tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61108619045973495822024-03-13T09:01:55.871+01:00Pampelmuse and MeClare Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15356519337228174440noreply@blogger.comBlogger654125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110861904597349582.post-60983429180390779662014-04-21T15:11:00.000+02:002014-04-21T15:11:13.488+02:0012-16/52<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/clare_b_photos/13947944462" title="20140405_Hammock, Apple Picking_003 by Clare B, on Flickr"><img alt="20140405_Hammock, Apple Picking_003" height="533" src="https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7272/13947944462_249cd8ea1a_o.jpg" width="800" /></a>
E: Apple picking at the farm in the delightful Autumn sunshine.<br />
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E: In the 'hanging mat' at the farm. One of the delights of you learning English and German has been your mistranslations of words learnt in one language but not the other. I need to remember to write them down because they disappear all too quickly.<br />
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E: "I'm a good chef Mama. I cooking fish and chips with caramel. Would you like some? Wet or dry?" I told you I liked caramel (in my easter eggs) and since then it has been a necessary addition to every meal cooked in your restaurant.<br />
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Falling behind in the posting, but I'm still managing to keep up on the taking of photos. E is becoming an increasingly difficult subject to capture; a reluctant and mostly defiant subject with an innate sense of how to move out of frame. I'm being forced to step back. Having said that, this last shot is one of my favourites.</div>
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I had one of those remarkable fortnights where my computer malfunctioned, I ignored it, it broke a bit more and then eventually and rather reluctantly I took it to the shop where, knowing it was off warranty, I would likely have to pay some ridiculous amount for the repair. When I got there the repairman mumbled something about "running some diagnostics" before shaking his head and telling me it was a hardware problem not a software problem. It took me a few seconds to work out what this meant and it is quite possible that I may have tuned out a little as I said a prayer to the computer-gods because a new computer was not part of the 2014 budget. The next thing I heard was "Australian consumer law... blah, blah, blah... no cost to you... blah, blah... we can also replace your computer screen... 10-14 days if you leave it with us now". Um... okay. So there it was, no computer for two weeks but a fixed trackpad, new screen and no questions asked. Computer-gods you'll make a believer out of me yet! </div>
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This year, more than any other, I find myself using this day to take stock. It is, perhaps, with a weary heart that I find ever more reasons to believe that this day, Women's Day, matters. My beloved country, Australia, seems to be going backwards, not forwards in terms of women's rights. Tony Abbott, the lack of women in parliament, the failure of Mary Wooldridge to be pre-selected for the Victorian safe seat of Stonnington and the ongoing lack of adequate and appropriate maternity and childcare support are reminders of how far we have to go. It is tempting to look at the seemingly insurmountable obstacles and think that it's all too hard. Or that it doesn't matter, because mostly we live in nice houses with nice families and nice jobs. But it does matter and if we stick together and keep talking and agitating and pushing for change; if we keep supporting the good leaders and stop supporting the bad; if we say yes to equal pay; yes to maternity leave; yes to the collective - maybe, just maybe when I sit down to write this post next year it will be with heartfelt joy that we have collectively move just a little bit closer to where we want to be.<br />
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E: Sleeping by our bedside. I keep having to remind myself that you will not being doing this when you are 18, but it would be nice to have our bedroom back.<br />
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A week behind. Starting work full-time with a long commute both ways caught up with me this week. After the initial buzz of a new job and new rhythm, the reality of our new 'normal' hit me. I'm sometimes not home until 7pm and then we head full tilt into dinner, bath and bedtime before turning around and getting ready for the next day. Relaxed meal planning has been replaced by weekly 'menus' with an emphasis on slow cooked meals that can cook through the day and be ready to serve when E and M get home at five. At the moment I feel like we're walking a delicate tightrope between order and chaos.</div>
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1. Cheese boards slowly melting at f<a href="http://www.fromageatrois.com.au/">romage a trois</a>; it was ridiculously hot, but the cheese and cider were delicious!<br />
2. E ever so slowly cruising on her bike in the early morning sun.<br />
3. The bright, bright colours of a flowering gum.<br />
4. We've been spending our weekends at Williamstown beach. The bay is shallow and gentle - perfect for sitting and just watching the world pass by.<br />
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E: All cheek, both in mind and body. After much discussion you decided you wanted to get your hair cut. It took all my strength as a mother to allow you this choice - I have so very much loved your pigtails.<br />
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E: Fish, Chips, Sauce. I think, if give the choice, you would eat this every meal for the rest of your life.<br />
