8 things you need to know about 8 month olds
1) They probably have teeth. And these teeth don’t appear as white shiny pearly things. Instead they push through the gums as slivers of see through glass. Look like glass. Cut like glass. All that […]
2015
Can’t cook, Will Cook: Chicken in Tarragon Sauce
Cooking does not rate as one of LadyNicci’s talents. The husband will confirm this. For the duration of our relationship it’s been a bit of a running joke about how crap my cookery skills are. […]
Keeping up with the keyboard
Things have been very busy at LadyNicci HQ this week. There was some recovery from the wonderful IPB Awards and lots of follow up too. I love to network and I’ve met so many interesting […]
Top ten reasons to buy a ticket to the IPB Awards next year
The night of the Mammy and Daddy year (Irish Parenting Blog Awards) took place on Saturday 25 April in Odessa, Dublin. If you’ve never been to Odessa, it’s a restaurant and bar that formerly operated […]
Giving off positive vibes – can you feel them?
Do you ever look at your life and think; that was a great year? I bet everyone can pick out some parts of their life and associate shivery good time feelings with that y-era. 16 […]
And the winner of the WaterWipes competition is…
Congratulations to Samantha McArdle who has been chosen as the winner of the three month supply of WaterWipes. Baby August pulled the winner from the pile – there is a very cute video which I […]
Being routine – how boring are you?
“Once you get into a routine you’ll be grand.” No parental phrase was ever truer spoken. Pre-bambino I wasn’t a big fan of routines.They spelled boring. Predictability. Someone with no sense of adventure in their […]
It is Easter. We got Easter Eggs: The start of a love affair with the written word.
In the About Me section of LadyNicci.com I describe my earliest memory of writing. Or at least the evidence I have found of this writing. I discovered it in an old diary, written in green […]
WaterWipes – win a 3 month supply on LadyNicci
When I was pregnant last summer the very kind mother-in-law dropped round a large packet of WaterWipes. It was the package with four packs in it (usually retailing for about €9.99.) “You’ll need those,” she […]
In the doghouse. Again.
I have a confession to make. And you’re probably going to hate me when I tell you. I’ve fallen out of love with my dog. I feel terrible. It’s like I’ve been cheating on her […]
100 things that make Irish people happy
Today is International Day of Happiness. I know this, because I googled ‘happiness day’ about six months ago. I had started working on a piece about the small things that made us happy and I […]
A slice of Tartt: The Goldfinch, the waffle and fine art
Last night I finished reading Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. This has been quite a journeyed book for me. I downloaded in on my Kindle at some stage in the last months of my pregnancy and […]
A little update on the writing and the Irish Parenting Blog Awards
Things have been pretty busy of late. In a good way. I made a small resolution at the start of January to ‘write more’. That was it. No big promises to myself about targets and […]
Becoming Dot Cotton: the trouble with laundry
I have to talk about laundry. No really, I do. I’ve been having a good hard long think about it recently. I’ve been thinking about it while I sort clothes, wash clothes, hang clothes out […]