I know I pointed you towards Fern shortly after her daughter Robyn was stillborn. Anyway, she started blogging again and so now, I’m pointing you towards her blog and today, her daughter’s birth story.
Go and surround her with internet love, okay?
xx
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We were having a sort of okay morning before the post arrived. Amy kept escaping out into the big yard, to run around and when I brought her back inside, we had tears and tantrums. FYI baling twine is great stuff to tie gates shut. Too tricky for small hands to untie. Awesome.
She’d just had yet another tantrum and Susie, the puppy jumped all over her making it so much worse, when the mailman came.
Getting the post is exciting don’tyouknow. Probably because it involved the big yard, yet again.
I’m not sure what made her happier, the fact that we got something in the mail from school (letting me know what days playgroups and early learners is on) or the fact that we got a package from Disney containing a dvd AND I let her open it. To the best of her abilities that is.
I waited until Isaac went down for a nap, figuring anything new to keep her quiet during naptime was a good thing, before putting the dvd on.
Now I must admit, I’m not a big fan of kids cartoons. I let Amy watch them most mornings and during dinner prep, but I don’t watch them myself very often. Kids movies, well, that’s a different matter, but we’re talking cartoons here.
So I put Handy Manny – Tooling Around on. Amy curled up on the couch to watch it. I checked emails, got some writing done and watched her reactions.
Dude, she was quiet! QUIET.
The dvd has an autoplay feature (Fastplay?) at the beginning, which was fantastic because I couldn’t find the dvd remote in the beginning. It was less fantastic 40 minutes later when it started playing again, without me touching it, meaning that either I brave the tantrums and turn it off anyway, or let her watch it again.
I’m not feeling very brave, I’m letting her watch it again.
Handy Manny offers messages about teamwork, friendship and community, while having fun with friends. I’m not sure how much of it sunk in to Amy’s head, but it’s not a bad thing for her to be learning at all. If she doesn’t bash Isaac on the head when they play with the building blocks later I’ll be inclined to look twice at the dvd.
The bonus features were a bit beyond Amy – I’m not encouraging her to learn to use the dvd remote just yet, it’s bad enough that she knows how to work the machine by herself.
So that’s that. Anything that gives me 40 minutes peace and quiet can only be a good thing!
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Take some leeks from the garden.
Make your kitchen hand (partner) peel some potatoes.
Chop everything roughly.
Amy thinks potato cubes are for building with.
Saute it off with some bacon and cover with chicken stock. When soft, use a blender or a stick mixer to puree it.
Serve with cream and parsley.
Also – take photos of the summer sky:
I blame Zoeyjane for this weeks weekly winners, I was going to make tomato and onion soup, but then she made potato and leek soup and I remembered I had a bunch of leeks that needed using and there you go. Potato and leek soup.
For more weekly winners see Lotus.
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I noticed an odd referring URL today when I was checking my stats.
So, as you do, I clicked to follow it back, to find out where people were clicking from.
I wasn’t expecting to find this though:
The web server you are attempting to reach has a list of IP addresses that are NOT allowed to access this site and your IP address is on this list.
Maybe poking at the Premier gets you blacklisted.
Heh.
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Actually, I was under no illusions I would be allowed to check out where the visitor had been referred from, due to the Admin part of the URL. I bet if *you* click over to the site, you will get the same blocked message.
And of course it’s probably just a wording issue that SHOULD say ‘IP addresses of ALLOWED computers have been logged and unfortunately, you aren’t on the safe list. Go away.
But what if it’s not?
According to my stats, they clicked over to me a bit earlier from Bleeter’s blog – Bleeter the Serial Government Botherer – so it *could* be a blacklist.
Things like this amuse me.
Thoughts?
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