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Clare Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15356519337228174440noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110861904597349582.post-30634902141196401242014-01-28T11:11:00.000+01:002014-01-28T11:11:00.453+01:00Keeping Cool<div style="text-align: justify;">
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I'm solo-parenting at the moment. M is away for two weeks and it's me and E ruling the roost. I'd love to tell you about all the fun we're having but to be honest it's doing my head in. E does not cope with change very well (what kid does?) and there have been too many changes in her life recently. Tantrums and outright disobedience are a regular occurrence and I find myself caught in that tricky situation of not wanting to reward bad behaviour but needing to reprimand for safety's sake. It's a tricky line to walk and this week I feel like I'm failing. I keep having to remind myself to be gentle - on her and on me - this solo-parenting thing is no walk in the park but neither, I'm sure, is being two. Gentle. Calm. Cool. This will be my mantra as the temperatures rise this week. Just like the heatwave this solo-parenting gig will end too and in the meantime I'll keep sipping my mint/lemon tea and try to keep my head cool.</div>
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E: it's been such a big week, too many changes all at once. But today, oh today! You let loose with your cousins and you smiled and laughed and everything felt good.<br />
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E: Showering by yourself. "I big now Mama. I don't need you anymore." Slow down, sweet girl. Don't move so fast.<br />
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Linking up with <a href="http://www.practisingsimplicity.com/">Jodi</a>.</div>
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E: Television has slowly crept into our afternoon rituals; episodes of Spot and Peppa Pig while we're busy cooking dinner and you're too tired for anything else.</div>
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Clare Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15356519337228174440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110861904597349582.post-80206338972812740552014-01-13T04:08:00.000+01:002014-01-13T04:08:00.753+01:00The 52 project<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been thinking a lot about what to do with this blog. I dipped in and out of this space in 2013, wanting to be here, but not quite knowing how. The transition back to Australia, into motherhood and back to work has not been easy. Like many women I have struggled to find my voice. At some point in 2013 I stumbled across Jodi's blog <i>practicing simplicity. </i>Her voice and her words resonated with my own longing for quiet and her <i>52 project </i>seemed like a manageable 'something' that I could do. </div>
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In <a href="http://www.practisingsimplicity.com/">Jodi's</a> words: <span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">"There's a common saying amongst mothers, first coined by writer Gretchen Rubin in </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">her book </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;"><a href="http://gretchenrubin.com/" style="background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; box-sizing: border-box; color: #8e904d; text-decoration: none;">The Happiness Project</a></i></span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 12.727272033691406px; letter-spacing: 0px; line-height: 17.99715805053711px;">: “The days are long, but the years are short.” Indeed, our days of mothering babies and young children can be tiring and messy; a cycle of washing, settling, cleaning and playing. Sometimes they’re monotonous and seemingly endless. But then, without so much as a blink, the sleepless nights and mornings at the park are over, and we’re sending our children off to school, hesitantly cutting the metaphorical cord once again.</span></div>
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And so, I plan to take "a portrait of my daughter, once a week, every week, in 2014". A manageable 'something' that will keep me here, keep my camera in my hands and yet not be too much that I give it all up for some other, more manageable, goal.</div>
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If I am being honest, this may be the only thing that appears on this blog this year. A post a week. And that will be okay. </div>
Clare Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15356519337228174440noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110861904597349582.post-42655959300223385802014-01-10T03:45:00.000+01:002014-01-10T03:45:00.066+01:00And a wonderful party<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And that, my friends, was the end of a magical fairytale party. We were so very lucky that we found Silvia and Alessandra from <a href="http://www.weddingsicily.com/">Wedding's Sicily</a> who made all my Pinterest dreamings a reality. Francesco from <a href="http://www.borgosanrocco.com/">Borgo san Rocco </a> was also fantastic and I feel so very, very blessed to have fantastic sisters and friends who fussed over me, E and M and organised the little (and big) thing on the day so that I didn't have to worry about a thing. And, of course, thanks to <a href="http://www.claire-morgan.com/">Claire Morgan </a>who photographed the day.Clare Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15356519337228174440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110861904597349582.post-80787187907302092912014-01-09T12:59:00.000+01:002014-01-09T12:59:00.322+01:00Love<div style="text-align: center;">
Music, sun, laughter and little feet dancing. These are the things that I will treasure about our day.
