10 things only a toddler can do!

1. Sleep with four pillows on/under/around him and not get a crick in the neck. Or any other body part 2. Make a spotless house look like a tornado hit it within seven minutes of waking up Little Man invading the kitchen drawers 3. Go from extremely irritating to being the…

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Things I never thought I’d do as a mum…

I'm the mum here but Little Man is the boss. More often than I'd like him to be so! He makes me dance to his tunes (sometimes literally so, as I do the 'swish swish swish' action of the beloved wipers on the beloved bus);…

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Resolutions every mum makes (and usually breaks)

    Mums-to-be have all the time in the world. To fantasize, make assumptions and resolutions. When our little sons or daughters are still kicking around in our bellies, we imagine how beautiful they are going to be (we don’t realise just how much poop and…

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How butter un-stuck a stuck-in head…

So the other evening my cartoon (Little Man, as you might know him), was in high spirits. After running around the house claiming he’s doing “exercise” he proceeded to walk around the living room with the base of his potty on his head. Peeking at us through the hollow (the…

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That Moment When…

Every new parent encounters these ‘moments’ at some point in their journey as new mums and dads. These aren’t just any moments, but moments that either stick on in the memory forever and ever, or, on the other hand, are pushed far back into the…

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Nino Nino Nino: Baby Banter and Toddler Tattle

Language, it is said, brings the world together. Being a mum, I now also believe the lack of it, rather, the lack of any coherent language, also brings people together. Little people. Like Babies and Toddlers. Who speak a language known and understood only by them. Like…

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What mums REALLY want on Mother’s Day…

Happy Mother’s Day to all us hard-working (I needn’t have said that; being a mother implies you are hard-working!) mums. I know today isn’t going to be all that different from yesterday, or the day before, or any day since baby/ies were born; you will…

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My love-hate relationship with the idiot-box

First things first, let me get something clear – when I say ‘my’ love-hate relationship with the idiot-box, I also mean Little Man’s relationship with the concerned item. He’s too little to blog about it himself; and well, I’m talking about how his relationship with the telly affects me…

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