been fun. Not only that, but a good bout of gastroenteritis means I get to clean [...]