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About 16 years ago my Mom had cancer and she was ill for 2 years.  And she survived.  Looking back and doing the math I realised with a shock that she was 43 when she was diagnosed.  I’m on the wrong side of 35. 

It was, in retrospect, a wonderful bonding time for us as she suffered from insomnia and I worked funny hours, so we spent a lot of nights together.

On the periphery of my every day life there are 2 young women, N and L, that both had leukemia in the last year and survived.  Both of them have now been re-diagnosed and are probably in the same hospital tonight.  One of them is a Mom already. and the other has a husband who loves his wife immensely. 

I don’t have anything deep or moving to say about it, except that I’m a little pissed off right now.  Please keep them in your thoughts.

We went to the park yesterday and once again I was trying to get everyone together in one place.

Mignon turned around

Daddy tries to get them all into place

And off Daniel goes.

I’m not into expensive underwear, I have to confess. 

The odd lacy bra is cool and about 10 kgs from now (ha.ha) I’ll be back in my g-strings.  I don’t do twin sets, that’s far too much like hard work.

If I have R200 to spend it will go towards something for the kids or a book, so clearly underwear is rather low on the priority list.

BUT, I did go out out and buy some bra’s recently to assist my rather sad-looking boobies after 2 pregnancies, feeding a 4 kg boy and 2 x 3.5 kg girls for almost 4 months each time.  Don’t boobs look fabulous when they are full of milk?  I felt like Pam A!

But I digress.  I went to a lovely shop, Storm in a G-Cup, in Durbanville and bought 2 little numbers. And they fit wonderfully at the time and the service was great. BUT, my (not so) little numbers are just not behaving.  I feel like I’m constantly falling out of my bra due to their not-so-perky status.  You know when you see a woman and her boobs are kind of sticking over the top of her bra?  I’m one of those at the moment…

Any suggestions on good bra’s??

I always thought I was cool with change, that I adapt easily.

Right now though I’m beginning to wonder, as I am literally being projectiled into new stuff.

Some examples:
1.  change of job – a whole different stress level as I now pretty much work for myself.
2.  working from home mostly
3.  Daniel changing schools, so taking a different route every day
4.  retreching the domestic worker (and my personal little crutch) as I need her room for my office
5.  getting involved in lots of exiting stuff workwise
6.  getting my own new laptop (which I am loving!)
7.  swopping rooms around in our house in order to make a playroom, move the girls into a smaller room and re-doing Daniel’s room
8.  the very BEST change: being able to spend a lot more time with my children!!

Phew!

Mignon was standing in the bath tonight and pointing at a bath toy that was out of her reach.  I then asked her whether she wanted that toy and she replied “ja” and nodded.  Sweet!

Isabel is a total hooligan at the moment.  She and Daniel are wrestling the whole time and Daniel pretty much can sit on her and she loves it.  My heart sits in my throat most of the time, but I try to keep an eye and not cramp their style too much.  Ykes.

There is a song in Afrikaans “Ek’s ‘n dapper muis”, Tannie Carike sings it and whenever we go to the park Isabel walks with her feet high and it always makes me think of this song, she kind of stomps through the grass.

Ag, they are divine, all 3 of them, we are so blessed. 

I bought new curtains for our bedroom a couple of weeks ago, just before the BIG SNOT started.  They are lovely, mock suede curtains from Mr Price.

As I was lying in bed last night, just before I was about to switch off the light, I cast my eye admiringly over the curtains and what do I see?  A horizontal line of snot at 15 month old height.  Across both curtains.

*sigh*

Hubby and I were trying to fling food on plates last night, so switched “the babysitter” on.  We have one of those box thingies with a bunch of movies on it and hubby decided to try “Lilo and Stitch”.

About 10 minutes into the movie I saw guns and caracters being shot and immediately switched it off.  I really don’t think that’s appropriate viewing for a 3 year old.  Not to even mention the 15 month old girls that were hanging around.

Am I a freaked out Mommy or do people let their small kiddies watch this stuff? 

ps:  I am generally a bit OTT when it comes to violence, my Brother-in-law often sends me pics of dead hunted animals as he knows how it annoys me 

Yes, it’s still me, I just needed a change, so I’ve changed my Blog name – what do you think?  Family matters – get it?

Downs:

1.  Had a long read through Q‘s blog (Wild Wild West) tonight and my heart really goes out to her.  Please keep her in your thoughts.
2.   Was a bit absent this week, so I feel like I’ve missed out on a lot.  It was great to catch up tonight, like seeing old friends. 

Ups:
1.  Finally took the plunge and bought my own laptop today, still trying to get the hang of it, but it’s great to to have my own connectivity. 
2.  All my organising is finally coming together, if all goes well the handyman and waterproofing guys will be here on Monday and I will be able to have a proper home office soon.  I need to start the consultation process with our live-in and am not looking forward to it, but I have no choice.

Take care and have a great weekend!  About to drag my freezing ass off to bed and stick my cold feet in the back of hubby’s knees hiehiehie.

I was chatting to a friend today and she mentioned that her cellphone was stolen/lost on Saturday and that she is waiting for hubby to arrange a new one. Which lead to the conversation about who does what in their house, because I have no patience and hubby would wait for 18 months for the best deal.

Her hubby is the organiser, cook and the DIY dude in their household. And very good at his job I might add 🙂

In our house I do a lot of the organising (getting quotes, paying bills, making doctor’s appointments, fighting with builders and municipalities etc), hubby does all the accounting stuff and cooking and we outsource the majority of the DIY stuff. We also tend to share the load with the children, although he does get up more often than I do at night, purely because he sleeps closest to the bedroom door and is a light sleeper.

What happens in your house? Who does what?

Seeing that I have resigned from a permanent job and will be doing work for my current emplyer and other odds and ends from next week, I need to buy a laptop and “get connected”

I feel like a member of the AA – “fake it ’till you make it” – when it comes to all things technical, so here is what I have learnt so far:

A laptop must apparently be:
Core 2 Duo
Have 2G of Ram 
It must be able to downgrade to XP as this is a company requirement

My requirements are:
Not too expensive (duh)
A built-in camera if possible for Skype

Then of course there is the whole issue around Office as apparently you cannot buy the Student Package for 2007 with Outlook – you have to buy the “Small business edition”  Which totally sucks, because it is really expensive!

Lastly, around the issue of connectivity, I want to be mobile, so I probably need an HSDPA.  Any suggestions around this as I don’t want to duplicate costs!

HELP!!