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thoughts, ramblings & rubbish: The Sleep Diaries
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My son Kalani is a bad sleeper. Well that's not totally true actually, he's a bad sleeper-iner. The final straw came when he started to get up before 5am, every, single, day. In desperation I brought a toddler wake-up clock. To try and get our early riser to stay in bed until a more reasonable hour. These are the diaries of our struggles and experiences in trying to get K to stay in bed. You can click here. Was a surprisingly good start. Sees the initial flush of enthusiasm waning. The end of Week 1.
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thoughts, ramblings & rubbish: I'll Try Again Tomorrow
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Tuesday, 3 March 2015. I'll Try Again Tomorrow. A little while ago I had a really crappy day. You know the kind - starts off with a cold coffee and then just gets worse and worse. The main cause was clashing heads with Kalani over everything. Complaining, whinging, answering back, not listening to anything I was saying. He was driving me insane. I felt (and still feel) horrible. Because in the end, that's all any of us can do with anything in life - just keep trying. So whatever kind of day you've just h...
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thoughts, ramblings & rubbish: April 2014
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Friday, 11 April 2014. Those Pesky Green Nosed Canadians. I was on the toilet the other day, and Kalani was sitting on the other side of the door telling me a story (he still doesn't want to be left by himself). His story was about some good injra (ninja) turtles who were being attacked by a whole host of baddies. Firstly they were attacked by an Iron Man (no idea where this came from), then some monsters, and then finally . the Canadians. The Canadians. They had green noses and were very very bad. Bigge...
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thoughts, ramblings & rubbish: February 2014
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Saturday, 1 February 2014. My Nightmarish Day (aka "My new New Years Resolution"). This year I made a New Years Resolution. It was to Take part in a triathalon. I know. I'm actually laughing out loud while I'm typing this because that is so definitely NOT going to happen. Obviously I was quite drunk when this particular resolution was made. Well, no worries. I've never been particularly into making resolutions anyway. But then. IT happened. I had to get up, in front of the whole room and . Some people ar...
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thoughts, ramblings & rubbish: March 2015
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Tuesday, 3 March 2015. I'll Try Again Tomorrow. A little while ago I had a really crappy day. You know the kind - starts off with a cold coffee and then just gets worse and worse. The main cause was clashing heads with Kalani over everything. Complaining, whinging, answering back, not listening to anything I was saying. He was driving me insane. I felt (and still feel) horrible. Because in the end, that's all any of us can do with anything in life - just keep trying. So whatever kind of day you've just h...
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thoughts, ramblings & rubbish: March 2013
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Friday, 29 March 2013. I don't have many tricks in my 'How To Get Your Toddler To Behave' bag, just 3:. However, I've just discovered a new one . "Counting to 3". Seriously - who would have thought this works, but it really does. Kalani drops his bowl of crackers all over the floor. Me: Kalani please pick up your crackers. Me: Kalani, PLEASE pick up your crackers from the floor. They're going to make a massive mess and then I'm going to go crazy. Kalani: *starts to walk away*. Whatever. It works. Kalani ...
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thoughts, ramblings & rubbish: February 2015
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Tuesday, 24 February 2015. 2 Glasses of Wine. No Words. I've tried different variations of the wine to writing ratio. Too little wine, and there's not enough inspiration. Too much and there's more staring into space than actual writing. I even contemplated starting a spreadsheet to keep track of my findings, but that's just verging on crazy (Natalie! And would definitely qualify me as a full time procrastinator. So I stopped playing. Well I've just finished my first glass of wine. By my reckoning it'...
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thoughts, ramblings & rubbish: June 2015
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Friday, 5 June 2015. Watch What You Say. When Kalani was born we didn't change much about the way we spoke. We still used 'colourful' language, talked about other people, discussed Kalani and how little he was sleeping - basically nothing changed. Then, as Kalani started to grow, we started to watch what we said a bit more. I'm always curious to know what goes on in Kalani's mind, so I asked him what his 3 wishes would be. He said that his first wish would be to have lots of money that he would give to us.
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thoughts, ramblings & rubbish: Insane In Da Membrane ...
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Sunday, 25 January 2015. Insane In Da Membrane . Insane. In Da Brain . Remember that song. from the *cough* 90's? Ahhh - loved it. Anyway. Have you heard of Insanity? It's a crazy workout DVD series. Each session is anywhere between 45 minutes to an hour long, and the main aim is to make you throw up because it's so flipping hard. Yes, well, last year, when I turned 40, Dan gave me the Insanity DVD's for my birthday. I quite honestly NEVER thought that I'd be the type of person who did exercise because I...
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thoughts, ramblings & rubbish: February 2013
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Tuesday, 12 February 2013. I have no will power. This sucks for many reasons. One of the main reasons is that I really want a smoking hot body, but for this I know that I need to do two things: exercise and stop eating chocolate. The other way to (apparently) lose weight is to eat well. Hmmmm. Well I DO eat well, I eat chocolate very well indeed thank you! So you can see that I have no will power. None at all. I don't really mind too much, because pretty soon he won't want me to kiss him or cuddle him or...
