Madame Beauooovary and the hystersisters

This is a quickie post so you know we haven’t disappeared.  I am so so kn*ckered  I’m almost certain that someone else is using my body while I’m asleep, which is kind of rude as they never asked and they aren’t even paying rent.  Tsk.
My head is still kind of buzzy from the whiplash and [...]

PMDD is not all of me

Just because I have an illness that can hurl me deep into depression, it does not mean it rules my life all the time.
Just because I have a condition that can affect my moods and judgment, it does not mean my thoughts and feelings should be dismissed.
Just because sometimes my hormones make me scatty, forgetful, [...]

Guilty As A Girl Can Be – Mother’s Day Confessions

Sometimes our kids get the worst of us don’t they?
I’ve had my girls back just a few hours.  They arrived tired and buzzy and kind of highly strung and there was the sort of bickering that you know is going to lead to tears and trauma.  But instead of being that calm, patient, loving Mummy who [...]

Oh My Ears

I never believed it could happen.
To hear such language from my 9 year old, AND EVEN WORSE, to hear it at aimed at me, her mother – her moral compass, guardian of her social and emotional development,  tidier upper of her very messy room, and giver of pocket money and Kinder Buenos.
We’re in the lounge [...]

Done

I’m taking a little time away from my blog.  It used to be a place of escape, somewhere safe, but right now, for whatever reason it has become something else.  I don’t want to be part of the competition anymore I suppose.  It was kind of all I had that was just for me and [...]

Reasons to be Cheerful Part I

I have had the menstruation talk with Miss E.  It went well.  My 9 year old amazes me with her ability to take things in and deal.  She listened, asked a couple of questions, pulled a couple of faces, then wandered off to finish her Medusa mask for yet another school project.  I know we’ll [...]

That Taste Again

I’m spiralling again.  Down down down, a crumpled brown leaf swirling on a river of rain into the dark dank depths.  I know it’s my hormones.  I can actually taste it now.  A hint of metal, the oncoming of the red, and the grey and the black.  But at least I know why, and that [...]

Girl Stuff – Boys Can Read But I Take No Responsibility For Any Untoward Reactions

I am having a hormone crisis.
Sounds charming doesn’t it?  But it’s actually pretty vile and I feel like a raving loony.
It began 2 weeks ago with my body deciding ‘hey, why menstruate once a month when you can do it twice?’
Then we got the extreme exhaustion, sore head and scary dreams, culminating in no sleep, [...]

Female Male Pattern Baldness

When you’re in your 30s it’s not nice to realise you’re losing your hair.  
I mean, hair is important right?

It keeps your head warm

It frames your face

It’s useful for hanging out of high windows so that handsome men can climb up it 

And it’s good for hiding any strange growths on your neck, or an oddly [...]

Hanging on the telephone

Why is it that the day after you’ve achieved something you feel like pants?  Seriously I feel like a penguin who is too small to reach the biscuit shelf and can’t find the key for the chocolate cupboard.  Sighhhhh.
I’m sad.  Mr B’s mum has phoned and made me feel like the worse person on earth [...]