May Blossom 5/6

jdettmann

Dec 16, 20111 min read

Early Christmas

All I wanted for Christmas this year was the chance to watch my grandmother gaze at May Blossom. I got it. This picture was taken by H...

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Dec 15, 20113 min read

Fly Away Home

Perhaps someone could explain to my eyelids why I am so damn shattered then. Maybe it’s because on our splendid holiday we visited the...

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Dec 2, 20112 min read

What A Lot Of Carry-on

The two suitcases are packed — beautifully, if I do say so myself — using the rolling technique. I am a fairly crap clothes folder, so it...

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Nov 30, 20111 min read

Come Fly With Me

Did you know that today is International Fifteen-Minute Nap Day? I didn’t either, until May Blossom informed me. It’s some sort of...

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Nov 28, 20113 min read

Travel Gobstoppers

My kitchen is as tidy as my photographs are focused. As the day when we board a plane for a fourteen-hour flight with a toddler grows...

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Nov 23, 20112 min read

Rainy Days

Rainy days when you have a toddler are, however, a whole different kettle of weasels. Especially a toddler who is going through an...

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Nov 21, 20113 min read

What, This Old Thing?

How many of your clothes do you love? I mean love as in you’d think about them for a long, long time if you never saw them again. I have...

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Nov 11, 20111 min read

The Cure for Autumn Envy

What this means is that the food bloggers are always writing about the finding delicious new season apples in their farmers’ markets just...

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Nov 10, 20112 min read

Sweet Potatoes of Horror

This young orang-utan could rustle up a tastier dinner that the recipe that follows. Sometimes when the supplies of food in our house get...

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Nov 7, 20112 min read

Being One, Alphabetically

B Blueberries: why not allowed to eat unlimited quantities? C Cat: for kissing. D Doors, slamming thereof: why so annoying to parents? E...

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Nov 4, 20112 min read

All Of The Five Little Ducks Came Back

I learned of Flora’s (a pseudonym) birth by a text message with a picture an hour after her birth, which was unexpectedly...

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Oct 28, 20112 min read

Do Yourself A Favour

This morning, between baking four huge chocolate cakes and dealing with a toddler suffering from what I thought was fear of the noise the...

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Oct 26, 20111 min read

Down With Diversity

Where are your friends? If this is some sort of sock conspiracy to make me lose my tiny mind and turn to the cooking sherry before nine...

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Oct 25, 20111 min read

Re-reading Matters

How funny, that's exactly the outfit I am wearing as I write this blog post, right down to the lipstick and earrings. Mem Fox says in her...

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Oct 19, 20112 min read

Great Cakes in History

In the lead-up to May Blossom’s birthday, the cake preparations continue. Today’s post is an homage to some of the great cakes of my...

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jdettmann

Oct 17, 20112 min read

Home on the Driving Range

But I couldn’t think what to do. I wanted a nap, but couldn’t sleep. Leaving May Blossom with H, I shufflestomped (yes, exactly like a...

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Oct 14, 20111 min read

Friday Regrets

Today I was going to start a series inspired by the lovely blog Soulemama, in which each Friday I would post a picture of a wonderful...

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Oct 13, 20113 min read

The Cake Files, Part I

In the lead-up to May Blossom’s birthday, there has been a lot of cake talk. First of all, her Uncle Superchief (my older brother)...

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jdettmann

Oct 10, 20112 min read

Safety First

Obviously I’m not suggesting that my child, or yours for that matter, is an idiot, just that they do like to do quite a lot of dumb...

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To Sleep Perchance Would Be A Fine Thing

jdettmann

Oct 6, 20113 min read

To Sleep Perchance Would Be A Fine Thing

Gusto: the best sleeper in the house Before May Blossom was born, I had a relatively untroubled relationship with sleep. I liked it a...

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