I got unjustifiably angry with the three-year-old yesterday morning and have some reflections. The situation arose from the two of us following separate but equally unmovable agendas – I, getting…
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Tag: life with small children
The boys have continued their tag-teaming efforts to keep us up at night: when it’s not one of them screaming his head off it’s the other. I can’t remember when…
Some funny conversations with the 3-year-old: He: Äiti, I have a game for you!Me: Oh really, what is it?He: I don’t know. It might be a clock? Cal: Okay, it’s…
One recent epiphany I had while mulling over where my time goes was that I could do more with my mornings. I was staying up late, not doing anything particularly…
My older son turned three at the end of the year, and it was the first time his birthday felt like what you think of as a kid’s birthday with…
Every time I blink now the baby has made some kind of developmental leap. He’s grown into a strapping lad, even though his meals have started to get cut short…
Since having children I’ve changed my opinion on whether punctuality is a choice. Before: yes. Now: yes but really no. I read a post on LinkedIn recently that illustrates the…
I’ve been pondering what I heard someone say on Instagram about parenting. She said you can only ever have one of these three (when your children are around, presumably): peace,…
Various close brushes with events of life-altering potential have made me reflect on cliché things like ‘what really matters’. I’m a bad one for obsessive introspection and trying to lead…
It turns out it’s not ‘happy wife, happy life’, but ‘happy baby, happy life’. The baby, who is now fully walking, has been in a brilliant mood for about a…