by Jackie Bailey | Jul 3, 2012 | Babies, motherhood, Random insights
Bubba has now been street side of the belly for longer than she was inside. Still, I told her the other day, “I invented you.” But I could never have invented everything about her. It’s more than I could have imagined. We have been through a lot of...
by Jackie Bailey | Jun 15, 2012 | Babies, motherhood, Random insights
Nothing brings home the fact that you are moving house so well as checking the weather forecast for the place you are going to. This coming week in Wollongong, it will be a bit cloudy with some rain, and cooler than Sydney. Which I had forgotten. Here I am, in a room...
by Jackie Bailey | May 1, 2012 | Random insights
I have been mulling over this post for ages now (hmm – probably since I was 12?) The topic always seemed too big to deal with in one feel swoop. But here goes! I just read this article courtesy of my buddy Lance. It’s about the ways in which modern...
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 25, 2012 | motherhood, Random insights
20 days ago, I wrote the post “Losing weight.” Since then, I have been on the waggon, off the waggon and now in the last two days, back on again. It appears I have lost about 2 kilos so far. 15 to go. In that time, I fell off the waggon when I got tired....
by Jackie Bailey | Apr 7, 2012 | Random insights
My husband was just reading on Business Spectator, about the anachronism of government regulated, public holidays. The author, Caleb Samson, makes the point that, workers can make the choice for themselves if they want to work on a public holiday like Good Friday, for...
by Jackie Bailey | Mar 20, 2012 | motherhood, Random insights
This morning I had a realisation. It was a bit late in coming, and for all my intelligence, there are some things that I am pretty slow on. I watched bubba play on her mat, and I thought about my own mum. I can be cynical about the world, and right now, various of my...
