Bad Mummy! No Cookie!

Katherine Stone of Postpartum Progress put the call out last week for photos to include in the Surviving and Thriving Mothers Photo Album.
I sent her my picture and it’s up there now.
I appreciate that she included my self-written caption, which recognizes that I’m parenting with a mental illness.
You know, I’ll heal from the divorce and [...]

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Homemade pizza – whole wheat crust, two kinds of mozzarella, mushrooms, spinach, herbed goat cheese and sundried tomatoes.
Dave Meslin’s blog post about his depression and despair and the resulting comments and conversations
Dinner and ranting and catching up with a single mummy friend
A weekend spent napping and reading and catching up with myself
Being referred to as [...]

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The other morning, The Mook ate breakfast while sitting on the couch and I ate mine while checking e-mail at the kitchen table.
(It’s our usual morning ritual, as neither of us are morning people.)
Within her reach was a nail file. Nothing fancy or even terribly rough. However, she got the idea in her head that [...]

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An update from 12/15’s post titled ‘Far From Grace‘:

I am owed money and I really need the cash to get my bank account out of overdraft. (Apparently, the cheque is in the mail.)
My camera died. (I went out and bought a new one. Can’t live w/o a camera. Dipped into some money I inherited that [...]

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Things that are making me pissy:

I am owed money and I really need the cash to get my bank account out of overdraft.
My camera died.
I am surrounded by construction and its related noise
The internet at my workplace is down and I’ve spent way too much time on the phone speaking to people many continents away [...]

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Oh let us rise
Above the bones
Let us remember the memories
Filled with compassion
Not scarred by hunger
No not blinded by the ashes of the past
My eyes have not seen it
yet it in my soul I know
No conception is hidden
Let there be love
I wanna go home
Take me home
I’ve got to go home
Take me home
And [...]

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Baby smiles and coos
Licorice allsorts
Joni Mitchell’s River
Sunny warm Sundays in November
Brand-new Halloween-themed pjs for The Mook for $3 and change.

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It started on the weekend. That tight-chest feeling. I picked up The Mook from school and found her wearing one of the extra sweaters they keep around. Because her dad had neglected to send her to school with a warm jacket, just the blazer that made up her English Bobby costume. Thankfully that was warm [...]

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