June 2010
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Write one leaf in which everybody sleeps in except...
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THE WORLD HAS SPUN ON IT’S AXIS!!
After a troubled, disturbed night, all in the house now sleep, the air filled with their breathing. Yet here I am. Awake. Resentful of their slumber. Usually this is me, dreaming away a Sunday morning, recompense for a week full of broken nights, the price I pay for being the only one who can get my child to settle.
Not this...
One birthday, three men. →
Profiteroles. L McG-E
June is a busy time for birthdays in our family.
Hub ushers in the celebrations with his big day at the beginning of the month.
Hub’s birthday…
Saturday, you are turning into Sapurday! →
… a woman palpably meant for happiness … L McG-E The Woman Who Waited. Andreï Makine
I am increasingly finding Saturday to be a challenging day. Perhaps it is as simple as it being…
A day at the beach →
Today has been another one of those days when the child who keeps the rest of us from being able to go anywhere as a family has been on a day out with her school.
I always find this amusing. Our…
Growing up. The same and different. →
My 15-year-old daughter and I were chatting this evening about the Oldest being home for the summer. In the middle of our conversation she asked how I was going to feel when they all left home.
I…
I hope you cope with the fame! Happy birthday. →
20. Happy birthday.
Twenty years ago this wonderful boy came into my life and made me a mum.
I had to make sure I kept appointments. I had to remember to make them in…
The sadness of summer solstice. →
I look forward to this day.
The longest day of the year. It’s officially summer and night is very much at bay.
I spend the time from the Winter Solstice telling myself, and everybody else…
It’s Father’s Day. →
I am profoundly aware that for a variety of reasons, not everyone has the best, if any, relationship with their father. For many that role is taken by their mother, by their step-father, or by…
Sleepy and achy and needing tea. Oh my! →
It hit me with some force this week just how long I have been unwell. Much, much longer than I had thought.
By the time I got home today I was exhausted. My only thought, I wish I could lie down…
Plan for the weekend foiled. →
Yesterday I had notice of a change to my Youngest’s meds. As I have said before, this is something that has been planned for some time.
My thought was to get my daughter started on these on…
Healthcare and meds, they’re all in a day’s work. →
I told you last Tuesday, when I got the longed for gadget, that my Youngest had another seizure.
Saturday past she had another.
Two more on Sunday
Monday one more.
It seemed clear this…
Caught out by technology →
As I’ve said before, here and elsewhere I am temporarily between mobile ‘phones.
Following an email I received this afternoon, I think it might take longer to be corrected than I originally…
To self-deprecate, or not self-deprecate? →
Quite a few years ago, someone heard me making some mild self-deprecating comments to another person. Afterwards they said to me, don’t do that, that is the thing they will remember about you, and…
Where do you want to go? →
Where do you want to go?
Or, is it, what do you want to do?
This weekend my oldest boy is in Rome with some of his friends. Lucky pup. He’s nearly 20 and celebrating the end of his second year at…
Birthdays and preconceptions →
Yesterday my Youngest came home with a slice of birthday cake from a lad who shares her school bus.
My 17 year old saw it. While we were talking about it I happened to say that it…
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Time for tea →
Time for tea
Originally uploaded by L McG-E
This morning our kettle went kaput. Hub spent ages trying to look for the stove top one we keep for just these emergencies. He…
Priorities →
Hub brought home the gadget.
He rang from the shop to say they only had the most expensive so I told him to leave it. He didn’t listen. In honesty, I can’t say I’m sorry.
The plan is to share it….
Gadgets →
I was thinking today about gadgets, how many have been launched this year and how much I love them. I’m a real sucker for a new gadget, almost to the point I’m afraid to get one when it comes out…
Gadgets →
I was thinking today about gadgets, how many have been launched this year and how much I love them. I’m a real sucker for a new gadget, almost to the point I’m afraid to get one when it comes out…