"Edited to Add"....

This started as a pregnancy blog when I fell pregnant in May 2009 after four years of finding a donor, doing all the counselling / paperwork / tests and trying.

And now, thanks to a 4WD which skidded onto our side of the road, killing our baby daughter at 34w and injuring me, my partner and two of my stepdaughters on 27 December 2009, it has turned into something else. We didn't want this something else, but apparently it is all we've got to go on with.

Monday, July 25, 2011

Things that are lifting my heart today

1. This:


















Spring is inexorably on its way. The hairy tree roots down in this hole of mine are starting to come to life.

2. You lot.

3. El Prima sending me pictures of camellia trees bursting into flower like popcorn.

4. An afternoon with P and baby A yesterday - I love that in the one visit I can bounce around my current ideas for the conference paper I am writing with P, *and* practice my baby vocabulary and silly faces with A. ("Ah-goo!" or "Lal!" are my favourites at the moment)

5. The sheer revoltingness of the herbal mixture I am drinking twice a day from my naturopath, along with her confidence that I probably don't need her help to get pregnant anyway. We've had to cancel the next cycle because my work travel next week would have collided with egg pick-up, so this foul-tasting mixture at least lets me feel like something is happening until we start again in mid-August.

6. The tale of Custard the Dragon, and the fact that a friend who knows how much I love this poem just sent me a photo proving that Dulux have named one of their paints "Cowardly Custard".

5 comments:

  1. What a wonderful poem, a smile for you....
    Mid-August is not too far, sounds like hope is stirring.

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  2. I've never read Custard the Dragon before - it's wonderful! Holes are necessary, but so is sunshine, and I'm glad your heart is getting some lifting and hope that it continues.

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  3. Daffodils are blooming here. Seems early this year, but I'll take it.
    Glad there are things out there that can warm your heart this winter.
    xo

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  4. Yep. Those herbs are so bad, they're good. We'll be back in NSW on Aug 8th. xoxoxo

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