Sugar skulls for Dia de Los Muertos - I want to make some!
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Cheese and ham toasties - with red onion and tomato - dipped in tomato chilli jam
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Designing my own bookmarks - dead proud!
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A shopping trolley laden with groceries, all the essentials, which this week included two child sized broomsticks and a bunch of flowers for myself.
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A shopping trolley laden with groceries, all the essentials, which this week included two child sized broomsticks and a bunch of flowers for myself.
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Our four-year-old on seeing her school Principal in the shop: "Look Mummy, there's the bell ringer".
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Supper cooked for me on work days
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The new BBC3 comedy drama, Cuckoo about a hippy guy - it SO reminds me of my siblings!
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Anticipating mid-term break - no early mornings, lunch boxes, fights over socks or tights and getting dirty looks when the kids walk in late, again...
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A publishing contract
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The smell of autumn
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The blog's new look
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Second book now being printed
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Snuggling with my boy who's supposed to be asleep as he tells me about space rockets and oil tankers
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Aisling, she just makes my heart sing.
Lovely moments of joy! And it DOES smell like Autumn, doesn't it? My children have started the countdown to Christmas, eek!!
ReplyDeleteHaha, our 7 yo said "can you feel the Christmas spirit?" last week! Mine start the countdown to next Xmas on December 26th!!
Deletea publishing contract!!? or tomato chilli jam?, not sure which excites me most. ;)
ReplyDeletecome add your link girl!
Thanks Mon, done, Amy will be along too from the Daily Muttering, have shouted out on the Irish Parenting Bloggers page to my sister Revolutionaries.
DeleteYes. A publishing contract. It's been complicated, not the unalayed joy which you might expect. But I'm allowing myself to soak it up and celebrate now, hence the flowers!
Congrats on the contract, and the jam! :)
ReplyDeleteWe will be making sugar skulls this week -- I ordered the molds from the place you got your photo!!
How inspiring to read about your new publishing contract. I always visiting your blog to read what you are up to and thinking about. Cheers, Julie
ReplyDeleteHmm, that was meant to be "I always enjoy visiting..."
ReplyDeleteGreat to see you again, Stacy. Thanks to you, and Julie for the congrats. It is very exciting.
ReplyDeleteHa, hadn't even noticed, Julie! I read in shorthand!!
ReplyDeletelove you x x
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