In glorious technicolour… ta-da! Yip. That’s your brain. You think I’m kidding? Well I’m not. It goes like this… My bag died a slow, nasty death. It started with the handle slowly detaching itself, first one side, then the other. After that, it suffered a chronic zip failure and it was pretty much downhill from there. So […]
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Dancing kittens
Or should that be… dancing AND kittens. My writing has had to wait a bit this week for two good reasons. Technically four. We’ve added 3 kittens to our household. I know… 3! Eek! But the equation is simple maths – 3 kids = 3 cats. It’s the only way it’s ever going to work. […]
Read moreThe one that got away
I had a plan for today. I really did. It was rather good too. It involved getting kidlets off to school, then a solid hour writing stint on my project 2, some choreography for dance group tonight and quietly wrapping my brain around cutting our music for the dance we’re working on. After that was off […]
Read moreDon’t throw rocks into valleys
Today was one of those icky days that I’d rather not repeat. Ever. I lost my kid. Mercifully, I got her back – but this is what happened. My 13yo (you can see her hands in the pic above) was keen to do the Surfers Challenge with two of her friends. Unlike the name suggests, it’s a […]
Read moreWatch this baby dance!
These are my baby’s feet from Sunday, painted and printed at children’s church. I call her my baby, but in truth she is 4-going-on-16, designed purely to keep me mentally agile. Wow can that little girl argue! Somewhere out there, is a lawyers cap with her name on. We have so much fun together. And yes, my […]
Read moreOn being grown up and not getting swallowed…
It’s time for me to face facts. I’m desperately keen to dive in and lose myself in the world of ‘Finding Amy’, (my second novel for those who may not be following my compelling *snigger* saga.) The brutal truth is… I have two other projects that I need to finish first. Its a simple dinner before […]
Read moreSetting fire to rainy pavements
My girls have gone bonkers over Adele. They spend the afternoons belting out her songs at the top of their voices with varying degrees of success. Even the 4yo manages the angst and the volume (!) though the words are a liquidized smoosh of bad-a-baaaaaa, wop wop… This is all good, I enjoy her music. There […]
Read moreEmbrace the Chaos
Tomorrow is the last day of holidays before my 3 kidlets head off back to school and I start my rounds of furious hat-swapping. I’ve loved being home, I really have. At times I’ve wished kids came standard with a mute button… but I doubt I’m the only mom on the planet who has hankered after that. So… school […]
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Hey! Hush and wait your turn.
Its quite normal for me to have 3 small people, AKA my kids, all talking to me at the same time at any given time of the day or night. Sometimes my brain successfully follows all three threads, and can produce reasonably intelligent responses at more or less the right times. Other times? Well, lets just say […]
Slice ‘n Dice – tackling this messy thing called “life”
Don’t know about you, my life refuses to play along. No sooner do I think I’ve nailed it to the floor, when it wriggles and morphs and evades my desperate clutches… again… I want to be organised, productive and fruitful in everything I do. I want to bounce out of bed each morning, slaughter a […]
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