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Tag Archives: nanny
Let The Hallucinations Begin
There’s only so many times the Bermuda Triangle or black holes fascinate many people, why should wardrobe doors be any different. Ms Rockstar has been a real screamer lately, because the noisiest of construction works started up again for most … Continue reading
Posted in Rockstar Shots, Talking To Rockstar
Tagged appropriate response, bermuda triangle, black holes, bright sunny skies, burp, cup of coffee, dior, disapproval, e entertainment, excuse, imagining things, ivy league, muse, nanny, playmat, priorities, rockstar, screamer, thunderstorm warnings, wardrobe doors
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I’ve Got You Babe
I behaved in the days leading up to the nanny’s final departure recently as someone who would soon join the Legion Of People Perpetually Trapped Under Napping Babies: 1) Tried to see all my regular friends “one last time” sans … Continue reading
Posted in Babycare Bootcamp
Tagged babe, babes, babies, clinique concealer, dark undereye circles, final departure, fruit smoothies, god, laptop, last time, nanny, numbers games, panda, panda eyes, rockstar, Shopping, squeezies, toiletries
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Tales From Breastfeeding Bootcamp
It is one of life’s injustices of a proportion similar to waiting and waiting for a school application email while umpteen penis enlargement ads and knock-off “Vigara” promotions hit your inbox. I don’t give a freak if you went to medical … Continue reading
Posted in aileensml, Rockstar Thoughts
Tagged 6 years, audition, breast milk, breastfeeding, breasts, contortions, electric breast pumps, electric pumps, feeding time, gratification, guilt, HK Sanatorium, hormones, injustices, mammaries, medical school, nanny, penis enlargement, rockstar, sanatorium, school application, shocks, suckling, toddlers
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Not Quite The Biggest Loser
Things that make you go Hmmmm???!!! For a moment my second child appears to develop a morbid fear of triangles when I set the book down open at this page. I’ve said before that I put on huge amounts of … Continue reading
Posted in aileensml, Rockstar Thoughts
Tagged 5 months, alessandra ambrosio, apples, baby weight, carrots, deserts, eggs, fast food, french fries, ginger, heidi klum, last time, morbid fear, mths, nanny, noodles, pregnancy, scales, soft drinks, tofu, triangles, veg, victoria's secret models shed baby weight
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When You Don’t Have A Mobile…
We interrupt the Original Rockstar Flashbacks briefly for a pic of the new Baby Rockstar all settled in Rockstar’s old crib. Kings deserves a medal for hauling everything out of storage and coordinating the new furniture arrival and moving, and … Continue reading
Posted in Rockstar Shots
Tagged baby einstein, bookrest, flashbacks, nanny, new baby, new furniture, old baby, sensitive hearing, storage, tiny sound, window blinds
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The Confinement Nannies
“Yeah, you’re pregnant. You need to tell the nurse what hospital room you want, shared or single, so we can do the booking.” That was my first Gynea checkup, 2 weeks after the test showed positive (so, the nurse explained, … Continue reading
Posted in Rockstar Thoughts
Tagged blood test, c section, chinese friend, chromosomal abnormalities, confinement, confinement nanny, craziness, egg, friend of a friend, gynea, heartbeat, hk passport, hkd, hkid, last time, mainland, nanny, nurse, private hospitals, queen mary, vacancy
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The Worst-Kept Secret…
… is that I’m pregnant. I kept feeling with the hormones and the morning sickness that I must be behaving extra-weird and so I kept explaining to people why I might be extra-weird. (Because when I’m weird, I’d like it … Continue reading
Parking Rockstar In Local Putonghua Oral Classes
So it’s the school hols and now most of our friends are travelling, while we are Hong Kong-bound. So for want of something to do (and Rockstar’s Putonghua nanny from China being indisposed*, thereby not being able to take him … Continue reading
Posted in School For Rockstar, Talking To Rockstar
Tagged aussie, bloomberg, Cantonese, counterparts, english schools foundation, hk, hundred thousand, hundreds of thousands, ish, locals, mun, nanny, preoccupation, Putonghua, rockstar, sanity, school hols, speaking english, spoken english, wor
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