Not much I can really say.

Currently reading a book called The Child Inside.  It's about a married woman who begins an affair with a married man.  He is the younger brother of someone she was friends with as a teenager.  The affair begins with them bonding over the death of her friend (his sister) many years before, but the theme of the book is loss, and connecting through ( Read more... )

I can't believe it's been three years.  My heart hurts.

It's that time of year again where I start to ponder.  This happens every year around my birthday.  It began 11 years ago when I had an existential crisis and it hasn't stopped.  The year it turned 30 I could feel it coming on for months before so I betook myself (and five month old M, at the time) to a different time zone for a week.

( Don't say I didn't warn you )

J has had his first cold and fever.  Poor boy - couldn't figure out why he was such a mess last Friday until he woke up in the middle of the night all hot and snuffly.  We all survived it, though it was a bit of a hard weekend.  He's doing much better now and actually slept for 6 hours straight last night - for the first time in a long while...

B ( Read more... )

It feels like the summer is ending.  Odd, because summer in the UK never really took off this year.  The sun does come out but it's vaguely warm and breezy rather than hot.  Yes, I know that with the heat comes humidity, but it would be nice to experience a real summer here more often than once in eight years.  That's right - eight years.  Because ( Read more... )

My mother really pissed me off today.  She was calling to share the news that my cousin's wife had a baby girl yesterday.

My mother has a rather bizarre way of conveying this sort of information to me.  I have many cousins; they have many babies.  Some of them have been due (well, in one case a cousin's wife was pregnant)  around the same time.  ( Read more... )

Things that are making me happy right now:

My husband - he's been so great and patient with me, especially lately.  He's still bringing me coffee to bed every morning (ok, so what if I have to get the kids ready for school, prepare lunches and make sure they bring in homework/reading books/filled-out forms).  I love falling asleep all cuddled up in ( Read more... )

....as my due date approaches.  Yep, I was due this Saturday - D's birthday, in fact.  And I've gotten him something pretty good and I really can't wait to surprise him.  And we're going to have cake and we even have a babysitter lined up for Saturday night.  But right now I really wish I were sitting up late at night struggling to get organized ( Read more... )

It's been an interesting week here - lots going on, even more than usual.  And now we get to enjoy a week of having the kids home during half-term, which will really help us move back to a slower pace.  It's been fast - and fun - but I'm starting to feel like I need things to move more slowly again.

We had parents evening for both kids.  M's ( Read more... )