Songs by The Smiths or Things My Three Year Old Said Today?
Portrait of Garnet by his sister or Smiths album cover? In lieu of a proper post, today I have a fun game for you, dear readers. It’s...
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jdettmann
Apr 15, 20152 min read
How Funny? Pants-Off Funny
Benny Hill is a cultural reference that is on its last legs, I’d say. I only recall it vaguely from my childhood, mostly because it...
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jdettmann
Apr 8, 20152 min read
20 Things I Should Probably Have Explained To The New Babysitter
When Garnet says he wants to wear a dress, he means it. Unless he is talking about a T-shirt, which I have taken to calling dresses in an...
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jdettmann
Feb 18, 20153 min read
Shut Up, If You Please
One night I let things escalate horribly. I was so tired of being shouted at and told I was very, very mean, when really I am only a bit...
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jdettmann
Aug 18, 20142 min read
Spread Joy Up To The Maximum
While Garnet was sick all he has wanted to do was have me read him books while he languished in my lap. Once day I dragged out a Play...
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jdettmann
Aug 8, 20143 min read
The Son Also Vomits
My daughter has a remarkable grasp of phonetic spelling. This week has indeed been totally phykd. Gastro. Again. You’re going to start...
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jdettmann
Jul 4, 20143 min read
We Sneeze In The Face Of Danger
May Blossom’s Self-Portrait With Gastro It’s winter here, and with each new and sparkling dawn comes a new illness. I’m quite serious:...
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jdettmann
Mar 5, 20142 min read
Games for Rainy Days
Others are more prosaic. Take ‘Molly Drops Her Phone’. In this game, May Blossom is Molly. Molly takes my phone, puts it in her handbag...
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jdettmann
Jan 15, 20143 min read
When You Think He’s Fast Asleep, He’s Always Wide Awake
Why the italics, you might ask. What has Gusto done to merit that? Nothing. Gusto is being an exemplary feline. It is the jellicle cats...
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jdettmann
Oct 3, 20132 min read
The Trials of Motherhood
He wasn’t a bad baby to begin with, but about six months ago I began to hear tales from his mother about various crimes and misdemeanours...
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jdettmann
Sep 20, 20133 min read
Things Are Good When Things Are Good
Thing 1: Since one or other or another of his or my recent colds or ear infections or other random maladies that have blurred into one...
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jdettmann
Aug 28, 20132 min read
What’s Mine Is Mine and What’s Yours Is Mine Too
Every Tuesday, she will go to a fantastic home daycare, which is, happily, run by my parents’ neighbour. She will be one of five small...
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jdettmann
Aug 24, 20133 min read
Upstairs Downstairs
The state of the carpet on the stairs is too shameful to photograph, so here’s a picture of Garnet in a massive hat instead. Our new...
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jdettmann
Aug 9, 20133 min read
In The House
Remember when I used to write things on this blog? Those were the days, eh? Well, those days might be returning. Things are finally,...
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jdettmann
Mar 8, 20134 min read
Make ‘Em Laugh
May Blossom at work in her office. A month or so ago we let May Blossom watch Singin’ In the Rain. We were on the hunt for a movie that...
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jdettmann
Dec 25, 20122 min read
This Is Just To Say
Our little boy was born ten days ago. Sorry it’s taken me so long to put him down and write a post to announce it. But if you smelled his...
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jdettmann
Dec 9, 20122 min read
We Sleep The Sleep Of The Furious
Whenever May Blossom wakes up these days, the first thing she says is, in a very irritated tone of voice: ‘I didn’t want to go to sleep.’...
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jdettmann
Dec 4, 20121 min read
You Give Me Fever
In the event of finding yourself over thirty-eight weeks pregnant and suffering from a virus that makes you burn with fever and shake...
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jdettmann
Dec 1, 20122 min read
Not What It Looks Like
Also not what it looks like: this image of May Blossom checking on her sibling in my tummy illustrates why late pregnancy, maxi-dresses...
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jdettmann
Nov 28, 20123 min read
My Patience Is The Only Thin Part Of Me
But, weirdly enough, it was one of the loveliest nights I can remember. Partly because nights in general, in my opinion, are for sleeping...
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