Two pieces of good news ( Read more... )

Teds Photographics is doing 8c prints until Nov 24. You can upload them to their webpage to have them printed and either posted to you or pickup from your nearest store (there are two in Civic, one in Belco is currently closed thanks to the renovations). Or you can just go into the shop with your digital memory device of photographic choice ( Read more... )

Mark has come down sick, and Tali has spiked a significant temp (she's all sluggish, has just crashed out on the couch) so we're not going to be firetwirling tonight so won't need a babysitter. Poor munchkins ( Read more... )

Is anyone available to watch our girls on Saturday night? Mark and I are planning to do some firetwirling out at a camp for the Canberra Blind Society and it'd be nice if we didn't have to lug the girls out and about late at night. We could plausibly stay overnight there but we've got a lot to do over the weekend so it'd be a bit easier if we just ( Read more... )

Our fridge has died... or at least semi-died. It's a fridge-freezer, separate doors for each. The fridge is room temperature, the freezer happily freezes things. Mark is baffled because it should just be one system and the vents seem to be functioning fine. And there don't seem to be any repair guys specifically for our brand of fridge. Given the ( Read more... )

I still have a bit of space left in the box I'm posting off to Tristan's family, so if anyone has any more hats to contribute they'd be happily welcome ( Read more... )

I just got the results from Violet's blood tests earlier in the week; all results came back clear. This means no measles ( Read more... )

Baby Charlie passed away this morning (our time), cuddled skin to skin snuggled in with his parents.
Quietly, painless.

Thank you for your prayers. His parents and his older brother need all the gentle love and support they can get.
I can still barely imagine their grief.

My eyes are aching.
Baby Charlie, the 3 month old who contracted bacterial meningitis. An MRI has shown he has severe brain damage. The family has had to make the heartbreaking decision to turn off the life support.
I wish there were more I could do.
Please pray, and send strength.
It's all so wrong. And after a day of crying I'm kinda numb right

I don't want to lose this link, don't want to forget it, and desperately want to share it. More than anything I want to remember it for my girls.
It had me in tears by the end.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6wJl37N9C0