November 30, 2006

It’s the last day of November and I managed to post every day of the month. Most of the posts even seemed quite cheery.

In the end I quite enjoyed it, most days anyway. I feel like it has got me back into the swing of it all again which I really needed to do after Lily’s arrival and my blogging hit an all time low (four posts in two months!?). It’s also got me thinking about my craft pursuits again, and taking more photos and thinking about writing a book – so that’s all a wonderful bi-product of a seemingly daunting task.

And what about December? I would love to keep up this pace but school holidays descend upon us as does Christmas madness and in truth it would be lovely to have some evenings where there is absolutely nothing that needs doing after 8pm except cleaning my teeth so I am not going to set myself any crazy tasks.

But there you go. Whoo-hoo! And now I must away because there is an advent calendar which needs making.

Wistful

Wow – I love Wists! I use it to keep track of great kids’ finds for Kiddleylinks (which I mark private so I can reveal them later!) – but I can see that it will be useful to keep track of other beautiful things I find on the web. I just started this evening but I know I won’t be able to stop adding to it – it’s like a giant wishlist and gallery rolled into one. Mmmm.

Ow, my toe is sore, I will say it time and time again

I think I might have broken my toe, or a bone in my foot. It’s purple and it’s very sore but I have no idea how I did it. I have a vague recollection of dropping something on it and saying “ow, that really hurt” but it seems to have snuck up on me. So I am limping around feeling grumpy. I did a tag search on flickr for “grumpy” and it’s quite a good one really. The tag search for “broken toe” is off putting but confirms my fears that I have a break none the less.

We have just come home from Amelia’s Christmas concert which was lovely, of course. Amelia was a cute little angel and sang like a star. Lily was very well behaved and even smiled through a huntsman incident – which involved not a very big, but still spidery, spider crawling all over her baby car capsule just after Phil had put her back inside it. We all shouted, screamed, stamped and panicked embarrassingly in front of most of Amelia’s class mates, parents and teachers, but the huntsman didn’t touch the baby which I feel is the most important thing. I guess big spiders could be one draw back to sending Amelia to kinder in a school set in beautiful National Park settings.

Anyway, I must go. Amelia is hyped on post-concert biscuit sugar and won’t go to sleep. I can hear things getting tense out there.

Another list

Good things:

A big tall glass of unflavoured mineral water after a salty bowl of hot chips.

A hot cup of chai first thing in the morning almost before I even open my eyes (thanks Big-P)

My smallest girl rolling from back to front and front to back and looking so pleased with herself

My bigger girl full of love and smoochy kisses

Emails and photos from my parents in Japan

Fresh sheets

Guest contributors to Kiddley

Bean plants getting bigger

A family trip to the dentist – all good, no holes

Good packages in the mail

Green and Blacks white chocolate

Christmas shopping almost done

Felt ornaments from AK Traditions

And now 4 more posts until the end of NaBloPoMo!

Books for cooks jnr.

Amelia got really excited this evening when I suggested that we might have a Solstice dinner in December where we each choose something to prepare. Not only will it be the Solstice, but it will be six months since Lily was born and, while she has been a delightful baby, the first six months is pretty tough for one and all so reaching this milestone will be one for us to celebrate. Amelia decided she needed to do some research so out came all the kids’ cookbooks and her little stash of sticky bookmarks. As you can see actually settling on something is going to be a tough challenge but whatever it is it will surely be spectacular.