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13 years ago @ Sleep is for the Weak - Having a make-over… · 0 replies · +1 points

Love it. More artistic, somehow. And I love how you refer to you and son's lives, instead of just saying you're his mother. Don't know if that makes sense!

13 years ago @ http://geekymummy.blog... - The Girls · 0 replies · +1 points

What a great picture and inspiring thought! It is beginning, for the first time probably, to be good to be a girl. We can think about our daughters' futures and smile. I just hope things catch up for the rest of the world soon.

13 years ago @ A Mothers Ramblings - Christmas Stockings an... · 1 reply · +1 points

Such a great idea to start shopping for it in the january sales! I think I'll do that this year. Stockings are important in our family too, as they are a big part on my husband's childhood christmases. And he likes them filled with pretty much the same stuff as you! But we usually end up doing a rushed stocking filler shop in late december... Can't wait to see what you put in them!
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13 years ago @ Sticky Fingers - Whose responsibility i... · 0 replies · +1 points

Gosh that sounds pretty horrible actually. I would really worry if my kids' school pulled stunts like that. I guess the advantage of expat schools is that they're smaller and it's in the teachers' interest to get on with the parents. Hope that doesn't happen again!
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13 years ago @ Livi's Little Bubble - Love and Marriage · 1 reply · +2 points

I really like the Viorst quote.
My husband and I got married allegedly because we couldn't get a British passport for our daughter otherwise (despite the fact that she was born in the UK to a British dad!). But he did ask me to marry him very early on in our relationship, and despite all previous notions that marriage was just a bit of paper tying me to social and religious mores I didn't believe in, I had said yes straight away. When it came down to it, I wanted to be married to him, to make a commitment that the society we're a part of could hold us to. Society in a loose sense anyway seeing as I'm French, he's English, we live in Turkey and were married in NYC.

13 years ago @ 3 Bedroom Bungalow to ... - De-cluttering Life · 0 replies · +1 points

Sounds like a good plan! Please let us know how it goes.

13 years ago @ Sleep is for the Weak - All Change · 0 replies · +1 points

So glad you've got a positive reason to pull out of the course: it will make all the difference! But pulling out of a college course doesn't have to mean you lose your artistic self again. I reckon painting sometimes changes things as much as writing does. After all, what we need is for people to see the world, isn't it? Good luck to you and Ant.

13 years ago @ http://thinkingautismg... - Autism Is Not Invisibl... · 0 replies · +1 points

I agree with you that awareness is crucial. People who are not affected by autism need to recognise it in others so that they can include rather than exclude them, and so that, in difficult situations, they can be helpful and understanding rather than judgmental. We were once picked up in the street by the police when we were visiting relatives in England. Our son was having a meltdown and we'd have to leave a bus and walk back to our relative's house. A 'helpful' neighbour had called the police, claiming we were abusing our son. But as soon as we told the police officers that our son was autistic, they became helpful, gave us a ride back in their car, which calmed our son down instantly. So now, whenever there is trouble looming, I say: 'he's autistic'. Just in case it works, and so that people learn what autism looks like.

13 years ago @ Mocha Beanie Mummy - The Zombie BlogHer Bur... · 0 replies · +1 points

I think zombie burgers are much more dangerous than zombie people. To dispose of a zombie for good, you must slice off it's head. Anything else it can do without. But a burger is round. No head. So you can't destroy it.

13 years ago @ A Mothers Ramblings - Family Fun on a Budget · 1 reply · +1 points

What a great bunch of ideas! It's good to be reminded that there's always something fun to be done, even if you don't have cash to burn - or, in our case, when it's too hot to go anywhere! Very timely too - I'm reading this on a Sunday morning!
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