Category: Rants
Posted on May 6, 2016
The Mother’s Day gift you can keep on giving
Looking for a gift for Mother’s Day? May I interest you in taking some time out from saying annoying things to mothers for just one day? Here is a by-no-means-exhaustive list of of things you could stop saying… Read More
Posted on September 21, 2015
When we share
Occasionally, I see comments from grumpy people who are very offended. Not by what I’ve written necessarily – more just, that I’ve written at all. They can usually be found on Facebook, when someone else has shared my… Read More
Posted on August 14, 2015
What if you’re not doing it all wrong?
Attempting to watch the news while having my temperature taken by the toddler doctor and making smooching noises at the Christmas Ham (aka the baby – pink and delicious) an ad came on for a current affairs show…. Read More
Posted on June 29, 2015
Lessons from children
A lot of what we do as parents is teaching. And I see a real focus on that in society – you need to teach, they need to learn. But I see very little about how much our… Read More
Posted on May 20, 2015
The Right Way
The other day it suddenly dawned on me that I hadn’t given my 12 week old (I actually think he’s about 14 or even 15 weeks old now but I’m too tired to actually figure it out) any… Read More
Posted on April 25, 2015
I love children
Every now and then someone will breathlessly say to me “I hate kids but I just adore Eddie!” I watch them smugly wait for me to fall over myself with gratitude as if this is some kind of… Read More
Posted on March 15, 2015
A PSA from a cranky mum
What Feels Like Everyone: “Is he sleeping through the night yet?” Me (through gritted teeth): “He’s doing great!” Me (screaming in my head): He’s six weeks old!! What the fuck do you think? He’s a newborn baby! Of… Read More
Posted on March 2, 2015
I am grateful and…
I’ve had a few requests for a no-swears version of my original post. I want the post to be accessible to any sleep deprived mums so here’s a censored version. My other posts (if I ever get around… Read More
Posted on February 26, 2015
I am grateful, now fuck off.
It was some time between midnight and 3am. I was dead asleep. I’d fed the littliest at midnight so it was after that, and it was before he woke up for a feed at 3am. This hardly matters,… Read More
