January 2007

Cue the tissues or Keira’s first day at preschool

January 31, 2007

Well, it doesn’t really count yet. This was only orientation and she can’t begin 3 year old preschool by law until April, but we’re getting closer by the day and it’s scary. It’s scary enough it’s almost February. She was very excited. Once we got there, she was running all over, checking out all the [...]

Graduation Time

January 30, 2007

*Twirling around in her metaphoric new sundress* Look at my new threads! I’d like to thank Goofy Girl for designing my new site. In some respects, I feel like I’m graduating from primary school – where I was King, in my own little sense – to big, scary High School. I’ve set myself up to [...]

The sucky part of being a parent

January 29, 2007

Yesterday, when we were down the street for a walk, I was leading Keira by the hand over the pedestrian crossing, pushing Riley in the pram, when this woman tore around the corner in her little white Barina and barrelled through, without even slowing down. Luckily, Keira and I had almost stepped off it, so [...]

Reliving our youth, two dimensional style

January 28, 2007

Adam loves Keira’s etch-a-sketch more than she does. Last night he doodled this: Me: Oh, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles! Which one is this?Adam: Uh… (thinks)…I can’t remember.Me: It’s Raphael.Adam: No, I don’t think so…Us simultaneously: Well, it can’t be Michelangelo, because he had nunchuks and he is everybody’s favourite, so that one’s easy.Adam: I think [...]

Results of the cupcake making

January 27, 2007

They look nice, don’t they? Except in making these I remembered why I don’t like packet mixes and would rather cook food from scratch. The icing sachet, when it came to making that part, was white, which I thought odd, as it was pink on the packet. So I mixed in the teaspoon of water [...]

Because if I don’t feel sorry for me, no-one else will….except you. Maybe

January 26, 2007

“I’m sitting here eating a bowl of premium choc-chip icecream, which I don’t especially want, but it temporarily distracts me from the distresing fact that I’ve just heard Riley cry himself to sleep for the sixth night in a row. He is slowly – very slowly – getting better, but his night time going to [...]

Happy Australia Day

January 25, 2007

Ah, yes our national day. The day when we gather and throw meat collectively on the BBQ and bitch about the government (moving on from Christmas when the bitching is usually family orientated). What are our family doing to commemorate the day? We’re making fairy cupcakes… I bet you didn’t see THAT one coming! For [...]

This is what misery looks like

January 25, 2007

My poor baby. Note: my skeletor veins running through my hands and arms. Yes, they’re disgusting. I’ve always looked like this. You should see me when I’m pregnant. They almost turn blue. That’s also a nice piece of carbon on my ring finger too. I mention that because I can. That’s Mommy off the Record, [...]

“Dear Me” Project – Anonymous (May 1997)

January 25, 2007

Dear Me (May 1997), Clearly, middle school is awesome. At least for now. That feeling will fade quickly, and the acceptance you’re feeling right about now will wane when you fall back into your old insecurities. Before you say anything, you’re not ugly, you’re not anorexic and you’re not weird because you couldn’t cross the [...]