Month: May 2011

Tonight as I was walking up the street to pick up Juniordwarf from after-school care, I noticed a flock of birds doing laps in the sky above me.  I’d noticed it last week as well and had wondered if this was something they did every day at about 5.00...

Today I wasn’t feeling much better than I was yesterday. A couple of people suggested a hot toddy (or three) as a remedy for my cold, or at least to make me feel better temporarily. Or possibly taste so bad that I momentarily forget how unhealthy I feel. I’d...

Today was a day of rest for me. After thinking on Saturday I’d recovered from what I thought was a pretty run of the mill cold, I spent yesterday feeling rather unwell. I got up this morning to go to work, had a shower, realised I was never going...

I had a lovely day today, despite being a bit knocked about by a lingering cold that I thought had almost gone, but that made a triumphant return to my life this morning. Juniordwarf gave me a little stash of presents, which he helped me to open. (What that...

I’ve had my new scrapbooking space for a couple of weeks now, but so far I’ve been too busy marvelling at how great it is to have my own space to actually make use of it. Well that’s pretty silly isn’t it?! So today I decided to tackle a...

Earlier in the week, Juniordwarf told me he’d made a flower at school. I said that sounded lovely, and asked if he was going to bring it home so I could see it. He said no. I didn’t give it much more thought, and then today when I picked...

Juniordwarf and I went to a party at his daycare centre to celebrate the centre’s tenth anniversary in its current premises. He had a great time showing me around, pointing out his friends, eating apple slices (yes kids, he has started eating fruit!), jumping on the jumping castle and...

I mentioned Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project earlier this year. It’s a great book and I’ve been following Gretchen’s blog for a while, but have to admit that I haven’t been putting a lot of the strategies into practice. One idea I recently came across on the Happiness...

For the last three years Juniordwarf and I have participated in activities run by the local Salvation Army under the Communities for Children banner. Communities for Children is a program funded by the Federal Government and provides support and programs for families with children aged 0-12. There was a...

Now that I have my new scrapooking space, I thought I should sort through the bags full of paper and half-finished layouts that I’ve been accumulating and get them in some sort of order. So I tipped them all out of the floor and sorted out the layouts in...