Memoirs of a Crazy Cat Lady

[...] strong (and fast).  Miss Barry is four months old and exploring more and more of the world. Miss Squid will be three in little more than a month. Time marches on and life is good. Christmas is next [...]

[...] . The neighbourhood is largely quiet except for the occasional dog barking and bird chirping. Miss Squid is on the floor, starting to get frustrated that she can't move where she wants. She can move, [...]

[...] Miss Squid is well and truly on the move now... [...]

[...] ! Also, in an effort to reclaim my identity apart from mother, I have created a blog just for Miss Squid's stories. This is so I have a record independent of Crazy Cat Lady that one day Miss Squid [...]

[...] 't get me wrong, I haven't fallen off into an abyss of PND, it just means I have to work a bit harder at not being upset at being woken up 2 hours after I'd fallen asleep, or that just when I [...]

[...] I was when I was 23 and I don't feel that much different in my head, mostly. Then I look a bit harder. I was pretty much a control freak when I was younger. I think I have mellowed a fair bit as I [...]

[...] . I guess though, there is a status quo in that though and at the very least it is getting a bit harder to keep my head up my own bum. Drama and crisies make it harder to indulge one's own self [...]

[...] actually read and I haven't posted in a while), but for now I have to return to trying to get Miss Barry to go to sleep. [...]

[...] proximity to the last two! It is amazing what some sleep can do for one's energy levels.  Miss Barry is being an absolute gem and allowing me to get some decent uninterrupted sleep blocks and it [...]

[...] smile and a wonderful husband.  Life is good.  The girls are growing strong (and fast).  Miss Barry is four months old and exploring more and more of the world. Miss Squid will be three in [...]

[...] .) I got a call a week or so ago that was not unlikely in this ecconomic climate, one of my temp contracts has been finalised due to a restructure. There are several staff moving on from the employer [...]

[...] waited for the midwife to come back and give me a bit of an examination and hooked me up to monitor bubs and any contractions. She felt baby through my belly and gave me the bad news that while baby' [...]

Not great quality, and the noise is quiet, but fun none-the-less. [...]

[...] move a bit in the last week or so, but nothing super definitive yet. The blubber and the anterior placenta make it a bit hard to tell. It's dark, only slightly earlier than alarm time, on my day off. [...]

[...] like a jumbo plastic crochet hook to pop this bit to try and wake up my body into starting contractions. It didn't, and by 7am when nothing started naturally, I was put onto a drip of [...]

[...] myself, having finished up breastfeeding at about 10 months, and losing the last of the baby hormones at that time. I do feel different since losing the hormones. I have lost some of the [...]

[...] collaborations turn out. I have decided it is time to prioritise some time regularly for creative endevours. This might be blogging, card making, painting, sewing or other randomness. I might even [...]