Santa’s on his way!

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 24, 2010 in Calendar Event, Life |

It’s official. The Six-One News reported that Santa has left the North Pole. It was the most bizarre...

Remembering

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 23, 2010 in Love | 4 comments

When I turned 30, hubbie and I decided to stop trying to avoid getting pregnant. We weren’t going to...

Roll on Christmas!

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 23, 2010 in Calendar Event, Love |

Just a quick post to say, the fridge has arrived, the baking is done, the presents are wrapped, and...

App of the week:Parenting Ages and Stages

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 21, 2010 in Play, Reviews |

Parenting Ages and Stages is a great free iPhone app from Parenting magazine. To use the app, you enter your...

Ho Harvey Ho!

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 20, 2010 in Calendar Event, Love |

Normally I love Mondays. Monday is my parental leave day. It belongs to me and Little Man. It’s a day...

My breastfeeding story Part 4: The Breastfeeding Support Group

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 19, 2010 in Life, Love | 6 comments

In the last post on my breastfeeding story, I wrote about the first couple of weeks after coming home from...

Christmas Jumpers and Barnardos

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 18, 2010 in Calendar Event, Life, Love |

Check out the Christmas Jumpers competition on the One4All Ireland Facebook page. They’ve teamed up...

Who’s afraid of Santa Claus?

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 17, 2010 in Calendar Event, Love | 1 comment

Santa Claus came to visit all the children in the crèche today. And Little Man freaked out! He hid in the...

Guest Post: Long Haul Adventures

Posted by Rob on Dec 16, 2010 in Calendar Event | 1 comment

The following post was shared by Rob, devoted Dad to a 6-month old little girl. Rob recently travelled to...

My breastfeeding story Part 3: Coming home

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 15, 2010 in Life, Love |

This week I’ve been recalling my breastfeeding story, starting with the first hour after Little Man...

BLW: Banana Pancakes

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 14, 2010 in Love |

Earlier this week, I was reading Proper Fud, one of my favourite Baby-Led Weaning blogs. Jill gave a yummy...

My breastfeeding story Part 2: Our hospital stay

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 14, 2010 in Life, Love | 4 comments

Yesterday I started recounting my breastfeeding story in “The First Hour.” Today, I’m...

My breastfeeding story Part 1: The first hour

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 13, 2010 in Love | 4 comments

I’ve been writing a lot about breastfeeding recently, so I think it’s about time I told my story...

This house of straw: update

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 12, 2010 in Love |

Remember my complaints recently about our upstairs stairgate coming away from the wall, and leaving a big...

App of the week: I hear ewe – animal sounds for toddlers

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 10, 2010 in Play, Reviews |

Today Little Man rediscovered I Hear Ewe, an iPhone and iPad app that I downloaded a few months back. This...

From coffees to cocktails

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 10, 2010 in Life | 1 comment

At the time I got pregnant, only one of my friend’s had had a baby. And she lives several hours from...

Jack Black and the key to good parenting

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 9, 2010 in Love | 4 comments

Jack Black gave an interview this week to Parade magazine, where he shared some parenting insights. Top of...

Someone stole my snowman!

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 7, 2010 in Calendar Event, Life, Love | 1 comment

Well they claimed him! I got a text from a friend of mine earlier saying that there was a picture of my...

Bumbo Baby-sitter

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 6, 2010 in Play, Reviews | 4 comments

Little Man was about 10 or 11 weeks old when we bought him a Bumbo seat. I had seen them in Mothercare and...

Baby slings

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 5, 2010 in Play, Reviews |

When Little Man was just a couple of weeks old, he started to be really wakeful at night. The later it got...