let's catch up

i've been really trying to find the time to sit down and write but it keeps slipping away! i have a lot of ideas swirling around my head each day and plan on writing them here but just can't quite to get it. anyway, again I am going to try and make a real effort to get back into the blogging swing!


this last week has been a bit of an indoor week, winter is definitely upon us.... finn decorated some cupcakes....

freya has discovered the joy of climbing into things....

i've just started reading an hilarious book a friend lent me "poser - a mother's life in twenty three yoga poses" by claire dederer. i have to say she has described motherhood for me down to a tee! now, i usually don't like it when people read out aloud or write long slabs from books,but i'll have to make an exception here...


claire writes: "we, the mothers of north seattle, were consumed by trying to do everything right. breast-feeding was simply the first item in a long, abstruse to-do list: cook organic food, buy expensive wooden toys.... sleep with your child in bed, ensure that your house is toxin free,... carry your child in a sling, make your own baby food,... don't quit your job. but be sure to agonise about it... also, don't forget to recycle."


as I sit here typing with my cup of tea with bio-dynamic, unhomogonised milk (i am unable to get raw milk in this neck of the woods!), eating my organic sourdough smothered in organic butter and honey and looking over at my lacto-fermenting home grown (must i even mention the word 'organic') beetroot, admiring my children's drawings done in natural honey bees wax crayons, i realise i have well and truly jumped on the organic bandwagon and the twenty-first century of style motherhood for women having children in their thirties... i stand by what i am doing, i don't feel that it is just a trendy thing to do. however, i do find claire's descriptions easy to relate to, obviously accurate, and really very funny. i totally enjoy motherhood (most of the time) and looking at the funny side of it. however, i must remind myself not to take everything tooooo seriously and not to feel guilty of my kids eat 'processed food' every now and then and that i draw the line at cloth nappies (no way can i go there!)   xx