Franny Had A Little Yam - 10/10 thingummies :o)

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I must go to bed too or I shall be quite useless in the morning.

Good night everybody
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Bero you sound very determined and clear and strong. People we grew up with can often make us feel like we were the people we were back then and make us hesitate, I find. But the decisions you made should be trusted, I think, at least more than your parents interpretation of your situation which is far less informed than your own.

It is unnerving to have a wobble though. Could it be going back to work influencing your confidence? It would be if it were me.

ds2 is awake

night xxx

Night everyone

Night veggers, good luck settling Bero.

x posts Slur (I now only have 1 hand)

I think it's an accumulation of all sorts - the work thing, I'm not where I wanted to be in life, finding Berlin difficult atm and ds1 is making me a little concerned atm - he is a fab boy but a couple of things he's started doing worry me - and goodness I am tired

Lovely milked out picture, he looks well fit and stoked with Life Franny.. good one X

For dinner I had steamed

butternut pumpkin
apple
carrot
potato
gerkin

Breakfast

The left over vege with tomato
Avocado
with bacon and eggs on side

bursting

î am getting into drinking abit of Aloe Vera juice this past month. I feel good for it.

It is hard. I was thinking tonight how hard it is to be a parent and a person at the same time. I think you can only do it sometimes if you close your eyes and just go with it for a bit.

How old is ds2? I found it incredibly hard for a long time with two. So many feelings and demands and it is bloody hard at times. Such a worry.

And then you have to consider being a contributing person in society too, and get back to work and be all snot-free and adult. It is not easy.

f+v:

oj
sesame seed and cucumber rolls

salad (lettuce, red pepper, carrot, apricots, sunflower seeds, parsley) with spelt-wheat burgers

rice with tomatoes

carrot cake

ds2 is 10 months, ds1 3.2. Not a big gap really.

We have such ideas, don't we, despite ourselves and experience, and it can be so tough not to live up to them. But amazing in the little bits of moments when we do. (Please forgive presumptuously generalising 'we').

that's funny about closing your eyes - the Germans have an expression for exactly that - 'Augen zu and durch' - literally 'close [your] eyes and [go] through'.

he is asleep. off to bed.

The weather site says it is 22°C here. At 1.30am. 22.

that is me, sweating.

Mine are now nearly 2 and nearly 4.

I find it very frustrating when my temper frayed by monotony doesn't live up to my ideals of parenting. It should. In my head I am a jolly good parent, it just sometimes gets lost in the passage to my acions.

How strange about that German phrase! it is apt though. Although it is NOT applicable to when you are driving and a car seems to be coming too close towards you, then you must NOT close you eyes. DP told me so.

I like the getting lost in the passage to your actions. That's it, isn't it? And the never-ending chasing what needs to be done while the plans to make a cash register with ds1 for his new play money (shopping current obsession) recede into the distance.

sleep well

Yes, those good intentions involving craft and imagination, that end up involving glue on the floor and you weeping into the paint pot.

Tis a joy.

Morning!!

I've been up for 2 hours and managed to fend off the tv. As soon as dh gets up with her on a Saturday he puts it on so then she expects it with me. Grrr. Doesn't get it though

I've had mango and nectarine so far.

There was a lot of stuff last night, but I feel like the late night stuff should be left in the morning, if that's ok. But I'm not ignoring the angst and things!

Hello

I agree, Pink.

It is baking here again. We are off to the beach. At the party dd went to after the fairy fair yesterday, I noticed my friend had lots of beach bags of stuff lining the hall. I said have you just got back and she said, no they leave it all packed and ready to go all summer and then they just grab a picnic and they're off.

Great organisation, I thought, that is what I will do, be ready to jump in the van in a flash. This will of course require reorganising all the bags post beach. I am not so great at that. We will see. Can't decide whether to go for a closer beach with rolling waves and more people or a further beach wth less people and lagoony pools for them to play in. I think I just answered my own question.

What is a yam anyway, I've never known, is it like a sweet potato?

No fruit yet. We only have apples this morning and I don't fancy one. The strawberries are infested with fruit flies.

Morning all

Pink you are a stronger woman than I

I love Billy Bragg too

Gonna take a chance on another mango today

DH is up. TV is going on.

Morning

Tatties I will join you in your mango chancery - I have one that I believe is on the cusp of hardness/cuntingness so with any luck it will be just right

well the aforementioned banoffee pie sits in my fridge being too sweet but that doesn't stop me taking a spoonful most times that I pass - I have probably consumed a WHOLE tin of condensed milk single handedly - but there was banana in it I suppose...

it must be so nice to live near the sea - we are as far from the sea as it is possible to be in this country.

-banana

bannoffe pie is achingly sweet anyway though, even if homemade, but I agree, pizza express ones are rank. We should tell them, it is a shame seen as the pizzas are so good.

no wait - the figs - have you had the figs in pizza express - they come with coffee - I can live with that but you could ask for tea and these darling baby figs that have been soaked in heady aromatic syrap and some creme fraiche - they are rather divine. Have those.