Earlier in the year I started a book I called my ten things book; the first entry in the book was titled "10 Things to Do in 2005". I've had a pretty shocking start to the year but here is what the first entry looked like:

1: Sponsor a child through World Vision (since then I've heard bad reviews via a friend and may reconsider and choose another ( Read more... )

Once again it's been far too long between journal entries ( Read more... )

Just in from a WILD night out on the town. Okay, so it wasn't THAT wild, it was however the first time I've been OUT in ages ( Read more... )

When I have not written it is safe to assume that all is not going well.

I feel like I have no control. I'm not loosing control I've lost it and it's long gone.

That's just how I feel right at this moment in time.

I cannot describe it, cannot begin to put it into words.

I feel very alone
Very fragile, at the moment.
Like I need
to be cared for,
but I don't know why.
A sense of foreboding
seems too powerful
a description,
for what I feel,
confused.

I have a prediction for the future ( Read more... )

We had a great time down at the beach, shortly after we got there is started to rain. Also shortly after we got there Rhiannan inevitably needed to go to the toilet. I took Rhiannan for a "wee walk" to try to find a toilet but we couldn't find one, as the rain started to fall harder Rhiannan started to whinge so I began to sing to her. I'm no ( Read more... )

Another day another journal entry :)

This afternoon I took the kids (our four plus our nephews Corey and Chad) with Aunty joolliee and Uncle Chris to Fleay's Wildlife Park. A good part of the park is closed for upgrading at the moment so it was fortunate that we only left home after lunch time and hadn't planned to spend the whole day there. We saw ( Read more... )

I just spent half an hour scrubbing our dining table clean of paint, glue and glitter, last month the mere sight of all that mess would've had me spontaneously reduced into a crying, quivering mess. This evening as I scrubbed and scraped and cleaned I was glad to do it, it reminded me of yet another great day with the kids and all the beautiful ( Read more... )

Yesterday afternoon we (myself, joolliee, Sarah, Liam and Rhiannan) took a trip out to Ipswich to visit the art gallery. Ipswich Art Gallery is a GREAT place to go for something to do with kids. Firstly and most importantly it is FREE, secondly the Gallery offers exhibitions of children's artworks (the kind you'd normally only see in a classroom) the ( Read more... )