Remember me?
By hissychick | August 24, 2010
*waves shyly*
Yes I am still here, and yes I really do want to get back to blogging. Just tidying up a few minor impediments first:
Periodic episodes of numbness and pain in my hands that has the medicos perplexed. House decluttering, wallpaper stripping and new floor laying.
Mr hissychick’s new business venture.
Writer’s block.
Juggling school and preschool runs and fitting in what I can around Immyjim’s naps.
And the most piss poor excuse of all, spending time with my kidlets. They are all healthy happy and well and all exercising various ways to crush my spirit of course.
I won’t lie, for some reason trying to catch up on blogging and photos and all of that palaver makes me anxious, and so I procrastinate. However most of those of you who still check in from time to time are probably well aware that I tend to microblog on Fa(r)cebook, so if you want to keep in touch shoot me an email hissychick(at)gmail(dot)com.
To finish up, here are some not that recent pictures of my girl progeny, just to remind you of how cute they really are. Naturally they take after their mother.
Until next time, smooches. With tongue if you get the next round…
Topics: Taking a mini break, blogging ahoy, goth girl, we are family, woman of (non)ambition, words and lack thereof | 3 Comments »
PNFFS
By hissychick | May 18, 2010
It’s fair to say that I am suffering from PNFFS.
PNFFS, in case both you and the mental health professionals didn’t know, stands for Post Natal For Fark’s Sake.
And it as exactly as it sounds.
I am tired. I am anxious. I can’t focus.
I go from loving to monster mama in three nanoseconds flat over the most trivial of things.
There will be no wife of the year prize for me either.
Don’t get me wrong, I love and adore my kidlets (and I would write you a lovely blog update post if the thought didn’t stress me out) and the amazing husband. It’s just that I am a bundle of uneasy nerves.
Is it the sleep deprivation? Hormones? The stress of parenting solo from pre 6am to post 6pm? Lack of vigilance when it comes to unhelpful ways of thinking?
I don’t really care what the cause is, I just don’t want to feel like this anymore.
But I’m not sure where exactly to begin…..
Topics: Going bogue, Hello fiend | 4 Comments »
Mooooooooooo
By hissychick | May 6, 2010
Eight point three five kilos and almost 66 cm at four months and one day.
It would appear I produce King Island Cream and not milk!
Topics: hooray for boobies | No Comments »
The nerve
By hissychick | April 30, 2010
I have a great mother’s group. We have been meeting weekly since miss A was a teeny tacker- a record five years or so- and I mostly love my friends.
There are exceptions to every rule.
Today was at my place and I was happy to see everyone…bar one.
Tell me, why would anyone bring a clearly under the weather and snotty toddler into my house when they know full well how sick miss I has been, and proceed to let them paw and mouth any toy they wanted?
Why would they organise to pick up a nebuliser from another Mum at my house for their so obviously unwell child?
Why would they change the runny nappy of said child on my floor without a mat?
I could scream.
Topics: Ewwwww, Going bogue, hissyfit | 1 Comment »
Sorry kids
By hissychick | April 20, 2010
Gazing into my smudgy with fingerprints crystal ball I foresee some difficult questions being asked of me by misses E and I in the not too distant future (of course it’s a given with miss A but that’s another story).
I am not talking about the usual sex/death/meaning of life suspects. Although of course I dread those, it is the following two questions I fear the most:
“Mummy, why are there so many baby photos of miss A and not me?”
“Why don’t you have a record of all of my milestones?”
And of course if they are particularly savvy:
“Why didn’t you blog about me?”
Ugh.
You used to be able to explain away the lack of photos pre the digital age with the whole limited film excuse and if pressed the truthful albeit pissweak lack of time.
(And when it comes to not having a three day old professional pic of E, the lack of a photographer at the hospital on the day).
So what is it then?
When it comes to the milestones business, I have a baby book with miss A’s milestones carfeully recorded therein. Miss E’s milestones were detailed in my blog.
And when it comes to miss I…well let’s just say that we only found out that she had started rolling front to back when miss A casually told us that she’d been doing it for a few days. She often plays with her sister on the gymini mat as I undertake dog knows what other chores I am forever dealing with right now (probably the never ending freaking washing). Even now I can only hazily tell you that that was about two or three weeks ago.
Yes there is a lack of time factor. Looking after three kidlets is surprisingly time consuming and resource intensive, especially during periods of illness like Immyjim’s resolving bout of bronchiolitis last week (see I just proved my point, reasonably serious illness and two hospital visits and no detailed blog post!).
Yes it is because I am seriously knackered, said illnesses, frequent night feeding and miss E’s inability to sleep through ever are taking their toll (and you think you have it hard first time around- HA!!)
