August 2010
28 posts
Another confession. (I hope this isn’t catching.) →
I have a confession. I’m in a really bad mood today. Really.
It’s also the third day of bad moods. Even I’m fed up with myself by now. Here’s the confession, it’s more than a little possible I’m…
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Forecast: It's odd out today.: Features →
When people start discussing their best features, I become very uncomfortable. Anyone who lives with a chronic condition knows how difficult it is to maintain a positive attitude toward your own body. I mean, if your body turns against you, then why should you care about it? That was how I thought…
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Jann, you are beautiful. You are warm, funny, generous and kind.
You give to and...
Post decorating doldrums. →
Tea and Welsh cakes at the in-laws’. © L McG-E. All rights reserved.
Actually, I’m not even sure doldrums is the right word but whatever it is, we’re in the middle of it. Perhaps it’s…
Today is brought to you by, YAY!!! We’ve finished... →
Dahlia. © L McG-E. All rights reserved.
Oh. dear. goodness.
I am exhausted and I’m not the one who did most of it. Hub looks pale and drawn, 15 has almost collapsed in a heap on her…
Some days all you can hope is to learn your... →
I suppose it is inevitable. You get on with redecorating, well, Hub and the kids get on with it, and then you come to the looking for new furniture bit. Your kids aren’t babies anymore so you tell…
Honestly, I am next to useless. →
Today we’re half way through our week’s holiday and there is still lots to do.
This morning Hub needed a break from decorating and took 12 down to her grandparents for an hour. 15 went with them,…
Yes, you can have too much pink. →
Lavender and bee © L McG-E
This week Hub and I have been on leave from work. We’re not off anywhere exciting, we’re up to our necks in paint.
Our older daughter and younger son need…
Monday, Monday, must be sort out everything day. →
Today is the first day of Hub and my holidays. It hasn’t gone anywhere near as planned, when does it ever?
This is supposed to be Decorate The Kids’ Rooms Week, so far only the barest of inroads in…
It’s Sunday so it must be confession time. →
I have a confession, when I was little and right up until a few years ago I had a terrible habit. I had to correct people and always tell people what I thought on any given subject.
Neither were…
Have yourself a medicated birthday. →
Yesterday was Youngest’s birthday. 12 years of fun and frolics, or frantic times and stretched patience.
I wasn’t really the World’s most patient person before I had her. I would get…
Remind me to keep my mouth closed. →
Overblown peony © L McG-E. All rights reserved.
On Wednesday we took our daughter to her long awaited appointment with her neurologist.
One of the great things about continuity of…
Have yourself a medicated birthday. →
Yesterday was Youngest’s birthday. 12 years of fun and frolics, or frantic times and stretched patience.
I wasn’t really the World’s most patient person before I had her. I would get…
Waiting and walking and not liking what I hear. →
Today we finally got to see Youngest’s neurologist. It’s been a long wait. We last saw her September 2009 and were told at the end of the appointment that we would be seen again in four months.
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I said, “can”. I didn’t mean, “do first”. →
Every month of so I have to order some materials for my daughter. Due to their nature and how they are packaged, I write on the delivery instruction part of the web order form, “can leave round…
Sometimes it would be good if the only hold-back... →
If only a picture had scent. ©L McG-E
It’s an absolutely beautiful day today. Hub has a meeting this afternoon in a nearby town, the journey is scenic, the town itself small but has…
It’s good for the soul, apparently. →
Sunflower. ©L McG-E
I have a confession, sometimes I like to complain about going to the in-laws’ every Sunday but the reality is, I actually get some time to myself when we…
Balancing parenting and us-time. →
Tea in coffee cups. © L McG-E
One of the most difficult things, if you do most of your parenting without extra help, is getting a chance to spend time with your partner. If you are…
Someone’s had a busy Friday. →
A couple of days ago we had notification that 15 needed some booster jabs. This morning she was due to get them. Due to the wonderful way youngest behaves when she is out, Grandma offered to take…
A good time at the oddest time. →
This morning 15 was telling about injuries she had received, completely self-inflicted, at times when I was away from home. The first was when she and the boys were staying with their grandparents…
Not louder, just more clearly. Please. →
Last night, as arranged, we went to the cinema. I found myself laughing, in places, despite myself, at the new A-Team film. It wasn’t wonderful, but then the original was more kitsch than class….
OK, so maybe Hub isn’t the only one. →
Yesterday I wrote that Hub feels less at ease with Youngest going to respite than do I. Well, perhaps he isn’t the only one.
Today I started getting Youngest’s clothes and other overnight…
Sore backs, fractious kids and utter, utter... →
One thing I have found with Youngest is, she gives me much less hassle than she does her Dad. Perhaps it’s because I’ve been home more with her. Perhaps because I’ve been more firm while Dad is a…
Musical chairs and bad jokes. →
I saw today how children see things so differently to adults. I saw two young girls who wanted to swap seats. They rose, lifted their chair and tried to push past each other. When I told them to put…
Tea and cookies. →
Some evenings are sit down with a book and a cuppa and relax evenings, yesterday was one. So I went with it, and why not?
Youngest is going back to respite on Monday. Hub and the boys…
Pet free, not for the want of pleading. →
Meg – Islwyn It’s a Kind of Magic.
We are, as a family, bereft of pet. This isn’t a situation I intend to change in the near future.
We have had pets. Lots of them.
Letting it happen. →
Driftwood by Aled Lewis Evans
I really admire creative people. People who see the world a particular way and are able to express that. People who are brave enough to take the…
Helmets and crashpads. Please! →
Wentloog. © L McG-E
This afternoon we thought we’d chance an outing with Youngest. Or rather, I badgered Hub into going out for a drive.
I grabbed the camera, just in case.
We…
Happy birthday, Dad. →
Dad.
Today would have been my father’s 84th birthday.
I tried to think of a memory to share here. One thing that would sum up the man. I find it impossible, not because I…