Three Ring Circus

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Motherhood…

Mother’s Day is coming and, usually, I look forward to a day of being spoiled and totally feeling like the world’s best mother but this year?
This year I don’t feel like the world’s best anything.
In fact I feel like sh*t.
The last few weeks have really knocked my confidence, as a mother.
I feel as though I am  […]

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Home again.

We are finally home again after five long days of hospital and I really don’t know where to start.
Ivy’s bloods are all back within normal ranges now. Her haemoglobin is 111g/L. Her levels for the haemolysis is on the high end of normal(read only just). Her electrolytes, liver function and iron studies all normal.
She grew […]

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Weekly Winners

Wow that week went fast! All I have for you this week are the photos that I took last Sunday. The big girls and the toddlers went to the beach, while Dave fixed Mum’s computer and the boys stayed to watch the football with their grandfather.
There are so many fantastic photography entries for this weekly […]

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We don’t need to pack a bag … BZZZT!

Dave writes: 
We fails it (it is staying out of hospital).
 Yes, Ivy has returned to hospital today. Just in time for the long weekend. So it’s a good thing we didn’t make any plans.  Besides, the weather is lousy.
A lingering infection, unresponsive to oral antibiotics. Also murmurs of a new immunosuppressant drug to try … if […]

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Courage through sharing.

 
This post was written as part of the Finding Courage Through Sharing project over at In The Life Of A Child.  
Ivy - born at 30 weeks, blistered rash, cow’s milk protein intolerant, lactose intolerant, eczema, nasty reflux, nasty poo, failure to thrive.
Nothing to worry about, nothing to fear. She’s a prem, it’s the medication, it’s just Ivy.
Ivy - […]

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Red & yellow & pink & blue…

Red is the colour that Ivy’s blood cells should be. Big fat juicy blood cells, plump with haemoglobin and oxygen. Red is the colour of blood that she may need now to correct this mess.
Red is the colour I see when I can’t get the doctors to help my girl.
Yellow was the colour of her skin […]

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Car by association.

Noah loves cars.
Loves them.
He is, quite simply, a car head.
Like his father - who can identify the type of car at night by the shape of the headlights. (Scary but true).
Noah identifies each and every person by the kind of car they drive and addresses them accordingly…
He doesn’t know the type (yet) but he has named […]

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Monday moaning.

I was talking (read email) with a friend last night and she asked me when I was going to start a blog so that I could say all the things I would like to say but can’t on this one.
She said it because so much has gone wrong in the last few days with Ivy’s health and […]

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Weekly Winners…

These winners span over a couple of weeks.
Hope Lotus doesn’t mind too much.  You should pop over to her blog for more wonderful photos. Go on, what have you got to lose?
It was a busy fortnight.
We had an angel day…
 
and a balloon release to remember our boy.

Walking to the cemetery…

Some of the headstones date back […]

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“Davey Oliver”

We were watching Jamie Oliver on the TV the other night.
We love his ‘bwilliarnt’ accent. Yeah?
Especially Dave. He likes to imitate Jamie and does a pretty good job of it.
Anyhow, Jamie was making this odd broad bean paste (on a side note, does anyone - besides my mother, actually like broad beans?) and he was […]