![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ailbheWe bought new bunkbeds and sold old ones, so that we can now sleep eight adults or children and a cot-size-toddler without getting any camping mattresses involved or getting a bed out of the attic or anything. We can fit another two on a spare mattress and a campbed, and then there are four camping mattresses too, and the moses basket, so...
The children made their first snowpersons and we had fun with the neighbours.
At some stage, they stopped taking all their clothes off all the time. We engaged an independent midwife to do all my antenatal care and attend the birth of our third child.
We had houseguests and made a new lawn in the postage-stamp rear garden, so that they would have somewhere to stay. We got all sorts of new things, actually: a patio table, chairs and parasol; a new toaster, microwave, and kettle; a birthing pool; a laundry-drying rack. We Freegle/Freecycled a lot of old stuff, and because the council now do electronics recycling we recycled the unusably old appliances.
We grew plants from seed - tomatoes which we ate, even! and they didn't just ALL DIE. We had an avocado stone sprouting for a while too.
Emer's teeth basically crumbled in her head, and she needed lots and lots of drilling and filling, but then they stopped deteriorating, apparently.
Rob started a new job and stopped biting his nails.
I had a long stage of prodromal labour and it was great.
I had a baby at home. She was a particularly fine baby. It was a magnificent birth involving no actual woolly mammoths at all whatsoever.
We bought some homeschool stuff and had our sofa repaired - we have a table for the children to work at and a functional sofa and some lovely books to work from and some great art materials and things.
Linnea almost learned to cycle her bike but stopped again.
Linnea and Emer both had haircuts from Linnea, repaired by adults.
My children met all four of their maternal aunties and all seven of their first cousins. They also met two of their maternal uncles-by-marriage, but not the third.
Linnea learned to read. And we made sundials and did things with magnets and electricity and water and molecules (ballbearings) and ice and she cooked her first solo cooking, which was scrambled eggs, and learned to use the microwave. Both children learned a lot of reproduction and digestion. We travelled to Cork by train and overnight ferry.
No huge family feuds were started, and some were reduced in ferocity, I think.
After many years of mental health issues related to traumatic birth and other stuff, I got access to the right part of the NHS to get long-term treatment intended to treat, not merely manage, my issues, which means my children will have a far better parent than they have thus far, I hope.
Astrid learned to identify words - milk and nappy - and sit up and roll over both ways and eat books and pass objects hand to hand and pick things up palm grasp and pincer grasp and all SORTS of things.
They tried ice-skating and liked it. We went to DWCon and they met some of the babies they know through my internet connection, which was cool. They also renewed acquaintance with some they met at previous DWCons, which is weird and awesome.
I think this is the year they really discovered Lego, too. Lego, reading, oh, and theatre and cinema. They did a fair bit of theatre in 2009 too but more this year.
Also, we had a few parties and people actually came, which is awesome. I will have way more fun planning parties if I expect people to come rather than cancel at the last minute.
And we finished up with across-the-road neighbours coming over for champagne, and now we're watching Jools Holland because that way we'll know when it's midnight and can send the children to bed.
The children made their first snowpersons and we had fun with the neighbours.
At some stage, they stopped taking all their clothes off all the time. We engaged an independent midwife to do all my antenatal care and attend the birth of our third child.
We had houseguests and made a new lawn in the postage-stamp rear garden, so that they would have somewhere to stay. We got all sorts of new things, actually: a patio table, chairs and parasol; a new toaster, microwave, and kettle; a birthing pool; a laundry-drying rack. We Freegle/Freecycled a lot of old stuff, and because the council now do electronics recycling we recycled the unusably old appliances.
We grew plants from seed - tomatoes which we ate, even! and they didn't just ALL DIE. We had an avocado stone sprouting for a while too.
Emer's teeth basically crumbled in her head, and she needed lots and lots of drilling and filling, but then they stopped deteriorating, apparently.
Rob started a new job and stopped biting his nails.
I had a long stage of prodromal labour and it was great.
I had a baby at home. She was a particularly fine baby. It was a magnificent birth involving no actual woolly mammoths at all whatsoever.
We bought some homeschool stuff and had our sofa repaired - we have a table for the children to work at and a functional sofa and some lovely books to work from and some great art materials and things.
Linnea almost learned to cycle her bike but stopped again.
Linnea and Emer both had haircuts from Linnea, repaired by adults.
My children met all four of their maternal aunties and all seven of their first cousins. They also met two of their maternal uncles-by-marriage, but not the third.
Linnea learned to read. And we made sundials and did things with magnets and electricity and water and molecules (ballbearings) and ice and she cooked her first solo cooking, which was scrambled eggs, and learned to use the microwave. Both children learned a lot of reproduction and digestion. We travelled to Cork by train and overnight ferry.
No huge family feuds were started, and some were reduced in ferocity, I think.
After many years of mental health issues related to traumatic birth and other stuff, I got access to the right part of the NHS to get long-term treatment intended to treat, not merely manage, my issues, which means my children will have a far better parent than they have thus far, I hope.
Astrid learned to identify words - milk and nappy - and sit up and roll over both ways and eat books and pass objects hand to hand and pick things up palm grasp and pincer grasp and all SORTS of things.
They tried ice-skating and liked it. We went to DWCon and they met some of the babies they know through my internet connection, which was cool. They also renewed acquaintance with some they met at previous DWCons, which is weird and awesome.
I think this is the year they really discovered Lego, too. Lego, reading, oh, and theatre and cinema. They did a fair bit of theatre in 2009 too but more this year.
Also, we had a few parties and people actually came, which is awesome. I will have way more fun planning parties if I expect people to come rather than cancel at the last minute.
And we finished up with across-the-road neighbours coming over for champagne, and now we're watching Jools Holland because that way we'll know when it's midnight and can send the children to bed.
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-01 08:53 am (UTC)Good to hear Emer's teeth came back to not-crumbling. I was worried and couldn't help but try to imagine what's I'd do if it happened here.
(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-01 01:23 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-01 02:44 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-01-02 08:14 pm (UTC)