Category Archives: Chronicles of Sharnia

My Alternative To The Baby Shower – By Alice Grist

  I have written much about my friend Alice Grist over the years, and she has written many guest pieces for this website. She is the spiritual gal in the high heels who dabbles with the kooky in a down to earth fashion. She is a published author with two fantastic books and one on [...]

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I Was A Great Mum Today

I have punched out a lot of posts this year laced with my fears and insecurities about myself and mothering and any other thing. Today I had a most refreshingly positive day. I was able to harness the power of now and feel great about my mothering. I wrote yesterday about my fears of how [...]

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Love And Other Complicated Worries

“Yay! Are you going to lay down next to me tonight Mum?” “Yes I am” I said having finished reading Monte his bed-time story. Cowboy was cooking up a yummy dinner for just he and I tonight, so I took Monte to bed. I hopped into the single bed with Monte and put my arm [...]

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The Official Poem For This Particular Tuesday

At two-thirty my bum will receive a needle As my blood type you see, is rare. Prior to this I’ll be dining with my Cowboy in a cafe downtown, somewhere. My body will be out, but my mind is sorting laundry, As you understand, I am nesting My son is in childcare making yellow aeroplanes [...]

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The Final Countdown

Emotions are amplifed to level ridiculous and I feel like I am living on a different planet to everybody else. Do other preggy people feel this way? It’s disconcerting. With not really that long to go in the pregnancy I am starting to get nervous. Β It is virtually May and that means it is practically [...]

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