Tag: random musings
member name: Sarah L.
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December 24, 2006 04:33 PM EST --
I was HUGE! Little Sophie Jade (’bubs’ at the time) was curled up in the warmth of my womb waiting to make her arrival. My due date, of 21 December, had been and gone and I felt about as . . . more
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January 13, 2007 02:01 AM EST --
'Why is she pulling at your swimming costume?'
'She's probably thirsty.'
'But doesn't she drink from a bottle yet?' she said, as though drinking milk from a bottle was . . . more
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March 29, 2008 08:29 PM EDT --
I have a little bench, outside our backdoor. It's sheltered from the wind and rain and it's where I like to sit and think. I look up at the changing sky, the mostly ever-green trees . . . more
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February 21, 2007 02:38 AM EST --
Friends often ask, “Do you get much time to yourself?” And I smile contentedly and reply, “Not really, but that is fine with me.” But this answer is not strictly true. It is not . . . more
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December 27, 2006 05:07 AM EST --
I haven't slept for longer than four hours at a time in over three years, but I am not complaining as I this is the life I choose to lead.
After the children have gone to bed I grab at the chance . . . more
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January 04, 2007 04:50 AM EST --
Just before New Year's Eve I dreamed of a rose growing around the pine tree that stands tall and erect in our garden. It was the most magnificent rose I had ever seen. It's stem encircled . . . more
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January 04, 2007 04:15 AM EST --
Just before New Year's Eve I dreamt of a rose growing around the pine tree that stands tall and erect in our garden. It was the most magnificent rose I had ever seen. It's stem encircled . . . more
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January 08, 2007 02:55 AM EST --
After a two-week holiday my husband went back to work today. We all felt a bit depressed and it was up to me to put on a brave face for the girls. A morning at the gardens started out fine . . . more
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December 23, 2006 04:15 AM EST --
We were out the other day and I realised, that for over an hour, I hadn’t needed to intervene in a potential ‘bust up’, to guide Charlotte’s behaviour or even to be her best buddy. . . . more
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May 13, 2007 05:32 AM EDT --
We give all that we can give. We love with all our hearts. Living with children in our midst, we are living with angels. Each action we take is reflected back ten-fold. Children are from heaven and . . . more
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September 27, 2007 06:25 AM EDT --
Today was a day like millions of other stay-at-home parents around the world, but does that make it any less remarkable?
Children wake up every morning with driven curiosity and grasp at every opportunity . . . more
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December 22, 2006 02:15 AM EST --
Whilst Christmas shopping for the girls today I couldn’t help but be disturbed by the stereotyping of girls vs boys toys, or that there should even be a blatant division between the two in the first . . . more
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December 11, 2007 05:10 AM EST --
This morning was an exciting one for me, personally, as a very good friend moved back to Wellington after four year’s in Australia. Wellington , New Zealand , has a magnetism to it that draws . . . more
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April 02, 2008 05:21 AM EDT --
I've not been so well these past few days and my dearest neighbour knocked on my door this afternoon and offered to take Charlotte out for the afternoon. She was my angel today.
But . . . more
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