Apart from marking my son’s 20th month today has other implications for me, and for South Africa. Today would have been my 10th marriage anniversary and it is also Freedom Day here in South Africa. It marks the first democratic elections in South Africa in 1994.
Last year at this time I was still living with [...]
Entries from April 2009
April 27, 2009
Celebrating Freedom
April 27, 2009
20 Months : The Chatter Box
I will remember this phase in Robert’s life most as the phase of developing conversation. He is now at the stage where he watches people and things and gives running commentary about what he sees.
The other day I was walking with him at the beach front and one of the information billboards was about seals [...]
April 25, 2009
Winter For Sure
Today it rained almost for the whole day and Robert and I stayed at home. We listened to oldies on the radio, we built tower, and I tried to knit.. I had soup for lunch and finished with chocolate pudding with custard – not healthful at all. I hate to admit it but Robert liked [...]
April 18, 2009
Mom and Son Day
Yesterday I battled against another translation deadline, and my efforts in the past two days with this urgent translation ran my body down and I ended up with a terrible case of the flu.
I was excused off my day job for being sick but deadlines know no mercy, and the job had to be out [...]
April 11, 2009
Frogs and Beasts
I have many problems in my life, big huge headaches that are not going away anytime soon. For once in my life though I do not have men problems, I am happy to spend some time completely without the company of a grown man. For the time being I am sure they bring more problems [...]
April 11, 2009
Frustrated
No matter how hard I work I do not seem to be getting ahead. This does not only relate to small domestic chores and projects, but I am beginning to detect a certain futility in my attempts at getting out of the rut in general. Getting ahead in life and recovering from the setback posed [...]
April 6, 2009
Playing Catch up … Again
I had so many plans for my time off which started on Monday, but apart from an almost complete thorough cleaning project, defrosting a fridge that closely resembles an ice-age glacier and scheduling long-delayed dentist and ob-gyn appointments, I managed very little progress elsewhere. Needless to say that my blog is one badly neglected area.
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