Hortus Deliciarum

Why yes, I’m up at 2.15 am. Why do you ask? My sleep has gotten increasingly worse over the last month and at the moment my weird sinusy-flu bug is not helping at all. I simply can’t find a comfortable position where, upon dozing off, I’m not almost instantly startled awake by not being able […]

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Christmas is always an expensive time of year, although I think we make a good effort to keep costs down and not spend money we don’t have (I don’t have a credit card in the UK, for example). The kicker comes when a sudden pileup of other expenses shows up at the same time. This […]

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Our current toddler phase is not bringing out the best Mummy in me. I daresay I’m actually doing a really poor job right now of coping with my little monster…and I’m just not sure what to do about it. Ciaran’s just at such a strange developmental stage – strange to me, anyway. His vocabulary has […]

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Why yes, this post is currently coming at you at 1 AM. Now WHY, why, why would the mother of a 17-month-old who’s currently functioning on 13 cumulative hours of sleep over the last two nights be up at 1 AM? Because her screaming little tyrant of a son can’t sleep. Oh. Woe. Apparently midnight […]

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As you can probably guess, I’m grumpy today. What’s that, you say?  Heidi, you are ALWAYS grumpy.  Au contraire, I reply!  I am ALWAYS sarcastic and cynical but I’m not generally grumpy.  In fact, I usually think the best of people and like to be around them, at least the ones that I know. But […]

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A few things I feel like saying, in no particular order: * Bookworm Adventures is addictive like crack (although I have never taken crack, mind you). I am therefore WAY behind on work! * Stitching on my Gift of Stitching’s Historical Countries Mystery Sampler is addictive like crack too. I wish I were at home […]

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