BLW: Toad in the Hole

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

Time for another recipe from the Baby-led Weaning Cookbook today. This time I made Toad-in-the-hole....

Color & Go Baby Crayons

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Dec 3, 2010 in Play, Reviews | 6 comments

Now that we’re housebound until the snow melts, we have to get creative to stop ourselves going...

Snow Days

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

Earlier this week, it started snowing here. It took about a half a day before I started feeling a bit stir...

Normalising breastfeeding in Irish society

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 30, 2010 in Love | 1 comment

Following yesterday’s post about the ESRI findings about how low a percentage of Irish women...

ESRI Study: Irish-born mothers less likely to breastfeed

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 29, 2010 in Life |

The ESRI Report on Growing Up in Ireland 2010 was released today, November 29th. It makes for interesting...

That Christmas feeling

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 28, 2010 in Calendar Event, Love | 3 comments

What a prefect start to Christmas. The tree is decorated. The appropriate baby-proofing measures have been...

The loneliest decision

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 27, 2010 in Love | 6 comments

I’ve been reminiscing a lot about this time last year. And of course one of the main things I’ve...

Every parent’s medicine cabinet

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 26, 2010 in Life |

All the talk yesterday about how Little Man has been sick constantly since starting creche got me thinking...

MMR time?

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 25, 2010 in Love |

Little Man is now almost two months overdue his MMR. He was sick around the time of his first birthday when...

Luvvies as loveys

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 24, 2010 in Love, Play, Reviews | 2 comments

When Little Man was just three months old, his aunt and uncle in Canada gave him a gift of a small little...

Getting in the Christmas spirit

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 23, 2010 in Calendar Event | 1 comment

I’m so excited about Christmas this year. Little Man loves anything shiny, especially lights. So I...

And he’s off!

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 21, 2010 in Love | 1 comment

Over the course of this weekend Little Man has gone from taking a few steps before falling on his bum to...

A little shut eye!

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 20, 2010 in Life, Love, Sleep |

Getting Little Man’s naps just right is a fine balancing act. Naps too long and he won’t sleep...

Early to bed, early to rise

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 19, 2010 in Life, Love, Sleep |

I got a shock when the sound of Little Man’s coughing woke me this morning. You see when I checked the...

BLW: Moroccan Chicken

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 19, 2010 in Love | 4 comments

Tried another recipe from the BLW cookbook today. Moroccan chicken this time. I have to say I was not...

Flylady is cluttering my inbox

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 18, 2010 in Life | 5 comments

The irony of it. The website that claims to help you declutter your home doesn’t seem to give any...

This house of straw

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 17, 2010 in Life |

Just when I thought we were getting the baby-proofing under control, the stair gate came out of the wall...

Sophie the giraffe

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 16, 2010 in Play, Reviews | 1 comment

My favourite toy these days is Sophie the giraffe. Little Man is a big fan too but sometimes when he’s...

All by myself…I wanna be all by myself!

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 15, 2010 in Life | 1 comment

In the news this week is a very interesting study, which has found that only children are happier....

A milestone

Posted by Lisa | Mama.ie on Nov 14, 2010 in Life | 2 comments

No this wasn’t one of Little Man’s milestones. This one was mine and hubbie’s. Tonight for...