Happy Holidays. This year to celebrate my girls 2nd Birthday we had our photos taken for a Christmas card and as I love supporting local businesses I would like to do a Big Shout Out Thanks to: Rachel from the Atomicbutterfly Photography. It was a challenge to get the girls to look and try to…
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Don’t say to me “I don’t know how you do it?”
Don’t say to me “I don’t know how you do it?” because I am not really interested. It pisses me off actually. It does not feel like a complement. More like, “I am glad it’s not me” kind of comment. It is about six weeks since the girls dad moved out and “I don’t know…
The Living History of Winifred Henderson
This week I am responding to one Mama Kat’s weekly prompts: Your Grandma’s story. This is especially poignant as my grandmother, Nan now lives in a nursing home and has dementia. But once not long ago, she was a vibrant, healthy and remarkable woman. When I was 14 (17 years ago!!), I had an English…
The Worlds Wimpiest Virus Human metapneumovirus hMPV
“Human metapneumovirus (hMPV)” the doctor said, two days after our late night, four-hour excursion to the emergency department with a feverish and listless 18 month old. “But don’t worry it is the women’s blouses’ of viruses…” Great. Well thanks to the test result poor Moana gave last Sunday night after two weeks of upper respiratory…
I wish I was a housewife then we could all eat cake
Yesterday I tried to cheer us all up by baking a chocolate cake. Adelaide and my partner are sick and I though a nice cake would be a welcome activity in the house when money is tight and we are all house bound. Now, I am no housewife and I know sometimes my partner wishes…
Grocery shopping with Twins
The girls are now 15 months old and still not walking so grocery shopping alone is impossible without some help. I usually leave the shopping to N as he is a better one with the grocery budget but as he is just out of hospital from back surgery it is now a family affair. Nether-the-less…
New Year, new diary, new daycare, old job and buggered back
The new year has certainly now swung into action. This week marks the first full week of back to work. The girls started their new daycare today. After the daycare hiatus last November we found a spot for two days. N and I dropped them off at 7am. Although the centre opened at 6am they…
The 1974 Brisbane Floods are no longer a once in a lifetime event
As I write this post the sunshine is out and it is hard to believe what has been happening in Brisbane these past few days. After months of terrible weather, rain and rain – the floods started up north Queensland and slowly moved south to the catastrophe in Toowoomba, Ipswich and Grantham, Lockyer Valley and…
Christmas Holidays and food and photos
So I bit the bullet and bought a new Apple iMac before Christmas. I confess I didn’t quite have all of the money so I have a credit card bill to start off in 2011. I still have two weeks of annual leave to enjoy but this Summer has been miserable. Most of Queensland is…
Famous Multiple Mums I am fascinated with
All mums are amazing whether you have had one or ten children (actually more than ten children these days sounds a little neglectful but that is for another blog post) but it is the multiple mums I love to hear from the most. At the moment we are all waiting to hear of the pending…
