Pixie is turning six soon, and I haven’t written about parenting for nearly half his life now. But now I am, and here is my confession: I am a five-plus parent. Five-year-old Pixie is the sweetest, smartest kid in town, sporting the cutest nose. So delightful is he that I can even keep a sense of humour about the whining,… Read more →
I’ve done quite a bit of stress baking over the last few months, and somewhere along the way I designed this neat system for a whole series of weekend-to-weekday chocolate treats. I got work down to a minimum by cheating on everything cheat-able. I figured out how to spread out the steps, so that any given day’s task is doable… Read more →
It’s been a while since I’ve written a post. The reason, mostly, is that this blog is a series of reflections, and when too much life is happening, there’s no time to reflect. That has been the case for some time now: I think I’ll need five years of therapy to digest the past year! But yesterday inspiration has come… Read more →