However…sometimes I wonder if part of the reason is that the whole babyhood gig is not novel anymore, and that you take it a little more for granted. And that freaks me big time. The ungratefulness of it all, the future regret at not being able to confidently tell each daughter exactly when she crawled, uttered her first words, nor what her favourite foods or storybooks were.
You know what though? I’m not sure it’s really that either. By releasing myself from the pressure of having to record each milestone I have been able to experience the joy of sometimes being fully present in the moment, able to savour the individuality of my girls and simply go with the flow of their emergence as the unique little people that they are.
When I am not being a grumpy tired naggy mc nag nag chore whore that is (curse you, evil bitch, I won’t let you win!).
I am blessed with three beautiful, intelligent and mostly healthy kidlets. So if you don’t hear from me as often I hope it’s because I am too busy appreciating that fact. And not just when one is at school, one is at daycare and the other is asleep.
Topics: I'm a Mum, Uncategorized, words and lack thereof | 3 Comments »
Buddha bub
By hissychick | April 8, 2010
7.45 kg. 63 cm long. Head circumference 42.5 cm. …at 14 weeks and one day.
Let’s put this in perspective: miss tallest in her class and large craniumed thanks to mummy’s genes A did not reach this weight until six months and the length and head circumference until at least four and a half months.
The former buddha bub title holder miss E was only this chunky by around four and a half months and only reached the same length and head circumference measurements by five months.
It would appear silent reflux is a mere annoyance to my giant baby Immyjim (and me).
She’s gorgeous, she’s healthy, she’s meeting all the appropriate milestones for her age. Hooray for boobies!
Buddha bubs aside I wonder what the ECHN made of Evie’s bold and conversation interrupting “I’ve got a wedgie…no..wait..I’ve picked it out” during Immyjim’s weigh in today?
Topics: Immyjim, hi ho E is on the go, hooray for boobies | 4 Comments »
Happy Birthday to me
By hissychick | March 24, 2010
Immyjim is 12 weeks today…and I turned 34 two days ago:
I am so blessed to have my beautiful family…but truth be told I am a little lost right now. It’s time for hissychick to re emerge but I’m not sure how or where to start.
And that is/was my birthday wish….
Topics: hello i'm boring | No Comments »
Somnolence
By hissychick | March 14, 2010
It’s hard to tell whether it’s merely sleep deprivation, or something else. Just know that the thought of attempting to blog induces a sense of anxiety in this hissychick right now, because I know I should be recording precious moments and yet I feel. so. damn. tired.
And guilty.
And detached.
And that it’s not just the blogging either.
Topics: Going bogue, Silly mummy, moody blues | 1 Comment »
Gotcha
By hissychick | March 4, 2010
Topics: Immyjim | 1 Comment »
Lucky eight. Weeks that is.
By hissychick | February 27, 2010
By some wierd and random act of your choice of deity I find myself with a baby who is asleep and two kidlets at the pool with mr hissychick.
In other words I actually have a chance to blog.
There is so much to catch upon, so much to tell you but as I am currently caught up in a wee bit of anxious state, fuelled of course by broken sleep, the joys of silent reflux and my own wierd fear/loathing of the settling newborns to sleep groundhog day gig I think it’s best to let some pictures do the talking.
First up…my biggest girl, the gorgeous miss A. Five years old, a new bike, a pool party and starting school. Nothing to it!
Then the ever cheeky miss E. Enjoying swimming classes at last…but now refusing to participate at Physie even though she is excited and terribly cute. A cheeky little ham for the camera and scarily grown up now.
Two big sisters who dote on their littlest sister.
Speaking of the little’un….she is growing so quickly in so many ways. Here she is in a gown that was mine as a bub.
Silent reflux with difficulties settling both day and night (it is not nice to hear your baby vomit in their sleep) and the dreaded catnapping are not making life as enjoyable as it could be. However we’ve pulled out the big guns of co sleeping, baby wearing and the swing /hammock/car capsule as well to boob as both food supply and dummy. In addition to mr hissychick’s strangely appealing unkempt father of three beard, the dirty hippy approach is what is getting us through for now.
But enough of that. Here are some more beautiful pics of my gorgeous last bub, little double chinned chunky thighed boombah that she is:
I can’t believe that it has taken me half a week to get this post finalised, and Immyjim has changed even more in the interim but there you go. One day I will capture her crinkly smile for you all so that you don’t notice the fact that my prose has gone the way of my sleep, energy levels and sanity! So much to capture, so little time.
I hear someone waking, so the other photos will have to wait.
Until next post folks….be that tomorrow or in three months time…
Topics: B to the busy, Immyjim, Uncategorized, hi ho A is on the go, hi ho E is on the go, little snippets | 5 Comments »