From the monthly archives:

December 2009

Countdown……part 1

December 29, 2009

Well, I’ve had a busy year…no one could say it hasn’t been eventful…… I’ve spent the majority of the year going from court date to court date. I joined Twitter and as I said in this post it changed my life enormously. I started seeing a counsellor around the same time. I’ve drunk too much [...]

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Merry Christmas

December 24, 2009

  Merry Christmas I wanted to wish you all a very Happy and safe Christmas. I have appreciated all your support over the last five months, you have helped me get through a very difficult time of my life. I have lots to rant and rave about in the near future but this is a [...]

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Banana Bread

December 22, 2009

There are some recipes that I use time and time again.  Being short of money at the moment it sickens me to throw any food away so when I spied several bananas that no one was going to eat as they were well past their best by date I decided to make delicious banana bread [...]

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A snowy day

December 20, 2009

I couldn’t resist showing you some photos of our snowy days. The children were so excited Thursday evening, looking outside every five minutes checking for a glimpse of snow and then when it came  they kept me informed of the progress. When I went to bed I couldn’t tell if it was snowing or not [...]

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My Christmas……..

December 19, 2009

I ‘borrowed’ this from Cee at Curiosity, a get to know you at Christmas. I couldn’t resist it…..I’m trying to get myself excited for Christmas and thought this was a great idea.   Here’s what you’re supposed to do…copy this entire post and paste into a new post on your blog. Change all the answers [...]

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I’m thankful…..that bloody tree is up at last and others!!

December 12, 2009

 Back to being grateful after last weeks selfish omission of thanks for all I have!! ;0) Today I am grateful for…….. 1. Mince pies. 2. A party to go to tomorrow! Whoo hooo! 3. A very violent but short lived stomach bug, fingers crossed no one else gets it. 4. Friends, I cannot put into [...]

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Christmas Cards

December 10, 2009

 Just a quick post as my internet connection has never been as bad as it has this week- ever! Very frustrating. Plus I’m having trouble with blogger too. Things aren’t great at all. I don’t even know where to start. Finding any Christmas spirit is so hard and even the older children don’t seem to [...]

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Christmas carols

December 8, 2009

I’m going to bug you all now I can blog anywhere/anytime. You will all be cursing the day I found blog press for the iPhone. Yes this should get me into the Christmas spirit – the annual Christmas carol service Arghhhh, a couple of hours later…. And after I just lost the rest of this [...]

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An Over the Top Award

December 3, 2009

Thank you so much to Christina at Fashion’s most wanted for this Over the Top award. Check out Christina’s blog…amazing interviews and photos. There are twenty questions to answer before bestowing the award to others. Here we go : 1) Your Hair Long and curly but rapidly turning grey!! Not fair! 2)Your favourite food Chocolate…of [...]

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It won’t happen again

December 2, 2009

You’d be forgiven for thinking that after over fifteen years of parenting I would be experienced in just about everything and prepared for anything. And if you did think that then you would be wrong. Proceed with caution………. Today I was not prepared for this scenario, it had not even occurred to me before. I [...]

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