You know, I was always really bad at party games. I was fantastic at partying (oh, boy do I have stories to tell about my partying days! But not here. Ahem. That’s a whole other blog topic. An anonymous one. Anyway).
So. Party games. Charades, Pictionary, Twister, Scrabble, Spin the Bottle. Actually, hold on. I was [...]
When we found out we were having boys – no, we didn’t want to be surprised, and we got the low-down during the ultrasound at the earliest opportunity – Piotr and I sat and stared at each other as we desperately searched for names. With Polish grandparents here and my Mom in Canada, we wanted [...]
I guess a legitimate question would be, if I had such terrible postpartum depression after Max, why on earth would I have another baby (if you haven’t read about the whole PPD thing, just hop down one blog entry and come on back here. I’ll wait for you).
So. Baby #2. Let me preface this by [...]
This is something that I’ve wanted to write about for awhile, and I have finally screwed up enough courage to do it – maybe enough time and distance have passed for me to have the courage.
Max was such a wanted child: 6 months before we started trying to get pregnant, I lost some weight, started [...]
Max is three and although he fully understands everything being said to him in both English and Polish, he does tend to mix the languages sometimes, particularly when he only knows a certain word in one language. Instead of asking what the word is in Polish or English – which we encourage him to do [...]
The first childcare battleground I found myself on was the medical one. Specifically, vaccinating my first-born son, Max.
When we went to the English-language maternity classes here in Warsaw, we were all told by the midwife that our babies would be vaccinated within 3 hours of their birth. All of the Poles looked quite relaxed at [...]
