raising willow… and dexter!

After yesterday’s depressing post, I thought I’d post an inspiring quote that I saw on a parenting forum that I visit. “Thinking that baby formula is as good as breast milk is believing that thirty years of technology is superior to three million years of nature’s evolution. It is an act of female power, and [...]

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This morning we went to the Norwood Christmas Parade – there are a few that take place around the city, but this was the most convenient to us in terms of location and time. In contrast to the Adelaide Christmas Parade, it was cold and raining. We got there at about 9.20am and had breakfast [...]

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My boy cherub stood at the kitchen gate with the universal remote in his hands. Mai? He asked plaintively. Mai, pee? My interpretation of this was “Mother, may I please have the Maisy DVD on? I would appreciate it ever so much.” I agreed reluctantly. Usually I wouldn’t put a DVD on – they are [...]

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Perhaps I could make more of an effort with the children’s lunches, but creating special shaped yolks in hard boiled eggs is going a bit too far for me. Shaped egg yolks on Flickr This is how you do it: Well, I got this amazing contraption…. You pour in eggwhites and put a rod inside [...]

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Contrary to popular belief, you don’t stop being a mother when you are at work. This afternoon we had pizza and champagne for everyone in the building. I thought that my workmate and I should round up the rest of the workers so I said to her “Come on, let’s go!” Then I went to [...]

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Jade green maxi dress from Suzanne Grae, new. Layered Jag silver necklace. Brown Novo thongs, new. Work, in this bloody heat. Attended to two clients in crisis. Currently wearing nightie that my mother hand smocked. It is quite simple, two rectangles of cotton voile, the top edge of one is smocked. She used satin binding [...]

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One of my pink fluffy slippers One of his father’s black crocs Brown long Fred Bare shorts His sister’s black gloves with rhinestones in the shapes of ice skates A white t-shirt with an Easter bunny finding eggs. Willow is wearing a pair of pink tights and Bob the Builder jocks. I’ve never been one [...]

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I don’t do much online shopping, but one of my favourite places to buy things is the Book Depository. They are a British website, but offer free shipping internationally. Orders turn up in a surprisingly short length of time, but they send each book individually. Strange. Apparently, it is something to do with getting free [...]

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I’ve known of NaNoWriMo for some time now, but it’s not something I’ve ever felt I could commit to, plus I have no illusions that my writing is any good. However, I stumbled across NaBloPoMo, which is far more palatable. I can do a blog post every day, right?! I want to get this blog [...]

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Doing his best Zoolander impression here. The funny thing about this photo is that a friend just emailed it to me. She’s been telling me that she had a photo to send to me for some time now. I have no idea where it was taken and I’m not even sure who the people are [...]

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