Rage against the machine

Reality bites

Monday, February 21st, 2011

Today I dropped off the children at daycare and OOSH at a time early enough for them to have breakfast there.  Next week when I return to work it will be even earlier. I will be that parent dropping her year one child off before seven am and then waiting outside the daycare centre until [...]

Overcoming inertia

Friday, September 24th, 2010

Tell me……in an attempt to get back to blogging should I just force myself to do daily mini posts a la my Facebook updates or would it be better to attempt a massive update so that all those precious kidlet milestones aren’t lost? How do you translate the endless to do lists into proper action [...]

Go read a shiny happy blog instead

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

Allow me to put aside the kidlets for a post or two because I am about to have a bloody great big whinge. It has been four years since I’ve last had my body to myself- and in some of that time I have been both pregnant and breastfeeding- and I’m completely. burnt. out. Breastfeeding [...]

Meaningful or meaningless?

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008

Hi there? How’s things? Nice weather we’re having…. Um. So I’ve been a whole lot of nutcase a little bit craazzy of late.  I’d blame the French, except they’re not the ones still waking me up for a feed once or twice a night now that they are in their own room. No names mentioned, [...]

Not that you needed to know

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Everything is not fucking fine. Let’s leave it at that shall we?

Postcards from the edge

Friday, August 8th, 2008

To whom it may concern at Huggies Inc, I have lined your pockets with many dollars over the past three and a half years, initially because of the fact that the scary plasti-chemical combo you include in your nappies is the only one not to give my oldest daughter nappy rash. So please tell me [...]

There goes my crack at immortality

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

I discovered my first two grey hairs this morning. As I frantically ripped the little fuckers from my head it occurred to me that I have no idea how long they have been there, or how many others there are that I just can’t see with my obviously age related failing eyesight. Which leads me [...]