|••• PeachyHollow •••| » iPhoning it in

Are you a Costco member?

|•••Nin•••| — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:01:45 +0000

Why, yes I am. Here, let me show you my card…

Over the last few weeks it’s become our little weekend routine to lunch our way around the free samples at Costco and then head homeward with a $4.99 rotisserie chicken for supper. Yumm.

Photos coming soon

|•••Nin•••| — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:57:23 +0000

But *somebody* is being rather demanding this week and is REFUSING TO GO TO SLEEPY. At 5pm this afternoon I officially gave up trying to get Oliver to take his morning nap and at 6pm started the bedtime ritual so that he would turn in for the night. Easy, I thought, no morning snooze or afternoon nap today, talk about something being a doozy. Wrong. Here we are at 10pm and the little one STILL WON’T CLOSE HIS EYES. If photos don’t appear here within the next 48 hours it’s because I’ve been admitted to the local psychiatric hospital for extreme sleep deprivation. Fact.

Softer than a baby’s bottom

|•••Nin•••| — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:52:01 +0000

And my baby’s bottom is *very* soft at the moment thanks to the Gro Baby cloth diapers. I don’t even have to use cream, just a dusting of cornstarch each change, and that’s enough to ward off any rash.

Lots of things happening here at Peachy Hollow. Oliver has just had a MAHOOOSIVE growth spurt (elephant child), just had his first cold, and appears to be now budding his first tooth. Yes, signs of a tooth at three months, poor him. And poor me. The girls have just started their new school, my family are over to visit (again), and we have humming birds in our garden *squee!* Proper updates to come soon. Right now I’m enjoying some quality time with my mummy and daddy xx

A late night cream tea.

|•••Nin•••| — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 05:06:57 +0000

Overall sub-par with UHT cream and scones that taste WRONG (jam on the other hand is excellent), but a good attempt given available resources, and good enough for me. *Nothing* beats an authentic British cream tea, of course. Not a sausage. But this will do xx

Refined pores, here I come…

|•••Nin•••| — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 08:26:14 +0000

With Oliver in a deep milk coma, Chesterfield asleep on my bed and The Doc planted on the couch in the family room in front of an epic movie, there’s time (at last) for me to pour a glass of red wine, grab a copy of Us Weekly, and sooth my blemished, weary complexion. It’s been a long, tiring week, thank goodness it’s Friday.

3 days old

|•••Nin•••| — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 04:56:45 +0000

The sweet little peach continues to keep us busy, but moments like this make it all worthwhile. Yes, I’ve completely morphed into one of those classic new parents, thinking everything he does is the most adorable thing ever…

Thankyou all so much for your lovely comments. Hopefully over the next couple of days we’ll settle more into our new routine and I’ll be able to write more than a few quick sentences on my phone. And I’m sure there will be a few more pictures too

So…

|•••Nin•••| — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:15:40 +0000

A perfect little Baby Peach arrived at 9.31pm PST last night, 8 lb and 20 inches.

Mummy, Daddy and Oliver are all doing very well and can’t wait to get back home to Chester Kitten

Feeling hot hot hot

|•••Nin•••| — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 04:34:03 +0000

The San Francisco Bay Area is currently having a bit of a heatwave at the moment and we’re all trying our hardest not to melt into pools of flesh soup whenever we step outside. Apparently it’s record-breaking for this time of year- we even pipped 90F this afternoon. Yikes. That’s like the hottest day of a British summer and over here it’s only April!

Needless to say we had a lovely weekend playing around in the sunshine with some friends who came to stay and I have photo evidence to prove it. But it turns out that my computer isn’t a fan of heat and is refusing to co-operate with anything I try to get it to do. Hopefully it might feel better resting on a couple of ice packs to keep it cool so I put a couple in the freezer just now so they’ll be all ready for the morning.

In the meantime, here’s a iPhone piccy of the glorious sunset that set fire to the sky earlier this evening. I think I can forgive the hot temperatures if they give me sights like this to enjoy xx

Moving house…

|•••Nin•••| — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 05:49:55 +0000

We moved today and I’m exhausted. What a week. We should have proper internet access by Wednesday so I’ll save the details until then.

I’ll just say one thing… I am LOVING my new oven. Stay tuned to find out which one I picked

No news on the test results just yet

|•••Nin•••| — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 05:43:29 +0000

But the vet called to say that they should come in on Wednesday. In the meantime, we seem to be making slow but steady progress. Three days ago he was sitting weak and droopy-eyed on the couch all the time, but since then he’s been increasingly up and about. Today he even sat on the side of the bath and watched with horror as I voluntarily got myself wet and rubbed up against my legs as I was cooking dinner in the kitchen. Small steps every day since last week, but huge progress. I’ve been working ever so hard with him, feeding him morsels of microwave-poached chicken breast every two hours to keep his appetite stimulated which is hopefully giving him some iron and fattening him up a bit too. And then there are all the drugs which he HATES but another trip back to the vet pharmacy today means that the Zithromax is now chicken flavour and far less objectionable to

Thankfully I’ve now got him to the stage where I can sleep comfortably at night without worrying that I’ll wake up in the morning to find him in a coma. There’s a lot to be said for TLC and chicken breast, I’m sure it’s playing a large part in the process and as long as he needs, he shall have.

See you in England!

|•••Nin•••| — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 02:44:31 +0000

The girls and I are just about to get on the plane, squee! © Originally published by Nin for |••• PeachyHollow •••| as See you in England!

Cecily wishes you

|•••Nin•••| — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:45:24 +0000

… a very Happy Thanksgiving from all of us here with the rest of her ‘father’s’ family in Michigan.

Enjoy the turkey feast

Faster Daddy, go FASTER!

|•••Nin•••| — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 23:49:18 +0000

November is quite a little speed freak. She’s also excited to be seeing Auntie Erin in a couple of hours.

Patience little one, we’re almost there!

Poolside relaxation (Day 204)

|•••Nin•••| — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 23:35:12 +0000

Today is the last day of the conference and I’m making the most of it by relaxing on a big cosy sunlounger with a glass of iced tea in one hand and a good book in the other. In front of me is the bright blue temptation of the spa pool, behind me is the bright blue sky and the Pacific Ocean. What with it being November, neither is actually tempting enough to make me want to strip down to my itsy bitsy and dive in, but I can live with that. The fact that it’s November and I’m lying by a pool in the sunshine is more than enough. And the hummingbirds dancing around the bright orange Bird of Paradise flowers next to me are just the icing on the cake. Ahh, this is the life! I could get used to this.

Tomorrow we’re jumping in the car again and heading north to Los Angeles to stay with some favourite friends of ours and I can’t wait.

PS Happy Birthday Mummy! I hope you had a lovely day in London and sorry I couldn’t hear you very well on the phone earlier xxx

This may be premature, but…. (Day 203b)

|•••Nin•••| — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:54:14 +0000

Let the celebrations begin! Well, I’ve started already, hee hee. GO OBAMA! American voters, I love you all (especially the Democrat ones)

CHEERS!