Sickies :(

It seems that the reality is that I will not be blogging a lot while I’m at home. I’ll certainly pick it up again when I’m back at work. I just really don’t have the time or energy, despite having lots to say and talk about. Babyice seems to be doing okay. He is sick [...]

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Bad news

So my grandfather got the results from his tests. The cancer has not spread to his stomach, but he is going to die anyway. The doctors say there is nothing more they can do for him. Surgery is not an option. They can’t tell him how much time he has left. Maybe 3 months, maybe [...]

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My first Mother’s Day

I was planning on going to church, but the weather SO foul. I didn’t want to take Babyice out into the sheets of rain and gale force winds. I was awoken by a phone call (around 7:15am) from my grandfather. He is in agony, he says. He thinks he has kidney stones or gall stones [...]

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Bonding with your baby

The first person to tell me I might not immediately bond with my baby once he/she was born was Oprah. She had a candid tell-all show with moms where they came clean on all the things they wish they were told. This was one of the things that came up. I had a lot of [...]

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Random updates

So…Rudi has gone back to work. His boss has put a tracker in the vehicle he drives and he has to fill in a log book with times and ask clients to sign the book when he is there. So his boss is keeping a close eye on him, but that is okey since he [...]

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The Job Debacle

Remember this post about Rudi’s job prospects? I would advise you to read it before reading this post, if you haven’t already. It was all too good to be true and last Wednesday it blew up in his face. Someone told Rudi’s current employer about his prospective employment at this ‘competitor’ and that Rudi had [...]

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I hit my internet cap

Wah. Yeah. I realized (too late) that *something* on my new laptop was downloading TONS of data while I wasn’t looking, sending my bill to over R1000.00! Luckily I have a friend that is in the IT industry and he helped me find out what it was. We switched it off. Now that my data [...]

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