Holidays. We put so much expectation on them, don’t we? And it’s understandable: often, we’ve saved up and looked forward to our little getaway for one heck of a long time. And then the day arrives for us to pack the car up / jump in a taxi to the airport (wahoooo, best feeling!) / board a train etc, and then….our end destination doesn’t quite…
I can’t help getting…maudlin? sentimental?….when writing these life updates. They are a monthly reminder of how quickly time passes, of how quickly life passes – not that I really need a reminder. The changes in Ted from month to month, week to week, day to day mean that it is right there in front of me, constantly; it’s a joy and a massive, bittersweet privilege…
This post was originally going to be called ‘Lessons Learned From Being Fired By A Client After Having Ted’. (I’ve got a real knack for snappy titles, I know.) I was fired by the aforementioned client about this time last year, something I was reminded of the other day when writing an article for another website – all about trying to keep a business going…
Ted has always been a pretty good, unfussy eater. Until recently. At the start, we mainly did baby-led weaning, and he’d devour broccoli like I devour pizza (and biscuits, and frozen yoghurt, and cheese & onion Walkers….). I was quite smug. Ted certainly wouldn’t eat everything; I remember faffing about making various BLW recipes I found on t’internet, including one that involved blending chicken mince…
So, here we are, more than a quarter of the way through 2019 already. Blimey. At the risk of this post being ever-so-slightly self-indulgent, I’m revisiting something I wrote at the end of last year, which was all about what I’d learned, work-wise, in the previous 12 months and what I hoped to take from those learnings into 2019. No-one gives you appraisals or reviews…
This was meant to be a ‘March top picks’ post to go out two weeks ago, but life and sickness bugs got in the way. Excuses, excuses, eh? So now it is ‘top picks #2’ – which we’ll get on with, without further ado. This month we’ve got hand cream, lovely art prints, rubber ducks and MORE. You’re welcome. Aveeno Skin Relief Restoring Hand…
It’s April already! Yikes. This means that, even though it’s still nearly two months away, I can say that Ted will be two at the end of next month. (Not that I’m expecting a sudden influx of queries about his age. It just struck me the other day: how close his birthday is and how it doesn’t seem like two minutes since his first. SOB.)…
This article originally appeared in my newsletter, the Only Teethin’ Monday Mail. If you’d like early access to similar articles plus recommendations for useful resources to help you find success on your own terms, make sure you sign up! (You can find a sign-up form on the homepage, and at the bottom of this page too.) Thank you! I’ve been getting right into the…
This article originally appeared in my newsletter, the Only Teethin’ Monday Mail. If you’d like early access to similar articles plus recommendations for useful resources to help you find success on your own terms, make sure you sign up! (You can find a sign-up form on the homepage, and at the bottom of this page too.) Thank you! I listened to an episode of…
*N.B. I’m planning to write a separate post about breastfeeding, so this is mainly a post about sleep. Or lack of. Or of finally getting some sleep after what felt like a lifetime of none…. Ted really didn’t sleep that much when he was a baby. At least, I don’t think he did. But he must’ve done, mustn’t he? Because that’s what babies do. So…
This article originally appeared in my newsletter, the Only Teethin’ Monday Mail. If you’d like early access to similar articles plus recommendations for useful resources to help you find success on your own terms, make sure you sign up! (form is on the homepage). Thank you! I’ll let you into a little secret: the way I’ve been feeling recently is exactly why I wanted to…
It’s just occurred to me that I first started writing these updates when Ted was seven months old, and he’s now 21 months, so I’m giving myself a little pat on the back for sticking with them for so long. Sure, they’ve mostly been sleep-deprived rambles about morphing into Sybil Fawlty and how I worried I’d stunted Ted’s development by holding one leg and not…
Before we start, I’d like to clarify that I haven’t taken to referring to myself in the third person. Fear not. (Thought I’d clear that up, on the off-chance you were worried that I’d decided to refer to myself only as ‘Laura’ – and not ‘me’ or ‘I’ – from now on.) This post is actually called ‘Laura & Ted’s Top Picks’ because ‘Mine &…
Welcome!
Follow me on Instagram
by thelauraod
by thelauraod
by thelauraod
by thelauraod
by thelauraod
