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Coincidence? 2 Jan 2012 | 06:27 pm
Mr7 is intrigued by death. Not so unusual I think. He began to understand his own mortality a year or two ago and it's driven in part by the deaths of my bio children. Both the kids know of them, see ...
The gutwrenchingness of being shy 3 Dec 2011 | 11:32 pm
I was invited to a school mum dinner for tonight. I felt like I wasn't really who they wanted there. One afternoon at school a mum invited another mum to this thing while standing about five feet from...
What's 30 years or so? 11 Aug 2011 | 12:30 am
This is the day, 30 years ago, that I sat in a hospital bed, confused, bemused, besotted... At 1:49am on August 10th 1981 I gave birth to JC. Some 6 weeks premature, very small even for that gestation...
Things aren't always what they seem 7 Jun 2011 | 11:45 pm
I have a friend who lost a whole year of her life. She'll never get that back. The physical reminders of that year are a tracheotomy scar and the weight she still needs to lose. The emotional ones are...
Happy places 1 Jun 2011 | 01:09 am
I was replying to a comment on this post and made a reference to when I used to pick JC up from creche. I can't recall having blogged about it so I decided I would collect some of the happiest memorie...
The little things 25 May 2011 | 12:55 am
I'm someone who copes. Life deals me shit, I deal with it. I don't complain a whole lot nor spend time thinking I'm hard done by. Not enough time in my life to waste doing that. That's not to say I do...
Sunday Session 9 Jan 2011 | 03:39 pm
Just for Thea at Do I really want to blog? I'll do a Sunday session & link :) This is Thea's explanation and her current Sunday session is here. On Sundays I pop two favourite songs onto my blog. A...
Ipod shuffle 2 Jan 2011 | 01:50 am
The gorgeous Bern Morley over at So now what? posted the challenge of sharing the first fifteen songs that come up when you hit shuffle. So here goes... (Bern linked videos and everything so I'll give...
I'll keep being the bigger person 25 Dec 2010 | 12:42 am
I was married for over 28 years. In that time we went on one holiday. Dunk Island for our 5th wedding anniversary. It was paid for out of some money I inherited from my grandfather. My husband organiz...
Hump day happiness 7 Oct 2010 | 01:23 pm
Wonder if I'll manage to capture a whole week of happiness :) Naomi over at Under the yardarm posts her Hump day happinessness on a Wednesday but this week she went "airline" and posted the next day, ...
