At Latinetc last week I made a start on doing some poetry study with the older kids. I managed to forget my book, so grabbed one from Katy’s shelf and luckily it had one of my absolute favourite poems in it, which my mum used to read me when I was very young. An odd […]
The Home Ed Round Up Bits
Trying to think what has been going on the last couple of weeks in the “in between other more meaningful posts” places. I always end up going to look on Facebook and Twitter to see what I’ve been doing. We finally managed to get most of the Lego builds in one place and one piece […]
Bye Bye Button Rabbit :(
Button a photo by Merrily Me on Flickr. At lunch time today Fran came in to say that Button, our 8 year old rabbit, was shaking and not looking right. She had been hopping about just fine yesterday, though I thought she looked a bit lethargic and slow but she was still happy to chase […]
Knitting Progress
The knitted sanity blanket continues and I’m starting to think this blanket says a lot about the process of the last year. There was no expectation of anything changing, ever again, in the beginning and no expectation of recovery, or learning to live alongside all of this. I didn’t think I’d ever be able to […]
Reluctantly Spring
Hey, little boy. I see you.
Empty & aching and I don't know why…
Dear Freddie, Today you should be 11 months old. Your birthday is creeping up and it is preying on all our minds, even in the places I normally expect it the least. I know we all wish we were planning the first ever boy birthday in the house instead of trying to work out how […]
How to make a Felted Kindle Bag
This was my first go at felting a knitted item and it has turned out so amazingly well that I thought I had better write down what I did or I’ll forget how I did it. I love the finished item so much that I am pretty sure I’ll be making more of them (stand […]
That one last get out.
Thanks to the arrival, today, of my period, I have passed a milestone, the bitterest yet. I have to sit out next month in this grim and vile trying to conceive malarkey and so I can no longer be pregnant by Freddie’s first birthday. I can no longer have a rainbow baby in 2011. Anything […]
Things that don't make sense
How can it be that a birth that left me in this kind of a mess resulted in a healthy child and a birth as simple, easy and beautiful as Freddie’s resulted in a child who died but who left me with no lasting rage, anger or mental damage. How am I supposed to make […]
Marshalling Mojo
Recently, Jax wrote about her mojo being AWOL. We’ve had some similarities in our life over the last few years, Jax and I – a significant loss(es) each, a long period of trying to be pregnant, juggling work and home educating. And I certainly know what she means about mojo upping and leaving (I hope […]
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