The White Rabbit

Living with a Brasilian you learn to have a very fluid sense of timekeeping. To say they're relaxed on the matter might be a slight understatement. Theyve got no sense of urgency whatsoever. I've even found that since being with the husband my own sense of time ...

100+ Reading Challenge

I failed. Strangely enough, I feel ok about that. I managed to read 93 books at an average rate of one book every 3.92 days. I should have read at a rate of one book every 3.65 days. I wasn't far off, but sometimes life gets in the ...

The Girl Loves to Shop

We'd planned to go in to town this weekend to watch the Lord Mayor's Show and fireworks but the boy got invited to a birthday party and was much more taken with the idea of going to see Fantastic Mr Fox and eating pizza.  Unfortunately for the husband, I saw ...

Last of the Mohicans

So last week the boy spents a few days at the mother in laws.  They had plans for the circus, a sleepover with his cousin (well ok, the husband's step-father's nephew - yeah, cousin) and a trip to the cinema.  On Thursday morning the mother in law called.  She wanted to ...

12 Weeks, 4 Days / 10 Weeks*

Yesterday was the 12 week scan.  I left work super early because parking had been so bad last week, only for us to do one lap of the car park and find a nice space in the shade.  It left us with some time to kill so we grabbed a coffee ...