Favourite Video – this mum had some guts – and thank God the kid didn’t screw it up!! Love Buble’s reaction when he realise the kid can sing. Favourite Song Book I enjoyed the most Best speech of the year. In January 2011 Queensland was underwater with a series of… Read more »
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Wonderful
Princess Child today asked “do you ever have a day when you just feel your life is wonderful?” “Surrrre” I replied (OK hesitantly) “Do you feel like that?” I asked. “Yep I do” she replied and my heart soared. So all the tears and meltdowns during the year have disappeared in the languid calm of… Read more »
Crumbling Strength
Condeming my children to a life of under-achievement
I may be holding my children back from achieving their true potential. I know it’s hard to fathom given the amount of time, energy and money I’ve invested in them. This Christmas Hippie Child was given the autobiography of Jessica Watson, the teenager who in 2010, at just 16, became the youngest person to sail… Read more »
Christmas Come and Gone
Well it’s over for another year. Christmas come and gone in a mad whirl of shopping, cleaning, cooking, entertaining. It was hosted for the first time this year at Shambles Manor. We did successfully clear up enough room for people to be able to physically enter the house, OK it was never going to pass… Read more »
Weekly Photo Challenge – Between
Weekly Photo Challenge – Self Portrait
Fair to say, I hated this week’s photo challenge. Firstly, trying to find a decent photo of myself, VERY DIFFICULT. I was at one point tempted to revert back to my wedding shots, OK they may be 15 years old but with professional hair and make-up I didn’t turn out half bad. I was going… Read more »
Christmas countdown on – are we ready? No we’re not.
Three days remaining until the Christmas festivities. Or 62 hours, 26 minutes and 9 seconds at the time of writing, if you count Christmas day as starting at 6.00am on the 25th. As the time ticks away the frenzy gets that little bit more intense because, as per usual, we are not ready. You would… Read more »
Reading This Week – There Should Be More Dancing – Rosalie Ham
Margery Blandon, an uptight 79-year-old, is on the 43rd floor of the Tropic Hotel debating whether to jump over the edge. How she came to get there is the basis of There Should Be More Dancing by Rosalie Ham. Ham, the author of The Dressmaker, portrays a darkly humorous look at the process of aging,… Read more »
Janine Fitzpatrick is a personal blogger with an untidy house, imperfect children and no celebrity friends.
