Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the Daily life category.
I don’t think…
Filed in Daily life, July 17, 2008, 2:18 pm…that the child in my house who took to this Barbie with my leg razor will have a successful career in hairdressing.
Do you?
Love sick
Filed in Daily life, Ivy - girl, too cute, July 16, 2008, 4:46 pmShe wanders out to the kitchen, a look of urgency on her face.
“You take me” she directs,
“you take me to the hospital”.
“Why?” I ask.
She rushes down the hallway and I follow. She has picked up her Dorothy the Dinosaur handbag and starts to pack it.
A plastic mobile phone, a pair of undies (important when you […]
School holidays just got a whole lot harder.
Filed in Daily life, pre teen angst, toddlers, July 9, 2008, 10:02 amDoes anyone else find the Winter school holidays hard?
It’s cold.
It’s a stay inside kind of season.
Traditionally we do the kinds of things that keep us warm and dry.
Movies.
Bowling.
Cooking.
Craft.
Today we wanted to do something, get out of the house.
Anyone who has been reading for a year, might remember when we attempted the movies last year. It […]
Eggs.
Filed in Daily life, blah blah blah, July 3, 2008, 11:08 amSo, in obvious Winter news, the kids have all been sick.
*sigh*
I know.
As boring for me as it is for you, dear readers.
Yesterday was spent in a turmoil driven cleaning frenzy of snot, slobber and vomit.
The cherubs have what I think is a tonsil related illness, with the added bonus of a cold and all the big kids […]
Three day blues…
Filed in Daily life, blah blah blah, June 28, 2008, 6:44 pmThe sun shone so brightly today.
In the Winter sunshine the voices of the children’s choir lifted into the blue sky.
So blue and clear that I felt I could whisper my thoughts upwards and they would evaporate into organza swirls of white, consumed by the vastness of the day.
I am tired today and I can’t seem […]
Gluten free goodness.
Filed in Daily life, June 16, 2008, 9:54 pmNelson: (white dog of minimal intelligence) ”Help me, Linus, I can’t see! Someone… anybody?”
Linus:(black dog, of equal or less intelligence) ”Ah, ya wasteoid, ya tweeker, you’ve been dropping gluten free biscuits again, haven’t ya?”
Nelson: “No! It’s not what you think! I tripped and fell into the box!”
Don’t worry animal lovers, no dogs were harmed in the making […]
Crazier still.
Filed in Daily life, June 13, 2008, 2:13 pmI got a haircut.
Me.
Hairdresser phobic me.
What is it with all those mirrors, anyway?
Why are there so many of the damn things?
While we are on the subject, why do hairdressers ask what type of cut we want? I never went to haircutting school. I don’t know anything about layers or razoring or anything much more than ‘a […]
Starstruck.
Filed in Daily life, Immy, Maddy, June 12, 2008, 8:44 amImogen and Madeline are both slaves to the performing arts.
Much like I was in my younger years. Oh yes, my friends, I was not always The Old Woman Who Lived In The Shoe, I used to love all things thespian, as my mother will proudly tell anyone who will listen. I sang and danced and […]
I’ll have the house salad, thanks.
Filed in Daily life, toddlerhood, too cute, too funny, June 3, 2008, 7:00 amTake one Mummy, confine her to the laundry.
Get into her ribbon stash (that another chef has neglected to pack away) and pull Every. Single. Ribbon from its roll and call it ‘pasta’.
Take scrapbooking cardboard flowers (hundreds of the little suckers) from the back room, sprinkle a few into the ‘bowl’ you have aquired from the […]
All this and then…
Filed in Daily life, The Boy, hurting, May 30, 2008, 5:06 pmIvy made it through the night but left in the wake of a sleepless, sick child, is her mother, who feels barely a human, let alone a human capable of looking after many.
My washing machine ( a most valuable tool in a house of nine) decided to break, as if in sympathy for my broken […]
