Monday 4 June 2007

I knew I would suck...

You know, I knew I would suck at this blogging stuff. You must believe that I live a terribly exciting life and I have lots of things to blog about, really I do. I just can't find the time to sit when something exciting has happened. My really big problem is that, well, all the exciting things revolve around my kids, and I am pretty uncomfortable about giving details/pictures of them online. So I am stuck. Maybe one day soon I'll just confess that I am a really boring person. I still love reading blogs. How sad am I?

Thursday 17 May 2007

Such disturbing thoughts

Was discussing how cruel the world is with my hubby last night, whilst holding my innocent three month old son. He was looking up at me adoringly (son not hubby) and just smiling ...such sweetness. The other two were curled up asleep, their faces so peaceful - gently clutching their matching pink/blue bears, in the room that they share.

Can you imagine that there are people out there who do things to children, unspeakable things - things that can destroy the lives of adults when it happens to them. What do these poor children have to endure...

May all of our children sleep peacefully in their beds tonight and everynight, everywhere. May angels stand guard over them all, especially those who need to find their way home.

I pray that there is a God and that he is protecting poor Madeleine (and all other kids in the same situation) from the monster who has taken her, and I pray that God gives her the strength to get through this...or failing that, that he holds her in his safe and warm arms forever...and that he takes away all the unpleasant memories of this life and leaves her with the lovely ones...of sleeping peacefully, clutching her pink bear, with her siblings in the room that they shared.

Saturday 12 May 2007

Must Read

I have just read the most amazing post....not only is it excellent writing but it just captures what I feel in my heart. It was absolutely amazing to read - Life before knowing - you should really read it. So many things to write about but NO TIME.

Today is poor Maddy's birthday - still no word. What's up with Paris Hilton wanting a pardon...I think she should really serve her time like 'ordinary' people have to, after all if she killed someone while driving drunk they would be just as dead as if i did it. Anyway, got to run.

When I grow up I wanna write a post as good as the one above.

Tuesday 8 May 2007

Shame and Disgrace

Having children must have fried my brain, I refuse to accept that I got stupid all by myself. I am studying....yeah studying for this silly UK citizenship test. Darn. Okay so I have never been super genius or anything, but I didn't even have to study this way for my undergrad degree, my post grad degree or my professional qualification. I read stuff and it stuck, I understood and that was that. I am not a great thinker, never felt the need to reinvent the wheel.

But I have been reading the three measly chapters and well nothing too much seems to be sticking. It doesn't help that I seem to be reading the same line over and over again.

Darn. No one told me this would happen. Oh and my PMS is soooo much worse than before.

Monday 7 May 2007

Too many blogs, too little time

I read so many blogs...I am a huge lurker...I rarely comment, although I often feel inspired/uplifted/amused....by entries. Its difficult to break this cycle, but I am trying. Made three comments yesterday, on blogs that I find most entertaining. There are others - I will try today.

Sunday 6 May 2007

Poor Madeleine McCann and family

What a tragedy...poor Maddy, poor parents and siblings. As a parent of 3 wee ones myself, my heart goes out to the parents....every second must be agony, I can't imagine what they're going through. Although not particularly religious, I pray with everything that I have in me that Maddy is returned safely to her family immediately. Also that the family be given the strength to get through this and to help all the kids mend.

I wanted to remove the paragraph below from this post. In my defence I had less information than I do today (17th May)- and still, like everyone else I'm pretty much in the dark as to the details. I just wanted to say that I am sure most of you out there are excellent parents and would not risk the safety and well-being of your children. I certainly would never leave my toddlers (and I imagine even older kids) in an unlocked holiday apartment on their own. So please forgive me for giving the impression that the Mccanns behaviour was normal, I really didn't know the details when I went shooting my mouth off.

My heart still aches for poor little Maddy.



To be deleted - Its so easy for everyone to judge, but at the end of the day none of us are perfect and those of us who haven't had tragedy at our door should be
grateful for the luck rather than thinking its because we're perfect parents. If
we critically analyse some of the things we have done (they may not be obviously 'bad'), we might be less judgemental of the McCanns. At the end of the day a little innocent child is missing...either lost and confused or taken...all we can hope is that she is safely returned.

Friday 4 May 2007

Tequila

I like tequila. I like having my salt and lime, its all dramatic and stuff, but honestly I just like the taste of tequila, all by itself. Its been a long time. I like champagne cocktails, don't care for champagne itself. A sugar cube, some Angostura Bitters and yum yum champers.

My favourite cocktail - Hawaiian Volcano, it is soooo beautiful. Its smooth and lovely and warms all the way in, its just amazing, you haven't lived if you haven't tried it. It has vodka (1/2 oz), amaretto (3/4 oz), southern comfort (3/4oz), orange juice (1 & 1/2 oz) , pineapple juice (1 & 1/2 oz) and grenadine syrup (oh and a splash of lime juice). There are other combinations, but you should really try this one.

I lived for coffee, before the kids. Now I don't really like the stuff, I can take it or leave it, I prefer tea. I used to get so excited about my coffee...what a shame.

The end is near, soon there will be nothing between me and the occasional glass of wine, I hope my love for it doesn't go the way my coffee addiction went. A few more months of breastfeeding and I'll have to get reacquainted with my old friends. They may help me through the toddler years.