Emily

You learn from your mistakes (guest post)

This week's guest post is from the fabulous Enid of Enid Bite'Em, the blog about reading, ranting and roller derbying.Enid's blog is always guaranteed to get me thinking, nodding along, fired up, or laughing. Or all four at once.So I ...

No two babies are alike (guest post)

Welcome to the first of my bubby bloggy break guest posts!And please welcome... Kelly from Handmade Tears and Triumphs! (Insert applause track here.)Kelly is one of my favourite bloggers and, bless her cotton socks, jumped at the chance to guest post ...

It’s time for my bubby bloggy break!

It's time.Time to prepare for the arrival of bub. Time to completely give in to my nesting instinct.Nawww, look at all the cute little person clothes with theblue and the stripes and the... (cluck, cluck)Time to soak up some precious ...

‘Dumbphone’ has been added to the Oxford English Dictionary Online

Forgive me, fellow learners. My brain has been mush lately, and I somehow missed the latest wordy nerdy news last month.Better late than never!In February, along with a bunch of other texty, techy words, Oxford English Dictionary added the word ...

Pregnancy is an experience of contradictions

Home stretch, people. Home stretch.(And what a stretch. This belly! Surely it can stretch no more?!)In approximately one month's time, a new life will enter the world. Our world. Our family.We are very excited. When we have enough energy to be. ...

Velociraptors were not as large as is commonly believed

The QI Elves on twitter (@qikipedia) made my day recently.Back in the earliest days of this blog, I confessed a long-held fear of mine. Not of something understandable, like heights, or spiders. Or snakes. Or the idea of Eddie McGuire one day ...

You shouldn’t procrastinate because it’s (finish this title later)

Last week was a week of to-do lists.A week of writing them.Not a week of completing items on them.I seemed to forget that simply writing down what I need to do isn't the same as doing them. It's not even getting halfway there.It's just yet ...

Watching your child learn things on their own is amazing

I love helping Ashleigh learn new things. There's a sense of satisfaction and, I'll admit, self-serving pride when I explain something to her and see the 'penny drop' moment, knowing that she has understood.But she's reached that age where ...

Green Eggs and Ham has just 50 words in it

50 unique words, that is.SourceTheodor Seuss Geisel was challenged by his publisher, who bet that he couldn't create a children's story, let alone an engaging and popular one, using 50 words or fewer.In 1960, Geisel rose to the ...

You can create a ‘why’ question from anything

I'd been warned it was coming. But knowing about it and living it are two very different things.The 'why' phase.At first, it was very cute. As most development stages are. And I revelled in the fact that my child was become more inquisitive ...