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<span id="goog_1823169185"></span><span id="goog_1823169186"></span><br />Clare Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15356519337228174440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110861904597349582.post-51352874161382691622014-01-08T12:24:00.000+01:002014-01-08T12:24:00.914+01:00Amore20 children - 12 toddlers, 2 newborns and 5 middle-sized children to keep things interesting. Three languages and four nations represented at the wedding ceremony. Our wedding wouldn't have been <i>ours<i></i></i> without them.
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Photos by the wonderful <a href="http://claire-morgan.com/">Claire Morgan</a>Clare Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15356519337228174440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110861904597349582.post-41427942379072219942014-01-07T12:50:00.000+01:002014-01-07T12:50:00.079+01:00Liebe<div style="text-align: justify;">
I can't leave 2013 behind without leaving you with a taste of our wedding. One fine day in September we stood amongst friends and family and said 'I do'. </div>
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It was a magical day made up of hundreds of tiny, magical moments.
There are so many things that I want to share with you about our day. I've thought long about what 'spin' to put on our wedding - DIY, destination, cross-cultural - because it was all of that, but what I most want to share is that we included everyone in our day. Twenty children - 15 toddlers, 2 newborns and 5 middle-sized kids! With a bit of planning and not much more effort we wove them into the fabric of our day; lavender to throw at the ceremony, folk music for dancing, balloons while we drank and at the end of the night babysitters to supervise sleep while the grownups danced the night away. I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a vested interested including the under 5's, but honestly I wouldn't have had it any other way. </div>
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And so here it is - our wedding (in 4 parts) - told through the eyes of the littles and one that as a mother, I am proud to tell. </div>
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Venue: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/www.borgosanrocco.com">Borgo san Rocco</a>, Savoca Italy<br />
Wedding planner: <a href="https://www.blogger.com/www.weddingsicily.com">Wedding Sicily</a><br />
Photography: <a href="http://www.claire-morgan.com/">Claire Morgan</a><br />
Dress: made by Michelle de Lacey, Melbourne Australia<br />
Hair piece: etsy
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E: <i>A highlight of the week, the rubbish trucks arriving on Monday morning</i></div>
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Oi! We're in full-on dummy withdrawal around these parts. After a bit of prepping and preaning I managed to convince E that giving her dummies to a 'baby' that needed them more was a good idea. On Monday we wrapped up her four remaining dummies in some beautiful wrapping paper. A quick call to a heavily pregnant friend and we were in business. Seriously, what would we do without awesome Mama friends? She didn't drop a beat - <em>of course her new baby would like the dummies! Actually she was just in the car and could pop around and pick them up. On the front step you say? I'll be there in a few minutes... </em>E was less convinced. After initially being right into the wrapping and sticking at some point she realised that this might actually be <em>really happening</em> and she got that look that kinda said <em>whoa the train's left on this one and I'm not sure I like it. </em><br />
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Safe to say she's hating it. Tantrums with the occasional glimpse at a very articulate little girl. At some point last night between screaming episodes she sat up out of bed and asked <em>"Where dummy gone? I don't want baby have it. I want it back."</em> and a little bit later <em>"I trying. I no want to sleep. It hard."</em> This, more than anything is breaking my heart. Two more days of this and the dummies are being unpacked and mysteriously appearing around the house again. Baby can buy it's own.Clare Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15356519337228174440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110861904597349582.post-41676336040674699232013-10-22T03:59:00.002+02:002013-10-24T03:46:11.390+02:00Honeymoon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
A few people have asked me what it was like 'honeymooning' with a 2 year old and why we didn't just allow her to have an extended sleep-over with her cousins while we relaxed and enjoyed newly married life. The short answer is we would have missed her too much. The longer answer is a complicated mix of parental obligations, the challenges that come with taking a 2 year old out of her comfort zone, the fact that E is part of us and we wanted her there and a very real acknowledgement that our week in Salina was the first time that it had been 'just us' holidaying since E was born. And whilst I admit it probably wasn't a traditional honeymoon it was pretty wonderful.</div>
