{Sleepless in Suburbia}
From the monthly archives:
Big E has a very active imagination for a 2 ¾ year old. He often imparts little pearls of wisdom which make me chuckle. Here is one of his more recent offerings: Thank goodness for that! The local supermarket is scary enough without the added hindrance of possible death by dinosaur!
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Sometimes I sit and think. I sit and over think. I worry about what has been, the right now and will be. I dream of what we didn’t have, don’t have, might never have. And I shouldn’t. I should be grateful for everything I’ve had, have, will ever have. We might not be wealthy in [...]
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I am sleepless, but not in Seattle. Somewhere in Yorkshire actually, as it happens. I am fast losing the ability to string a coherent (or even vaguely interesting) sentence together, and maintaining a train of thought involves many unscheduled stops with the final destination often forgotten. I have the attention span of a goldfish, and [...]
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My beautiful Little E is 12 weeks and 3 days old. She has deep blue eyes which I’m sure will turn green and her hair has a hint of red, just like her mummy. She wakes each morning, not with a cry, but happily cooing and gurgling. When I lean over the cot she smiles [...]
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Remember your life. Back before you had kids. You’d wander idly around shopping centres, slowly looking through rails of clothes. You’d enjoy a leisurely lunch and a nice coffee whilst reading a pretty glossy magazine. You’d curse parents unable to ‘discipline’ their obnoxious screaming offspring, muttering under your breath when they rammed their cumbersome buggies [...]
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Once every three weeks we go and visit my maternal Nan & Grandad on a Saturday afternoon. We take the kids and my brother. We sit in their lounge drinking the best cup of tea I’ve ever tasted and eating my Nan’s homemade fruit cake. We talk. We laugh. We reminisce. There is something missing. [...]
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I’ve been having one of ‘those’ weeks. You know, the kind where you’re bogged down in the everyday drudgery. Like I’m stuck in Groundhog Day but without the fabulous wit of Bill Murray to ease the boredom. It’s been 12 weeks since Little E made her grand entrance, and in that time I’ve not been [...]
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Meme time again. This one was sent to me by the lovely Rachel over at Really Rachel but originates with Tara over at Sticky Fingers and is known as the ‘Blame Tara Meme’. The rules are answer questions and pass it on to whoever and however many other bloggers you so desire. Easy peasy……..maybe. I [...]
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Awwwww shucks! I’ve been awarded this Meme by platespinner over at Spinning Plates. Thanks for popping my Meme cherry! The rules of the award require me to list 7 personality traits and pass the award on to 7 other fabulous bloggers. Here goes……. 1. I am a bossy boots. I put it down to being [...]
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