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Where is the Tin Opener?

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What a Wednesday. My partner-in-crime is out, and I think I'm ready for the evening crazies that start at 4pm, despite my 6 broken hours of sleep the night before. I set out the prep for my dinner and put #1 kid's food in the microwave. Then I try to find the tin opener and it has vanished. I remember that she's taken to thinking it's a hairbrush and pinches it out of the drawer, so she's taken it, or I've confiscated it and put it somewhere "safe". A cursory search yields only frustration for me. Then #1 yells for...

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Re-Purposed Tee Shirts

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I had some old kid tee shirts donated to me and while they were way, way too big for my baby, I didn't want to just throw them away or get rid of them because I liked the patterns. So I thought about making them in a quilt. But the prints were too big, and I don't have that much patience when it comes to quilting. It's not my jam. But I thought - hey, the baby will need some blankets - so I made them into small quilted blankets for the baby. When she out-grew them they went to...

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The Hiccup of Doom

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burst blood vessel in eye

Nobody likes being sick. But it happens, and we deal with it. But being sick and having kids makes you think wistfully about the times you took that day off work to feel miserable, alone, and sleep. With pregnancy #1 I got food poisoning at 6 months. I threw up so much I burst blood vessels in my eyes, which was both impressive and horrible at the same time. But kid #1 was very not sick for 18 months - thanks to both vaccines and the isolation that staying at home with mum can give you. Then kid #2 came...

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Finding time to write

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Sometimes I know what a book is going to do before I start. Sometimes I just start a book hoping it will write itself, and often it does. The book I'm on at the moment I have always vaguely known where it was going, it's just trying to get the characters there seems to be a hard one. This one grew organically. I started with a specific image in my mind and wrote that down. The characters came easily, and the first part of the story grew without me really trying. Then I got to a point where I figured...

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