I don’t mean to be rude but…..
Posted: June 26, 2016 Filed under: LOVE, MARRIAGE, Single Motherhood | Tags: blessed, escapism, grateful, I've heard it all before, lucky, Madonna - Sorry, Norway, single mother holiday, single mother sanity, single mothers chasing vikings, single mummies, solo parenting, travel 3 CommentsWhen married people say,
“My husband/spouse/ball and chain is away for a weekend, a week or three months, so I’m a single parent,” I grit my teeth.
No, you’re not. Your partner, though absent, is still contributing financially and emotionally to the other partner’s well being and that of the children. and when the absent partner returns they often do things that compensate for their absence. Single parenting with no other parent helping financially, mentally and emotionally on a day to day basis is not how children should be raised. It’s too much stress on one person.
Stress makes us humans crazy and sick, so my oldest childhood friend and I, who is also a single mum, have escaped. By the time you read this we will be somewhere in Norway searching the fjords for strapping vikings. Our dear friend bought us air tickets so we could attend his wedding in Oslo. I won the lottery when it comes to the wealth of my friendships. Skal!
Motherhood is not what you gave up to have your kids, but what you gained from having them
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If voting changed anything they’d make it illegal
Posted: June 19, 2016 Filed under: AUSTRALIA, Politics | Tags: auspol, Australian Politics, climate change, Federal Election 2016, Great Barrier Reef, Jo Cox legacy, Prime Minister, single mom politics, single mother worries, UB40 If It Happens Again, voting Leave a commentPolitics? Anyone still interested? In Australia we are near the end of one of our longest ever election campaigns. In the US the fun has barely started.
Our world is in a mess.
Australia’s land clearing emissions have nearly doubled in the last three years. Most Australians want the Great Barrier Reef saved at the expense of coal mining. Idiot conservatives who have protected paedophiles for decades want to waste hundreds of millions of dollars on a same sex marriage plebiscite, babies are being harmed in detention centres, and many of our politicians pay lip service to ending violence against women. Funding to the arts and education have been slashed.
For the future health of our children, no further open cut mining or coal seam gas drilling should be permitted in residential or good agricultural land or near our waterways. Our long-term future is more important than coal, and nothing can replace the loss of our food bowl. To ensure a fossil fuel-free future we must vote the dinosaurs out of our parliaments.
This election, vote wisely. On Saturday July 2nd, we get to decide our next prime minister (until he gets knifed in the back by one of his party faithful).
Please think about what you’re voting for. You control your preference in the order you choose. Handouts at the polling booth are the way each party wants you to vote for their own best results, which is usually not the ideal outcome for the future of our country. It is time to make our votes count. We must honour the legacy of Jo Cox.
Your vote is powerful.
In the voting booth, everyone is equal – Barbara Boxer
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That’s good enough for me…
Posted: June 12, 2016 Filed under: FEMINISM | Tags: ageing, Chaka Khan, Cookie Monster, dementia, Elder Clowns, family members with dementia, I like to sing, music therapy, old age, PRINCE, scientific studies, senility, Sinead O'Connor, singing dancing and Clown Doctoring, singing is good for the soul, songs in the key of life, Stevie Wonder 2 CommentsLast week I arrived at my mother’s nursing home to find she was watching Julie Andrews on the big screen TV with a group of other residents. She was very happy singing along to Edelweiss and Climb Every Mountain.
Then I read that a study by U.S. scientists has shown that the brain function of those suffering from dementia can be improved if they belt out their favourite show tunes.
Researchers working with elderly residents at a US East Coast care home in a four-month long study found that people who sang their favorite songs showed a marked improvement compared to those who just listened.
Among the songs sung during 50-minute sessions were hits from The Wizard of Oz, Oklahoma and The Sound of Music.
The most improvement was among those sufferers with moderate to severe dementia. I must keep my mama singing.
When my kids put me in a home for bewildered single mothers, hopefully I’ll be busting some moves to Gett Off by Prince, and my favourite Stevie Wonder and Chaka Khan tunes. But I’ll probably be warbling, “C is for Cookie, Cookie, Cookie, Cookie start with C. Yeah!” on repeat.
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Winner, winner, dog food dinner
Posted: June 5, 2016 Filed under: TRAVEL | Tags: finding love on the internet, love me some spam, money money money, single mother delusions, take a ticket and join the queue, unsolicited emails from admirers Leave a commentYou won $1.25M AUD in the ICC WORLD TWENTY20 PROMO 2016 with Reference [INDIA-RSA-PRT-279-30-2016]. Reply to; mla.icct20@gmail.com or call 00447937349377 for details. T’s and C’s apply!
Can’t hardly believe it or not, I am a winner. My astrologer told me that 2016 was going to be tops for someone with a moon in Uranus and now I’ve won enough to put a deposit on a house only three hours from Sydney. Incredible.
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