Category: Projects

Mamatography Week 8: Nesting, Like Birds In Spring Time


47/366 – Cooking Up A Storm I will at some point post more information on  my stocking up the freezer marathon. I don’t know where the energy came from, but I spent five hours in the kitchen cooking up 16 dinners for after the family leave and it’s just us settling back into our routines.…

Mamatography Week 7: More Snow And More Sickness


40/366 – Music Maker At our AP group we had a music teacher come in to do a demonstration session of his classes with the children. I was really impressed by Ameli’s rhythm. It’s no surprise – we sing a lot, but still. 

Mamatography Week 6: Snow And More


A lot of preparation this week, planning and doing what ever we can to make the time pass as painlessly as possible. We seem to be treading water, however. We never get on top of the to-do lists, and we don’t seem to be going anywhere fast… but hey… the days are passing and before…

Mamatography Week 5: Back On Track


We’ve been back in our ‘normal’ routine this week, and the sickness seems finally to have lifted. Thank heavens. I can’t believe it took us almost three weeks to shake this thing!

Mamatography Week 4: This And That


Welcome to week 4 of 2012. Is it just me, or is it really flying by? We’re in FEBRUARY folks. I haven’t even packed away all the Christmas decorations yet! (Yes… I know how bad that sounds!)

Mamatography Week 3 : In Sickness And In Health


We’ve been a flu infested family this week, and it’s been pretty low-key. Still going about our business, but with less energy, and a slightly weightier footprint.

Mamatography Week 2 : Life At Home, Mainly


It’s week two of Mamatography, and it’s been half a very quiet week and then as everything ‘started back’ after the holidays, it’s become insanely busy!

Mamatography: Week 1


It’s a new year and a new photo challenge. I have been moaning far and wide about my camera being broken, and the fact that I’m using an old camera I’d given to Ameli to play with as my main camera again, with my BlackBerry for a back-up. Rather sad, no? Anyway – it’s about…

Mamatography 2012: And So It Begins…


I’m thrilled to share with you the startling line up (and… that’s as far as my ‘get more sporty’ resolution for this year goes!!) for the first ever Mamatography challenge at Diary of a First Child.

Pic Of The Week – Week 52 – The End


We had a pretty quiet Christmas, with just the inlaws here. We decided not to overwhelm Ameli with presents, so although there were about eight bits and pieces under the tree for her, we spread opening them over the course of Christmas eve and Christmas day so that she had a chance to actually play…


We had a pretty quiet Christmas, with just the inlaws here. We decided not to overwhelm Ameli with presents, so although there were about eight bits and pieces under the tree for her, we spread opening them over the course of Christmas eve and Christmas day so that she had a chance to actually play with each item before opening the next. I’m really pleased we did that as it worked really well and she got to spread the excitement out.

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