My love affair with Instagram continues, although I’ve realised that I am not the sort of person who whips out the camera to record our every moment. Maybe it’s practice, but I’ve found that ‘camera’ tends to equal ‘pose’ around here, so it just wrecks the spontaneity in my life. You say, “no, no, just keep doing…
Archives for October 2011
The nocturnal child
The only thing guaranteed to send me to sleep is a post about sleep deprivation. So I’m writing one. Ah, the ‘difficult sleeper’. Those kids who, no matter what you do or don’t do, they don’t sleep like they’re ‘supposed to’. They are basically nocturnal, although they won’t sleep in the daytime either. They rarely sleep through…
This week I’m grateful for… little breaks
On Sunday LOML is taking the Tsunamis up the coast to visit their Zia. I am staying at home. A whole day, just me. Just me! So, this week, I’m grateful for… 187. Little breaks – I loathe, loathe the expression ‘me time’. So let’s just say I’m very happy for little breaks from my…
Party on down: Plan
Forget outsourcing your next party because all the processed food and depressingly cheery party rooms in the world can’t beat an old-school, at home, handmade, stylish kids’ birthday party. Now, ignore the fact that after every single children’s party I have ever slaved over, my own kids say, “Can I have a Wizzyworld party next year?”…
Yummy?
Quite some time ago I wrote a Difficult People post about the Yummy Mummy that has stayed with me ever since. The comments on that post made me think about things in a different way. Yummy Mummy. Some really lovely, really cool, really sane women appeared to identify with the title ‘Yummy Mummy’. They liked…
Party do and party don’t
I love a party. Something tells me that’s hardly a secret!! There are lots of things that parents do that makes hosting a chid’s party a lot easier and things they do that annoy me to the moon and back. So I thought I might share a few yays and nays for negotiating the party circuit…
♥ Loving internet photo editing sites
A few of our lovelies asked me how I did my photo collages in my Through the Instagram post. Now, I’m not the best photographer in the world (are you tired of me saying that yet?) so any help the internet can source for me is welcome. Here are a few fab online photo sites…
This week I’m grateful for… perspective
Work has been capital T Tough the past couple of months. It’s hard to love your corporate job all the time because sometimes it just gets a bit… corporate. No matter how clever you are or how much you contribute, at the end of the day you’re made to feel like just a box on…
The posts you never have time to write
Yikes*, I’ve let my stash of scheduled posts dwindle away and I have no back-ups left. I generally write in blocks and churn out a few posts at a time to schedule for the week. Then I write once or twice on the actual day and hooray, a blog is born. Now I’m down to…
The friends you never have time to see
As we go about this life we collect some marvellous people along the way, don’t we? I know scores of people who I like so very, very much and yet… I can never seem to find the time to see them. I want to see them. I always love their company and they are friends…