Take a rubber band. Stretch it. Now place it over an empty toilet paper roll. Staple it there all the way around. Now try to stretch the rubber band. This simple experiment would have helped me last night before I sewed the ruffle on the elastic neck of Elsie's Book Week Parade costume. Three weeks … Continue reading Leaving things til the last minute
My new invention: modified baby carrier
Maeve was excited when we picked up Elsie’s new birthday puppy. ‘I’m not getting a puppy, am I?’ she double-checked as we drove into the breeder’s gate. On the way, we’d shown them a photo of the pup that we were going to pick up. Elsie held the phone, looking at the photo the breeder … Continue reading My new invention: modified baby carrier
I’m sorry I didn’t do my homework but…
I haven't done any exercise or written a blog post since my last smug entry. Few reasons for that (notice I called them reasons, not excuses...): I used up all of our internet service and had to wait a week for it to renew. Yes, one of the pay-offs of living in a rural area … Continue reading I’m sorry I didn’t do my homework but…
Farewell Autumn 2014, and thank you
Do you find your Facebook newsfeed full of status updates on New Years Day bidding the previous horrible year good riddance, and hoping the new year is a better one? I like today's prompt in Clairey Hewitt's I'm Blogging Every Day in May! 'Farewell Autumn 2014, you have been…' because it forces you to look … Continue reading Farewell Autumn 2014, and thank you
One of the smallest babies to survive heads home from hospital
A photo from around the world this week that caught my eye was of a premature baby in a Melbourne newspaper. Anything to do with premature babies catches my eye. The photo from the Melbourne's Herald Sun newspaper shows baby John ready for home after 165 days in hospital. John was born at 26 weeks … Continue reading One of the smallest babies to survive heads home from hospital
Can we just have acts of kindness, not necessarily random?
I see kindness as the most important of all the things we can teach our kids. How we respect others, how we treat one another and how we think about ourselves - we talk about how to be kind with our kids, we teach them by modelling kindness, and we praise them if we see … Continue reading Can we just have acts of kindness, not necessarily random?
Now, you have my full attention
My dad opened the glove box and there it was. A carton of Marlboro Reds. Not a packet. A carton. I was 23 living in America and my parents had come to visit. Source I used to smoke for a few reasons: It made me look cool. They were really cheap in the States. And, … Continue reading Now, you have my full attention
Make yourself a cuppa and follow this link
Jimeion once had me laughing hysterically about making a cup of tea, for the same reason that Seinfeld was a great show - 'the show about nothing'. 'Share a blog that you enjoy reading' is today's prompt in Clairey Hewitt's I'm Blogging Every Day in May! I don't follow any blogs or think to read any blogs … Continue reading Make yourself a cuppa and follow this link
Are ghosts real?
We’d sit under the billiard table with blankets draped down the sides. We'd write ’yes’, ‘no’ and the letters of the alphabet on little squares of paper and put them in a circle. Then, by the torchlight, we’d all place a finger on an upturned glass in the centre of the circle. One of us … Continue reading Are ghosts real?
Writing by Larissa Patton 