by Jackie Bailey | Jul 24, 2012 | PhD
I am officially 7 working days into my creative writing PhD. It’s hard to feel much pressure for something which I have three years to complete (FAMOUS LAST WORDS). So I am going to do some planning tomorrow, where I break it down into years, then months, then...
by Jackie Bailey | Jul 6, 2012 | Babies, motherhood
We had our first attempt at childcare today. In the morning, I was feeling a deep, echoing sort of sadness, the type of melancholy which threatens to gush up like an oil well, the deeps of which would make you a wealthy woman if you could trade in those sorts of...
by Jackie Bailey | Jul 3, 2012 | Babies, motherhood, Random insights
Bubba has now been street side of the belly for longer than she was inside. Still, I told her the other day, “I invented you.” But I could never have invented everything about her. It’s more than I could have imagined. We have been through a lot of...
by Jackie Bailey | Jun 15, 2012 | Babies, motherhood, Random insights
Nothing brings home the fact that you are moving house so well as checking the weather forecast for the place you are going to. This coming week in Wollongong, it will be a bit cloudy with some rain, and cooler than Sydney. Which I had forgotten. Here I am, in a room...
by Jackie Bailey | Jun 14, 2012 | Babies, motherhood
Today Ellie and I attended our last Crows Nest Mothers Group. At the risk of being a little sentimental, I wanted to say a bit of a good-bye. I have seen the babies in my mothers group grow from the size of poppets into fully fledged leprechauns, the type who would...
by Jackie Bailey | May 21, 2012 | Babies, motherhood
I have a couple of friends who are pregnant at the moment. Sometimes I envy them. Not the being pregnant part – that was not a glowing time for me – but of it all being just, about, me. There is something wonderfully young and naive about the time before...
by Jackie Bailey | May 21, 2012 | Babies
The end of another day full of life. Bubba is 8 months old and delightful at the moment. She has said a few words, including : “lamb,” “OK,” “Abbah” for Dadda, and “Amma” for Mama. Which is pretty sweet. Listening to her...
by Jackie Bailey | May 1, 2012 | Random insights
I have been mulling over this post for ages now (hmm – probably since I was 12?) The topic always seemed too big to deal with in one feel swoop. But here goes! I just read this article courtesy of my buddy Lance. It’s about the ways in which modern...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 26, 2012 | Babies, motherhood
There are lots of lists of things one needs when one has a baby, but as I mentioned in my last post on the topic, absolutely critical is having some good trash TV to watch. Here are my top tips. THE LAST THREE MONTHS OF PREGNANCY 1. Upstairs Downstairs – the...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 25, 2012 | motherhood, Random insights
20 days ago, I wrote the post “Losing weight.” Since then, I have been on the waggon, off the waggon and now in the last two days, back on again. It appears I have lost about 2 kilos so far. 15 to go. In that time, I fell off the waggon when I got tired....
