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All in The Bean
There are birthdays, and then there are BirthDays. Ones that need more than a cake and a candle, so to speak. Ones that stop you in your tracks, ...
In August a friend of mine showed me one of those quotes, one of the many that pop up on facebook every day, but this one stuck. It was in Italian but it goes something along the lines of: there was once a...
It's not easy, this baby appearing in your home and being so utterly useless yet still constantly drooled over by everyone and YET STILL you're expected to just LOVE HIM. It's not easy, but I think it is getting better.
There was once a little boy, of a generally sunny but also pensive disposition, who often struggled with bad dreams.
"Don't wake up your brother!" Said the Husband to the Bean. "Your brother "?! Crap, I thought. There's two of them.
... don't involve babies. Or maybe they do, in a roundabout way; When I set out to MAKE ALL THE THINGS before Bug's arrival I assumed I'd only get a fraction done. Turns out that this baby is indeed snug as a bug.
"Mummyyyy?... I want a bobbly jumper too. Can you make me one?"
We arrived in Sweden with a hand-waving, Grana-munching little Italian. Change was inevitable, and at 4 years old the Bean is now very much a Little Swede.
Colour, especially of the eyeball-pleasing saturated kind, is a rare thing in Sweden at this time of year. Imagine my delight, then, when our Christmas in Devon this year was surprisingly ...
Nine months in, we're no longer complete newbies. The winter has passed, the sun and the light and the colours are back. There are windswept barbeques to be held, forest paths to be explored, and some serious thinking about the future to do. Or maybe not.
