raising willow… and dexter!

Every now and then, some lazy journalist gets out a calculator and tries to work out how much a mother who does not work outside the home, is worth. You know, she takes the kids to school, so she’s worth X amount as a chauffeur, she cleans the house, so she’s worth X amount as [...]

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Tagged by the lovely Jenn. Basically because I have a crap memory. I often hear criticism that some blogs just record the mundane everyday details of a person’s life. I think that my blog tends to do this to a certain extent, but I don’t think it is a bad thing. All of those little [...]

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A is putting together Willow’s new bike while we reminisce. This time three years ago I was in the early stages of labour. I’d woken up at 5:30am with contractions, but they were irregular to say the least. They remained irregular for the rest of the day. I had a student midwife who came to [...]

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Meme that everyone else is doing! 1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before? Gave birth to a baby boy. 2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year? I tend not to make resolutions. 3. Did anyone close to you give birth? Me! [...]

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A friend of mine from the parenting forum I go to has started a blog. She is writing it from the perspective of what she would talk about with her late mother. I think this is a brilliant idea. In May next year it will be 6 years ago that my Mum died and in [...]

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In an attempt to avoid brain atrophy, I bought a couple of books today. One serious and one not so serious. Advance Australia Where, by Hugh McKay and Road to Paradise by Paullina Simons. I am planning to go back to Uni next year, so I don’t want my brain to shrivel up too much! [...]

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