random blog thoughts
Too busy to post much this week, so here are random things that have happened to us:
- Nell is going to her new dance lessons. It's jazz ballet which is not quite ballet enough for her. I thought the broader dance thing would be good for her but next term it's all barre, pink tights and fairy steps for Nell.
- Zac's last soccer match is tomorrow. His love affair with organised sport has been all encompassing and soccer has been his life. His week has revolved around training, playing with his soccer mates at school and the all important Saturday morning game and post match re-hash. He is such a boy. Still, none of that has meant that he'll continue next year - he's moving on to AFL.
- Soy has been in Melbourne at a conference. He was gone for two nights which I managed fairly easily. He was sick before he left so I was handling the kids alone anyway and the truth is, solo parenting is no longer the epic task it used to be. When he got back last night Nell declared "I had forgotten what Daddy looked like". Two nights! It's the quick and the dead with Nell.
- I've been working, hanging with friends and reading about Medieval death rituals, purgatory and the plague. To lighten things up I am engrossed in glossy women's mags. Soy and I are revamping the mag we edit to give it a bit more va-va-voom, so I am turning to Vogue et al for inspiration. Demons eating souls...glossy chicks with glossy skin. It's not as much of a contrast as you might think.
Finally, here is a photo of my tiny neice. Really she's not so tiny but she is only 2 and a half months old. Maybe to other people she looks just like a baby but to me she looks like family. I'm sure it's a weird biological imperative that she be familiar to those most likely to care about her. She is just like Lee only smaller, cuter and without the facial hair and tattoos. She's already got the eyebrows.
