Author Archives: fern
Unpublished
How would you feel if you entire backlog of drafts (and don’t lie, I know you’ve got them!) were posted without your knowledge. Just one blip and everything that you didn’t feel fit for publishing was laid bare for all of the Interwebs to see? It happened to me yesterday, at least I thought I … Continue reading
My Baby Died Yesterday
No, not Robyn, although some days it feels like it. Not the wee one that hung around for just a few weeks, just long enough to ease the pain of Robyn’s first birthday and then left without ever really making a mark. This is the new one, dubbed “Hercules” by its biggest brother. And as … Continue reading
Saturday Consisted Of…
Showers, and me concluding that Declan is part amphibian. Connor, on the other hand, will spend the entire time daring himself to actually go under the stream of water instead of just putting his hands and feet into it. Baking, with thanks to Woman’s Weekly, the northern hemisphere is seriously missing out on this one, … Continue reading
Sewing For The Weekend
This weekend is my second time at the Port Macquarie Artist’s Market. I’m feeling a lot more confident about it this time around, I have a clearer idea of what people are looking for and can prepare for that accordingly. I stitched up some animal themed babygrows/onesies/rompers/whatever you want to call them, yesterday, they’re crazy … Continue reading
Fire, Fire!
The boys and I spent the morning at the Firefighter Championships, climbing on old fire engines, watching fire demos and idolising the firemen that were all around us. I’m not sure what it is about firemen that gets little boys so excited, but the boys loved it, Declan has been telling me all of his … Continue reading
Babies
Earlier this week as I tucked Declan into bed he looked intently at me and asked: “Mummy, are you going to have a baby?” I floundered, my brain did the mental equivalent of rolling over and playing dead whilst I racked my brain for an appropriate answer that he would understand and at the same … Continue reading
The (Virtual) Pages Of My Life
Earlier this morning I was reading a friend’s livejournal, when Connor snatched the mouse from me, clicked some random buttons and brought me to my own livejournal, in particular the “just plain weird” category of my own LJ. I haven’t used LJ regularly for years, the most recent post was from November of 2006 complaining … Continue reading
I’ve had this post sitting in my browser for three days now while I try and come up with a title. I am now admitting defeat, and you get this stupidly long title that is going to screw with my formatting.
My first appointment with the psychologist was amazing, I walked out of his office feeling about fifty pounds lighter. There was no lying on the couch discussing my parent’s failings, there was no awkward silence as I flounder around trying to work out what to say. We sat at his desk, drank a cup of … Continue reading
Only Words
Last week I bit the bullet and got a referral from our GP to go and speak to a Psychologist. He gave me a referral to who I had requested (Declan’s pysch, who announces on his card that he “does big kids too!”), but not before making me do the dreaded “How Close Are You … Continue reading
An Apology
You know when you get a little distracted and don’t post for a while. And then your mum comes to visit (with less than a weeks notice!), and of course you shouldn’t be messing around on the internet during the first time you’ve seen her in 18 months. Then you get sick, and spend two … Continue reading