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I appreciate that I'm doing this backwards, but turns out you don't take a lot of photographs on your wedding day. You can, however, take a few on your honeymoon. Which is what I did. We spent a very lazy week on a sleepy island that makes up part of the Aeolian islands between Sicily and the mainland. We slept, we ate, we read books and occasionally we mustered up the energy to visit the beach. The summer season officially ends 30th September so we had the place almost to ourselves. Pretty wonderful and the perfect antidote to the craziness that had gone on the two weeks before. </div>
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Back home now with a thump. Jet lag and the reality of routine getting the better of all of us but at least we all now feel recharged enough to deal with whatever comes next.</div>
Clare Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15356519337228174440noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110861904597349582.post-14841276161915603282013-09-07T03:12:00.001+02:002014-01-08T00:01:46.879+01:00Thoughts<div style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13.333333969116211px;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">Random thoughts which may, or may not explain my state of being;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I'm getting married in 3 weeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In Sicily. To an Austrian.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The paperwork is not finalised and won't be until 4 days before the wedding.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Hopefully.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There is an insurmountable list of things that need "doing" before I leave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Like my tax.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And three photography assignments (Gah!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Oh, and I'm interview for jobs for next year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And filling out endless amounts of paperwork for said jobs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">E had an ear infection. It perforated.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Doctors, doctors, fever, rigors, no sleep, more doctors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My little babe, who is growing up so very quickly, can now articulate how she's feeling.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And does.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">"I no like Doc-tor She-wol, Mama. Mi-mi feel better. Go, Mama, Go."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Bless. Precociousness is a blessing and a curse.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Commuting 1 hour a day for work has confirmed why I (normally) choose to live and work within walking distance of each other.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I hate commuting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Last week saw me driving 45 minutes across the city to drop (a sick) E off at Mum's house before heading back 1.5 hours in the opposite direction to go to work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I briefly questioned my sanity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I also said a small blessing to all mother's out there still 'mothering' their grown-up children.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The election sucks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">No seriously.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">My sister is moving house and I don't have time to help her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ironically she is still finding time to help me with wedding related stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At some point in my life I vow to repay the favour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I need to see the dentist (it's been 5 years)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I did some wedding related knitting back in February. At the time I thought I was being perhaps a little too organised.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now I know better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">E and her cousin's cardigans will not be knit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At least we all have clothes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I would like to be here more, but because of all the above I can't.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">At some point in my life I will slow down and not take the most complicated route. This, I promise.</span></div>
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I am still without camera. The insurance company did, amazingly, come through but unfortunately my particular camera is out of stock and I am waiting on the next delivery. After pestering perhaps a few too many times last week I've been told that I will be "first to know" when they arrive. I'm resisting the urge to call again. In the meantine my phone will have to suffice.</div>
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Cool winter days and an open fire and I've got my knitting mojo back. I've finally finished a hat for me and I've been trying to quickly knit up a few baby friendly gifts as there seems to be another little baby-boom going on amongst our friends. All the knitting and crafting goodness has been duely noted by E. Lastnight she insisted on doing a bit herself. Curious to see what exactly she had in mind I loaned her a "to be frogged" jumper. With the exception of not having a piece of wool in her hands, her technique couldn't be faulted. Lots of click-clacking with her eyes firmly fixed on the documentary playing on the Mac. After a few minutes she was off being busy doing something else although it did get me thinking about crafty, woolly things that she might be able to do herself.</div>
