by Jackie Bailey | Apr 19, 2012 | Babies, motherhood, Uncategorized
Is it wrong to apply the skills from work to your 7 month old baby? I just read this post on Mamamia from a mum who applies her skills as a lawyer to her children. She has spreadsheets and applies the SMART principles to parenting. This struck an OCD chord with me. I...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 6, 2012 | Uncategorized
Being post-Catholic at Easter, I think of the Jesus story with a wistful sort of yearning. Good Friday’s service, the Veneration of the Cross, was always my favourite service out of the entire Catholic calendar, even better than Christmas in my estimation. I...
by Jackie Bailey | Feb 28, 2012 | Uncategorized
Solid foods for my little girl. Solids! Pretty soon she will be asking to borrow my high heels (or not asking) and I will be researching how to lock the location services on her iPhone Series 12. I know it’s cliched, but the time when you have a baby in your...
by Jackie Bailey | Jan 23, 2012 | Uncategorized
Our good friends, Rachael and Tim and their bubba Super Sebastian, are moving to Indonesia in two sleeps. Boo! Hiss! It is so very easy to get caught up in the day-to-day-ness of life – sleep, eat, feed baby, sleep, eat – that it is easy to think that a...
by Jackie Bailey | Dec 2, 2011 | Uncategorized
I went to my mothers group yesterday. It was our first solo flight – after the first five meetings at the early childhood centre, it is up to the group to sort itself out. We met at a really big club, the type where members sign everyone else in. I normally...
by Jackie Bailey | Nov 8, 2011 | Uncategorized
I did not love my baby the first time I set eyes on her. The first time I saw her, the main impression I had was, “Whose baby is that?” My husband and I both said the same thought out loud: “She doesn’t look like either of us.” Yen...
