Posts from ‘October, 2008’

We are heading off for a holiday to Queensland.
See you soon!

1. Where is your cell phone? In my bag.
2. Where is your significant other? Lying on the other couch.
3. Your hair color? Ginger.
4. Your mother? Would have been 50 this year.
5. Your father? Would have been 58 this year.
6. Your favorite thing? Getting more than 3 hours of solid sleep.
7. Your dream last night? I […]

Dear Dexter,
Happy First Birthday, my beautiful blue eyed boy.
Two years ago, I had just parked my car at work and I had a thought, a premonition about having a son. At that stage we had no plans to have more children but you were determined to be here!
You have […]

Willow had a friend’s birthday party to go to - the theme was Ariel/Under the Sea/dress up as anything you like. I had already made her a skirt from a waistband of A’s old jeans, some black tulle and lots of ribbon. I bought a sparkly black boa, pink fairy wings with spiders […]

Ok, I’m a bit over cupcakes now. I have been experimenting for Dexie’s birthday party recently, along with the usual baking that Willow and I do. Tonight I chopped the tops off the leftover cupcakes and made them into a faux bread and butter pudding.

I made these the other day - […]

taking the laptop out into the garden
the smell of jasmine
cats and dogs milling around my feet
smoked salmon + cheese and chives dip with mini toast
two imps in the garden
the smell of chocolate mint as one of the imps pulls leaves out
airplanes passing by over head, way way up high
moscato and orange juice
tiny baby caterpillars
the […]

A friend from my old work invited me to a BBQ at her place today. A stayed behind to finish putting the mulch out that we got delivered ages ago, and I took the children. It was a fantastic afternoon, sitting around talking about nothing much in particular. I had said to […]

We usually have something special for weekend breakfasts; from crumpets to pancakes, to big bacon and egg fry ups. This weekend it was going out for breakfast, but a couple of weekends ago I worked on Saturday and stopped in at the Mercato near us.
The Mercato is a massive Italian gourmet deli, but […]

So, work, yes, work. I am currently working in a client facing position (so I don’t want to say exactly what it is) in the healthcare sector. It’s interesting and the hours are great+flexible, pay is pretty good too. On the other hand, it’s not something I see myself doing in the […]

I don’t think I have had such a crap day in ages.
1am, woke up with chest pains. I have had these chest pains before, back in May. They couldn’t work out what was wrong with me then, so I didn’t hold much faith in them working out what was wrong this […]