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Random thoughts

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I have been wishing for another child for a while. Convincing hubby is another story given the rough start with Emma, his being self-employed and working all hours and what I call a man-characteristic fear of  increased responsibility. This post is not to give you the good news I managed to convince him but just to reminiscence over Emma’s growth through pictures from my old phone. The quality may not be great, but the cuteness is extreme, be warned :-)! P.S. – Emma is doing a much better job at convincing daddy anyway, she has been carrying this baby doll around for the past two days,cuddling and kissing it and meeting its every need and melting his heart…

Visiting grandparents and routine chaos

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We made it safe to Patra to my in-laws. The seven-hour journey went better than expected as Emma fell asleep at her usual time and woke up only for half an hour when we arrived in my in-laws house around 1 a.m. What really didn’t go well(and it never goes well, every time we have visited them in the summer) was the afternoon nap. It must be the heat or the excitement of seeing them or the change or…but Emma goes from perfect sleeper to crazy sleep-deprived maniac when we come over.  I have been wrecked after a cold and two nights of going to bed at 2 a.m. and have been soo looking forward to having a siesta today,especially since the temperatures soared to 40 Celsius. No such luck for me but…I tried EVERYTHING to coax her into sleeping  and so did her dad, from speaking softly to making threats to leaving her in her room for 10 minutes to cry it off to pretending we were both asleep to taking her into our …

Travelling days

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Okay, I’ve been down with another cold for the past two days and a bit crabby towards hubby because of it. So he decided we should go on a trip to see my in-laws six hours away, leave toddler into my mother in law’s trustful care and head somewhere for a wee “couple break”. It has become a tradition since we had Emma to have a two to three day break from everything tucked away in a good hotel on a blissfully indulgent Greek island. So my one post a day will become a sweet challenge as we never bring a laptop along when we’re away. But I’ll manage somehow :-). Cheerio for now, talk soon then!

Settled and taking on new challenges

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We have been in Greece for nearly six weeks now. The house is furnished, the air con is in and everybody is settled into a comfortable routine. I am actually very content with it as with Emma we get to go for walks in the morning before it gets too hot(and the place we live in couldn’t be safer and more entertaining for a young child), then we have some Dora the Explorer time while mummy cooks. Siesta is a must every day and it’s not a rare occurrence for Emma to do up to three hours of zzzzzzzz….while mummy reads or rests. In the afternoon we do some indoor activity until it cools off and the we’re off to the beach for an evening swim with Daddy. We go to bed quite late because we always delay either with a gyros or souvlaki in the village square or watermelon or home baked sweets with our dear friends and neighbours. So it’s time for me to get back into blogging…I have been reading a lot …