mad mad mummy

Halloween today! Pre-school was having a dress up day today, so Charley went as a fairy princess… beautiful girl.

I have been looking to buy a nice print for our lounge room - something to match my bright green and bright red couches.

But everytime I come across something i like, I can’t help but think to myself "that looks like something Charley could have done!"

So I put my thoughts into action, and went to my local variety store and bought two $8 canvases. And then, with a little direction, let Charley go to town. ...

Heavens knows how I managed it, especially considering over the last couple of months I have had the flu, an infected wisdom tooth, tonsilitis, a blocked gall bladder, mild septecemia and now the mumps!! But somehow through all of that I managed to fall pregnant - yay!! Very early days yet, so hoping it sticks, but thought that I should tell you all!!

I am so sick of being sick - it’s going on two months now! But what I really miss is the little routine I had going with Charley, which I think is the first thing to go out the window when someone gets sick.

But at the moment I am really missing Charley. Due to my recent ailment - the mumps - I haven’t really been with her for four days now. Friday she was at ...

No it’s not a spelling mistake. On top of it all, I have just found out that I have the mumps.

Great.

I don’t know whether they still have them, but I seem to remember reading in my mum’s old Woman’s Day mags the "Man Oh Man" section (I think it was called that) where women told about the silly things their husbands or partners did. Here is one of my own.

Last night, Richie was a darling and helped me clean up the kitchen. He opened the cupboard and pulled out the ...

Been MIA a little this week - Charley got that virus that has been going around as all you mums would know, when the kids are sick, all else seems to be abandoned!

But this week was a doozy, particularly Monday and Tuesday. Charley started getting a bit feverish on Sunday night, but on Monday night it got so bad that she started hallucinating - badly. She was screaming that she had bees all over her ...

Charley is just loving dancing - I can see her doing it for years to come. She is just a really musical child.

But there is something that comes with the territory that I didn’t expect. The mums are expected to help sew their children’s costumes for the end of year performance.

Now when it comes to sewing, I am a complete novice. So when I was presented with a nearly ...

Have you ever had a time where everything on every front seemed to be going wrong and then somehow magically turned around overnight? Well Thursday was a bit of a day like for me - on a business front and a personal front!

On the business front, we have been working with designers on the new mumspace.net design to coincide with the new release. And the designs we were getting were, well, AWFUL. ...

Having a little dilemma - I can’t find jazz shoes in Charley’s size! She needs them for her performance at the end of the year, but everywhere I am looking doesn’t have them any smaller than a size 8, and Charley is about a 5 or a 6! Was so upset the other day cause she was so excited about getting them, and then I couldn’t get them for her!

Anybody have any ideas as to ...