"Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world...
June 28, 2013
June 26, 2013
An Invisible child, a Special child
It took me awhile to even start writing this post, because when it comes to Yon, things are always so much more complicated. Being a parent to a child like Yon brings with it so many difficulties that you can't imagine beforehand. It starts with the most banal question of all, what to call his condition? Is he a disabled child? a special-needs child? a Special child?
The outreach advisor...
June 24, 2013
My life in books
I planned so many different things for this post. I was going to write about imperfect parenting (to get myself in a Blogging Carnival for the first time ever), I was going to write about our latest Yon meeting at nursery (where we learned about him being a part of what is called children with "invisible disabilities", how hard it is to get the help you need from the school system, and how...
June 20, 2013
Smart kids and lost innocence
My aim was to write a funny post this time. I know you don't believe me, but I was going to write a funny post. I was even going to open with a joke. I had it all planned out, I really did. Right until the moment were Ron came home from school in distress.
You have to understand, Ron doesn't have bad days at school. Ron doesn't do distress. It is so rare for him, that it can only mean one thing...
June 17, 2013
How I ruined Father's Day
We usually don't "do" Father's day, because up until now I only had one view of it, and to put it as plainly and crudely as I can, up until this year, I always saw Father's day as a made up day that is solely intended to lessen the importance of mothers. Father's day is how men are trying to steal our one day a year that recognizes the fact that motherhood is a tough...
June 13, 2013
Weight-less or Weight-loss
This is a story I have wanted to tell for quite some time but always chose not to. I am not sure why I want to tell it, and not really sure why I didn't. It's not like you can call me shy, I tell you most of everything, but for some reason I felt I couldn't write about this.
I usually try that every post will have a purpose, at least in my mind, and this one's purpose always seems to elude me - is...
June 10, 2013
Summertime
Summer is here, and the blogosphere is awash in summer-posts, summer-lists, and my "favourite" summer-survival guides. What do all these things have in common you ask? Well isn't it obvious? (No. I don't mean summer.) They all want to help you deal with those vacationing little monsters also known as your kids. So I decided, because a) I don't want to be left behind, and b) because maybe the real...
June 7, 2013
Letting go
How good are you in letting things go? I am ever so terrible in it. I missed a TV show by Sarah Millican, who I find really funny, even though I did know about the show a week in advance and all it required of me was to set the Sky box (or whatever it's called) to record it on time. Yet I didn't, and as we were entertaining that night, completely forgot about it. It came back to me the...
June 4, 2013
FoMo and us
You know the saying "you learn something new every day"? well, yesterday I learned about FoMo. If you are like me, you've probably never heard of FoMo, and are now looking at the screen going "what the hell is she on about now?! Isn't it enough that she wrote about frugal last time?!" Well, first of all apparently all the cool kids are writing about frugal these days, haven't you heard...
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