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Daily Life

Today I will mostly be saying what is on my mind

June 18, 2010
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We have been in and out of hospital this week as William has had complications with high potassium levels in his blood (potential side effects: instant death!). He missed his big class trip to the seaside on one of the sunniest days of the year, a trip that many of their lessons for the rest [...]

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Waiting, a tad impatiently for my liking

June 7, 2010
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For a birthday a couple of years ago, I was given a beautiful piece of furniture, an apothecary chest. It is a beautiful chest, both to look at and use, and also because I know it was made ethically in Indonesia using sustainable mango wood.  It has lots of drawers in which to store things [...]

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Tired dork

February 22, 2010

Sleep deprivation is a bitch. But when I’ve had a bad night, or two, or twenty I only have to look at one of the many mothers (and oh, there are so many right now, it must have been rutting season last May in this part of the country) at the school-gate carrying a newborn [...]

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Blog confessions

February 4, 2010

Adrenalynn recently posted some confessions and I was inspired to do the same because I like to share. So here are my top five confessions: Confession Number 1 I tell my children I cannot come out and play with them in the garden because I am busy doing chores. In reality I am on Facebook, [...]

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What a week

January 24, 2010

Matthew returns today after ten days away in the US. He is frequently away so it is not like the last week has been anything particularly out of the ordinary. Still, I am surprised that I have survived. Let’s see. What did I do? Well, I parented four naughty boys without any of us really [...]

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Christmas traditions in status updates

December 24, 2009

Dec 17: It’s eleven o’clock and I’m making gifts for the boys’ teachers for tomorrow. I’m making them, and I’m looking at them, and I’m mostly thinking SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT THEM A BOTTLE OF WINE. Dec 18: has mistaken ‘Christmas party’ at preschool to mean lunch not needed and sent her preschooler without. Bad mother. [...]

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Snoutbreak

December 17, 2009

Week three (last week) saw my eldest son Harry fall ill with swine flu, approximately five minutes before I was due to take William to his pretty crucial and long-awaited nephrologist appointment with the baby in tow while Matthew was going to take the other two children to school and then go on to work. [...]

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Star Wars on Facebook

December 10, 2009

I endure a lot of Star Wars, and Star Wars induced violence, in this house what with five boys and everything (if ever I wished for a girl it would be to have some solidarity against Star Wars and all things like it) but this made me laugh:

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