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.

25 days of NaBloPoMo

My dentist told me that it takes 30 days to create a habit (she was talking about flossing) and I think she might be right. Starting off blogging every day this month was really hard, most evenings I sat down and moaned about how I had nothing to say and how I was too tired and how I wanted to watch TV instead and so on. Now, 25 days later I most days I feel I still have nothing to say, but I have relaxed a little and accepted that not every entry (or any for that matter) is going to be groundbreaking or change lives or inspire anyone or even make anyone laugh, and it has got a lot easier. There is less than a week left of NaBloPoMo and hopefully, unless there are unforeseen circumstances, I should make the distance.

I wish I had more time to write about the things which are really on my mind – to talk about creative stirrings and a feeling that life is gradually getting back on track and how much I love my little girls and why and what they mean to me. I also wish there was time to talk about the days when I find that being a mum is still something that feels so unnatural to me and I wonder what on earth I am doing but somehow usually when I wake up the next morning things feel much better again.

But there isn’t time to explain it all, so I post snippets instead and hope that they somehow convey a sense of all these things.

W.I.P. Friday – Lily’s doll

I was hoping to have more of Lily’s doll finished for today’s W.I.P. photo, at least the hair sewn on if not the head attached, but it was not to be so here she is so far. Amelia is up at Kinder today so I am about to start cutting out her Ugly pink monster and then begin the arduous task of sewing on the 4 eyes… that is if Lily’s nap turns out to be a long one, which would be unusual, so we’ll see.

I haven’t mentioned here that during November and December we are having guest bloggers over at Kiddley. So far we have featured a book review by Kath from Whipup, a fabulous pinecone hedgehog by Myra from My Little Mochi, some Fall leaf art by Blair from Wise.. Craft and Amanda’s advent calendar that she made for her lovely Soule family last year. There will be plenty more to come, so stay tuned!