Three Ring Circus

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I hope I’ve taught them well.

* With kind permission from my mother*
My brother was a drug addict by the time he was thirteen.
It started with marajuana and escalated from there. His drug of choice was heroin but he was a poly drug binger and would take anything he could get his hands on.
Life was sometimes scary with a brother on […]

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The tale of the ham steaks.

I’m no idiot.
When Lily excuses herself to go to the bathroom at dinnertime and she can barely get the words out for all of the casserole she has crammed down the side of her mouth, I know exactly what she is going to do.
You do too.
She is going to spew that ‘hours over a hot […]

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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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Only in my house…

Just when you think that you can’t take anymore and that you are at breaking point, you walk down the hallway to discover this:

I love my kids!
They rock and they totally made  my day, made everything okay, if just for a small moment in time. The belly laugh was SO needed.

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Reflections.

April 2nd is always going to be a big day. It should be. It’s our son’s birthday.
After alot of worry and tears we settled on  a late lunch on the beach. We had a cake and we sang happy birthday to our angel boy.
It was sweet.
He made his presence felt with the very low fly […]

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Camping quirks

I think it’s pretty safe to say that camping and I are not a perfect match.
Stop laughing and stop saying I told you so.
When I was younger, I was a pretty mean camper. Could put up a bell tent in ten minutes, knew how to cook in a camp oven and made the best Mars […]

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From swag to circus tent

By guest (trainee) blogger, DBT
I was certainly not attempting to rip off some slapstick comedian this morning when I crawled from the tent and stood up in such a way that the awning above me shifted and dumped half a galon of rainwater down the front of my t-shirt. noooo.
Stop laughing.
I WANTED to close […]

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Questions & Fodder…

Noah and Immy were playing together and things were not going the way Noah thought they should…
Immy: “No, don’t do that Noah, that hurts Immy.”
Noah: ” No”
Immy: “I won’t play with you if you are going to do that”.
Noah: (increasingly angrier) “NO”!
Immy: “Oh well, I will just have to…”
Noah (interjecting and pointing to Immy) : […]

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Balls and the weekend we grew some.

Overheard while preparing Italian Balls (spinach and fetta arancini) ;
‘These balls are sticky’. (snigger, snigger, snigger).
‘My, those are big balls. It says your balls should be no bigger than golf ball size’.
‘Those are my balls! Don’t touch my balls!’ (Big twins enter into a Beavis and Butthead type chuckle)…
Heh
Heh Heh
Heh he heh
You said balls!
BALLS!
Hehe heh […]

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The good, the bad and the ugly.

The good;
My Parents in Law came up to visit yesterday and made me feel as though I was a partially competent parent.
My children were all ecstatic to be spending time with them.
We had a roast lamb ( with gluten free gravy).
Ivy had her first (almost) solid poo since…well, I don’t remember really… September 07, I […]