raising willow… and dexter!

I’m sick. Running a nice sweaty fever and I have a bowling ball wedged in my throat. I believe I also have a good dose of sinusitis and the conjunctivitis that Dexie has is threatening to take over my eyes. I kept both the children home today, partly because the thought of having to get [...]

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I am at the uni library to write an essay for one of my subjects.  I am telling my self that it is only 1000 words, easy to knock over. My head is aching through.  I have a headache – the kind that makes you wince, tense up your neck and squint your eyes.  It [...]

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A and I have been checking out our old blogs on the wayback machine. Weird. Here is a post from mine when Willow was 9 months old. better out than in! October 23rd, 2005 Willow is 9 months old today, so she has been out in the big bad world for as long as she [...]

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…really have used a matter transporter today. No, not a time machine, but I wouldn’t have said no to one. I was stuck on a crowded, over-full bus that hadn’t quite made it out of the city. I knew that once we hit the park lands that surround this fair city, the bus would be [...]

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A was stacking a pack of Uno cards for Willow and he thought he’d test Willow to see if she was psychic.  He held the cards up facing to him, to see if she could guess the number and the colour of the card.  She didn’t even come close!   In fact, the concept of guessing [...]

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Raising a family without my family here is so fucking hard. Please excuse the bad language, but I’m really over it. Perhaps it is because I know how different things would have been if Mum was still around. Willow threw a tantrum last night before bed. She tipped a jug of water over Dexie, which [...]

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I am currently working in a health centre for homeless youth. We are a multi-disciplinary team, a doctor, two nurses, drug and alcohol counsellors, social workers, community workers, out reach workers. We provide, amongst other services, social assistance – food and toiletries. We also run a clean needle program. You know, I thought I’d heard [...]

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Willow put my boots on tonight and said, “look mummy, I’m a mummy!”

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I have been tagged by Aprill!! Here are the rules … 1. Link to the person who “tagged” you. 2. Post the rules on your blog. 3. Write six random things about yourself. 4. Tag six people at the end of your post. 5. Let each person know that they have been tagged by leaving [...]

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Another weekend speeds by. Fridays end with, “So what are you doing this weekend?” while Mondays begin with “How was your weekend?”. I caught up with my friends from uni last night. One (K) has a three year old and a 13 year old, the other (J)has grown boys. We got together at K’s house [...]

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