Month: April 2020
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A photo a week challenge: Just for Fun
This photography challenge comes from Nancy Merrill Photography. The challenge was something fun. My contribution is a photo of Hogwarts castle, from Harry Potter, which I took in 2019 at Universal Studios, Japan while I was pregnant last Spring. Japan was so much fun. I think Japan and South Korea were my two favourite countries […]
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French Programmes for Kids on Netflix
So after my last post I was asked by someone how I found French programmes in Netflix for our home language immersion for Jellyfish. Here is a list of all the ones I’ve found. You can set up a new profile and change the language settings to French instead of English for that one profile. […]
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DIY No-Sew Montessori Toy
We’re starting a bit of Montessori right now, particularly in the way of getting Jellyfish to play with toys that show him how to sort, organize, or how things work. If you’ve looked into implementing Montessori in your playroom (or in our case, the square metre of floorspace in the living room where Jellyfish can […]
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Postcards to my Baby: Shanghai’s Old Town
Dear A. One day, you’ll see China for yourself and understand why I can’t describe it very well in one postcard. It is a land of opposites, complications, and yet… simplicity. On one hand, the bureaucracy to do anything at all is intense, and often requires an app which only mostly works in English, until […]
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A photo a week challenge: Peaceful Place
The creative geniuses around WordPress are finding ways to keep the now-defunct weekly photo challenge alive. This challenge comes from Nancy Merrill Photography. The challenge was a place that brought you peace. My contribution is a photo I took in 2018 at Lake Tahoe, just a few miles up the road from the town of […]
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Applying for Midwifery Science and Dietetics
So I’m still thinking on this, but it’s something that I’ve been wondering about for a long time. Being a midwife over here isn’t the same as being one in America. Over here you’re part-obstetrician and part-obstetric nurse (we don’t have ob nurses over here at all, just midwives). In Northern Ireland, midwives do all […]
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Should I change to reusable nappies?
This was the question I was asking myself two weeks ago. Also, how do you clean poo out of reusable nappies? Which reusable diapers are better, 1-part or 2-part? What is a booster? Are bamboo boosters better or microfibre boosters? No seriously, WHAT is a booster? How often do you change a reusable nappy? How […]