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Does anyone have any ideas? Woolly, crafty things for toddlers. I'm all ears.</div>
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Clare Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15356519337228174440noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110861904597349582.post-44776114104885992812013-07-10T05:46:00.001+02:002013-07-10T05:46:32.298+02:00a most ordinary, unordinary dayI had high hopes for yesterday. Lists and plans and errands and it was all going so very, very well until I got to Costco. I have a secret love affair with Costo. It is hiddeous and every kind of consumer-ism that I don't like but it happens to be not so very far from my house and, well, a 1-2 monthly trip to Costco allows me to stock-up on essentials that can't be found at the market. Nappies, tinned tomatoes and oats. Huge quantities befitting a family that eats porridge for breakfast and tinned tomatoes with everything for dinner. The nappies are self-explanatory. <br />
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Things were being ticked off lists. E was being adorable (mostly), I had managed to squirrel 2 hours away during nap-time for some very important birthday sewing before dashing out to do the Costco run before dinner. It was all clicking so marvelously into place. And then I lost my handbag. Or more precisely, I think someone liberated it from my trolley in the carpark whilst I was wrestling with a not-so-adorable toddler, a ridiculously large trolley and a parking ticket. When I finally got everything packed away into the car there was a small little knot of anxiousness wondering where my bag was but I dismissed it until I got home. But on unpacking the car it was clear that the bag was not there. Checking three times didn't help. There was no handbag to be seen. A trip back to Costco. No bag. Poof! Gone. Just like that.<br />
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As I have tried to reassure myself many times over the last 24 hours it is not all bad. My wallet was thankfully in my hands. As were my keys. I was not mugged. E is safe. I am safe. There was no need to cancel any cards or reapply for pesky things like my driving licence. E's very special toy "Hippo" that often hangs out in my bag - just in case - was also thankfully in her hands. But my phone was not. Nor was my camera. They are gone. There were no photos on my camera (thankfully) but many, many photos on my phone which I will never get back.<br />
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It's such a silly thing really. They are possesions after all and replaceable. Hopefully insurance might pay for some. Oh but I do feel sick at the thought of it. My lovely, lovely camera gone. Clare Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15356519337228174440noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6110861904597349582.post-86371015442740201732013-07-03T03:00:00.000+02:002013-07-03T04:37:34.791+02:00documenting E - a new challenge<div style="text-align: center;">
I have decided to set myself a huge challenge. I'm going to take a picture of E - or E's things - every day for the next year. It's going to be tough. Actually, if my previous record with photography challenges is anything to go by, it's going to be almost impossible. But I want to try. I'm not sure if everything I will document will end up here, but at least for the beginning expect a post a week documenting E.</div>
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<span style="text-align: center;">1/365 : Even in winter all you want to do is be outside. </span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;">2/365 : Mostly you're all over the place - running, hiding and pleading to be outside. Today after my shower I found you quietly doing puzzles. It must have taken you ages to line up the blocks "just so". After you'd finished you put it back on the shelf declaring your were "Fi-fished". I wondered if we'd perhaps taught you too well about the importance of being tidy.</span></div>
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3/365 : You've been so sick this winter. We've tried everything - Vicks vapour rub, humidifiers and lately - Ventolin. You hate it, riggling about all over the place and protesting madly about having the mask put over your face. Tonight I found you giving Teddy and Poupe (your doll) their Ventolin before bed. "Teddy. Cough." you nodded at me and then "Hold. Still."</div>
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4/365 : I wondered what you thought of your first experience of "Australian snow". Were you disappointed?</div>
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5/365 : Stories are one of your favourite things at the moment. You take books everywhere - in the car, in the pram and lately you've even started taking them as 'show and tell' to childcare. A new book everyday. You push books into the hands of anyone and everyone you meet </div>
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"You. Read it?" Mostly they do.</div>
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6/365 : You were out of sorts today. I think you might be teething. You keep telling me that you've bitten your mouth and I guess you're gums must be sore. </div>
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