silence is golden

03Nov09

I’m writing this post less than 12 hours after my last in an attempt to get ahead of the NaBloPoMo game. The past few years, my demise has always been leaving my posts till the very last minute and panicking. I felt that familiar feeling last night when I posted Day 2 with less than [...]

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stop talking and start doing

01Sep09

The more I venture outside of the parenting blog world, my eyes are opening to people doing things – things that are not parenting, writing about it and posting photographs of it.
Disclaimer: In no way am I saying that parenting, writing about it and taking pictures of it is not ‘doing things’ – [...]

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september rules

30Aug09

September 1 – Goodbye August! Don’t let the door hit your ass on your way out.
It’s a month that I haven’t enjoyed since having children. Back in the day we’d road trip, camp and hang out at the beach all day and it was all good – the whole summer days/summer nights thing, right?
But [...]

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there are two things i unsuccessfully quit a lot around here

05Aug09

Blogging and smoking. This time it’s the latter.
I quit smoking earlier this year but then I had to go seeing the moon in February with it’s massive end-of-the-world ring around it and the next day life as I’d known it changed forever. As I packed and addressed a box full of journals and children’s toys [...]

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