Yes Mum, everything’s fine
Posted: May 13, 2012 Filed under: LOVE, Parenting, Parents, Raising Hell, Theme Songs, Thought For the Day | Tags: Barbara Pollard, Barbie, mama, Mother Earth, mother lode, Mother Mother, mother of all days, Mother's Day Australia, mother's love, she built me in her belly, Tracey Bonham, World's best pavlova maker Leave a commentHappy, Happy Mother’s Day. Today is the day we say thank you to the woman who created us in her belly. Mothers love us more than anyone can and at the same time drive us completely mental. Even though I was the world’s most revolting teenager my mother would run in front of a train to save me. I’d do the same for my daughters, even though they think I’m bonkers and I make them crazy some days. I love you Mama. Thank you for having me and loving me. And for making your pavlova, no one has ever whipped up a pav better than you Barbara Pollard.
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Single Mother’s Day
Posted: May 13, 2012 Filed under: LOVE, Parenting, Parents, Self improvement, Thought For the Day | Tags: beautiful children, gratitude, Homage to single mothers, Hymn To Her, joy, love, mamapalooza, Single motherhood, The Pretenders, wisdom 2 CommentsJust when I think single motherhood is too crazy and I want to take them back to the pet shop to get a refund, I get this card from my 7 year old:
My mummy is so nice unique and pretty
Mummy I love you
Mummy I never want you to go away
You are the best mummy in the world
Love S
I did not pay her to do this. In the stressed out, overworked world of single motherhood we sometimes forget about the joy of mothering and that all the little tedious tasks of being a mother on your own add up to a lifetime of love and care for your children. So I’d like to pay tribute to all the solo mothers I’ve met, you inspire me with your hard work, dedication and devoted love. You are all yummy mummies.
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The night Max wore his wolf suit
Posted: May 9, 2012 Filed under: ART, LOVE, Parenting, Self improvement, Thought For the Day, WRITERS | Tags: 1928 births, A life well lived, Art Garfunkel, best selling authors, Bright Eyes, brilliant artists, Maurice Sendak, RIP Maurice Sendak, Spike Jonez films, Vale Maurice Sendak, Where The Wild Things Are Leave a comment‘And made mischief of one kind and another. His mother called him WILD THING!” And Max said “I’LL EAT YOU UP!” so he was sent to bed without eating anything.’
The brilliant artist and author Maurice Sendak died today. His books were a part of my childhood and I read them to my children.
Growing up in New York, the son of Polish Jews, he said,
“My childhood was about thinking about the kids over there (in Europe). My burden is living for those who didn’t.”
When director Spike Jonez made the movie version of “Where the Wild Things Are,” Sendak urged the director to remember his view that childhood isn’t all sweetness and light. And he was happy with the result.
“In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy” Sendak said in 2009. “There’s a cruelty to childhood, there’s an anger. And I did not want to reduce Max to the trite image of the good little boy that you find in too many books.”
“Kids don’t know about best sellers,” he said. “They go for what they enjoy. They aren’t star chasers and they don’t suck up. It’s why I like them.”
Vale Maurice Sendak, thank you for sharing your gift.
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Missing Sweet Angels
Posted: May 7, 2012 Filed under: LOVE, Theme Songs, Thought For the Day | Tags: bring them home, Lee Safar songs, missing children, Project Missing Sweet Angels, recording artist Lee Safar, Sweet Angels Leave a commentMissing Sweet Angels is a project targeted at using the power of social media to find six missing children from around the world who have been abducted by strangers. These children’s cases have now gone cold and any hope of finding them rests in the hands of the global population online. For more information go to:
http://missingsweetangels.com/
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Anzac Day
Posted: April 25, 2012 Filed under: AUSTRALIA, Theme Songs, Thought For the Day | Tags: ANZAC DAY, Lest we Forget, The Band Played Waltzing Matilda, The Pogues Leave a commentThey shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them
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You Are So Beautiful
Posted: April 24, 2012 Filed under: Birthdays, LOVE, Theme Songs, Thought For the Day | Tags: April 24 birthdays, Barbra Streisand, Divas, Happy Birthday, Jean Paul Gaultier, Joe Cocker, Paula Yates, Shirley Maclaine 2 CommentsToday is the day of the diva. Jean Paul Gaultier, Shirley Maclaine, Paula Yates and Barbra Streisand were born today. And my gorgeous middle child.
Happy 10th Birthday Mrs Moo, I love being your mother.
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A TED talk I loved
Posted: April 18, 2012 Filed under: Self improvement, Thought For the Day | Tags: a sense of love and belonging, Brene Brown, connection, creativity, fear, human struggle, humanity, joy, research on human connection, selective numbness, shame, TED talks, TEDx Houston, the power of vulnerability, vulnerability Leave a commentThis woman talks about the power of vulnerability and believing that we are worthy. She went to a therapist and said, “No family stuff, no childhood shit.” This is brilliant. “Practice gratitude and lean into joy. To feel this vulnerable…..”
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Love song dedications
Posted: April 16, 2012 Filed under: FOOD, LOVE, Self improvement, SONGS, Theme Songs, Thought For the Day | Tags: Big Love, Lenny Henry, peanut butter, Theophilus P. Wildebeeste Leave a commentI’ve got a big love….
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Caitlin Moran
Posted: April 4, 2012 Filed under: Self improvement, Thought For the Day, WRITERS | Tags: Caitlin Moran, English authors, feminism, feminist authors, Germaine Greer, How To Be A Woman, quotes, writing Leave a commentI’ve just finished reading Caitlin Moran’s marvellous book How To Be A Woman. It’s funny and discusses a lot of questions that modern, Western women are asking. I recommend reading it if the fact that women earn less than men annoys you and also if, to quote Caitlin Moran, ‘you have a vagina.’ But my favourite quote from the book is her view of feminism:
‘….Greer uses the words ‘liberation’ and ‘feminism’ and I realise – at the age of 15 – that she is the first person I’ve ever seen who doesn’t say them sarcastically, or tempered with invisible quote marks. She doesn’t say them like they are words that are both slightly distasteful, and slightly dangerous, and should be handled only at the end of tongs, like night soil, or typhus.
Instead, Greer says ‘I am a feminist’ in a perfectly calm, logical and entitled way. It sounds like the solution to a puzzle that’s been going on for years. Greer says it with entitlement and pride: the word is a prize that billions of women, for the span of human history, fought to win. This is the vaccine against the earlier pioneers’ failure. This is the atmosphere that would sustain us all in space; the piece of equipment we’ve all been missing. This is what will keep us alive.
…The word feels more exciting than swearing. It is intoxicating. It makes my head swim.’
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Happy Paddy’s Day parade
Posted: March 18, 2012 Filed under: SONGS, Theme Songs, Thought For the Day | Tags: Irish ancestors, Proud to be Irish, St Paddy's day parade, St patrick's Day, Summer In Siam, The Pogues Leave a commentTop of the morning to yer. This year I spent St Patrick’s Day dressed as a bright green and gold leprechaun with a mad bunch of Irish drunks quaffing Guinness at Randwick Racecourse. Oh what fun we had even though I was completely sober. My great grandmother Frances O’Shea was from Limerick so I figure it’s in the blood. Of course it was an Englishman, Edward Lear who made limericks popular in the modern world. To be sure. This is my favourite Irish band.
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