Category Archives: Daily Awesomeness

Best Playgrounds in Canberra

Earlier this year (and adding to previous experience) I set out to become the world expert on Canberra playgrounds. I think I succeeded, and I have the travel articles to prove it. First, a not-very-plausible Tour of Canberra (seriously, all of it) through playgrounds. It really does work for seeing all Canberra’s best bits inContinue reading “Best Playgrounds in Canberra”

Louisette Interview, Age Three

Crappy Pictures has a set of interview questions for kids that I used last year. Time to go again. . . I asked these questions gradually, over the course of more than a month – she still tended to find inspiration from around her, and to start getting restless after a few questions. If IContinue reading “Louisette Interview, Age Three”

Where do your ideas come from?

Any writer will tell you – everywhere. In 2015 I plan to write slowly – that is, to drastically alter my usual style (I generally finish a book within a month – whether writing for NaNoWriMo or not). Now that I’ve finished another draft of “Flight of Fancy” (inspired by my daughter’s first fictional storyContinue reading “Where do your ideas come from?”

Activity Wall: The biggest toy for the smallest yard

I had the idea of making an Activity Wall months ago after seeing a few seconds of something much simpler on TV. We already had ball pit balls, and the idea of a vertical plaything that could allow for a toddler “project” (such as sorting the balls’ colours by where they were placed on the wall) really appealedContinue reading “Activity Wall: The biggest toy for the smallest yard”

Plans Made While Pregnant

When I was pregnant with Louisette, I wrote down some of the stuff CJ and I were desperately looking forward to doing with our kids. Lately, Louisette is old enough to appreciate most of these, so I’ve added comments – three years after writing that list. And on to today’s official topic! Here, in noContinue reading “Plans Made While Pregnant”

Louisette tells a story

I’m reading a paperback version of “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There” by Catherynne M. Valente because it’s the second book in a trilogy and only the first and third are available on my sweet, sweet kindle. Louisette picked it up today and looked at the picture on the frontContinue reading “Louisette tells a story”

Ten reasons not to breastfeed

Before I had a baby, I thought all those people who said they’d breastfeed and then didn’t were wimps. I hated the idea of breastfeeding but was determined to persevere. A few days into breastfeeding Louisette I thought all was well (had an 100% natural birth and immediate skin-to-skin contact including an hour of suckling),Continue reading “Ten reasons not to breastfeed”