Megan Bayliss's commentsComments On: EverythingArticles Blogs Journals Photos created by: EveryoneMegan First Post - Journal Entry04 Aug 2006 02:41 PM Hi shooter the site works well enough for me. I LOVE it and hope you do too. Things You'll Never Hear Your Spouse Say - Blog Entry04 Aug 2006 02:35 PM Lets go shopping together. We both hate shopping and fair dinkum we wail until theres no food left before we start to cajole each other into going to the get groceries. He flatly refuses to shop with me because I am a label reader and compare prices. I refuse to shop with him because he just grabs things off the shelf and puts them in the trolly without checking salt, sugar and fat contents or price. Neither of us would ever say, lets go shopping together, but as soon as either one says want to go out for cofee, sunnies, keys and bags are in our hands and were out the door. What not to say to people in distress (1) - Blog Entry04 Aug 2006 02:04 PM We've had two deaths in a fort night. The second funeral is on Monday. The second death has affected me far greater than the first because of my closeness and supportive role to the woman. It has annoyed me greatly that people stopped offering their condolences for the second death because they had only just seen me and cried with me over the first one. I had moments of wanting to go and shake people and scream at them, "Linda is dead". For those who read my journal entrys on Linda's death, I sat there bawling as I wrote those - even though the genre is comedy. The most wonderful statement that anybody has ever made to me in my moment of need was my son coming and asking if he could make me a cup of tea. I'm dreading and Monday. Mandated Parenting Education - Blog Entry02 Aug 2006 03:48 PM Compliance parenting through separation rarely works in my experience. I understand the sheer frustration of judges who daily see the trauma children have to endure because parents are unable to mediate or manage their emotions but forcing someone to do something or else is a punitive measure that may produce further dissonance for the kids. Ideally I would love to see healthy parenting taught to kids from day one - the development of emotional resilence and an empathic base of understanding can go a long way in ensuring that kids grow into functional adults who genuinely care about others - even those they may want to divorce in future years. Oh my goodness there's another one! A twin tale... - Blog Entry02 Aug 2006 03:38 PM After three births where I didn't know the gender of the baby I sucummed to curiousity and was eager to know what number 4 was. The excitment of producing a gendered unknown addittion was well and truely gone by fourth time round! I liked the getting to know him phase with the fourth one. His name was chosen from the day we found out his gender and he took on a reality of existence in our family. There was some speculation over my first pregnancy that there may be twins. My panic was soon quietend though when further investigations supported that babies heart was just so strong that a bounce produced an echo heart beat. I've have never forgotten that moment of torture when the doctor innocently said "Twins". I was 18, had dropped the idea of doing medicine to marry the one I thought was the love of my life, knew two weeks after I'd married that I'd made a huge mistake, fell pregnant almost immediately, and now I'm having twins. I couldn't get my head around it. What had I done to deserve so much pain. My single baby was huge and was born by cesearean, as was the next one because he was exactly the same size. The next two were much smaller but because I'd previously had two cesears I was not considered a candidate for a natural birth. My eldest daughter (23) fancies having twins. I wonder if this is based in her earliest consciousness of hearing the doctor say "Twins"!!!!! This is my first entry at families.com - Journal Entry02 Aug 2006 01:08 AM Hello lovesphotography. Lovely, honest and open journal. Thank you for letting me read it. I have 4 kids, LOVE scrapbooking, am a dreadful photographer (despite my strong desire to be great) and live in Cairns, Australia. I journal every day as a way to hone my creative writing but no-one ever comments. I have wondered if reading other's journals is a cultural taboo so please do let me know if you don't want me to read yours. Where abouts in the U.S are you? A school of only 39 sounds divine. Megan Prenatal Visit - Journal Entry01 Aug 2006 01:42 PM I so hope you keep your journal up. What a wonderful way to share. Tax Free Holiday Savings - Blog Entry01 Aug 2006 11:24 AM How amazing. Thanks Nicole. I've never heard of such a thing but I just adore the concept. We don't have anything quiet so wonderful in Australia I'm afraid. I usually only ever buy when something is on sale. This drives my partner and kids crazy but it's the way I've always been. Because Bali, Singapore and Hong Kong (all low cost shopping meccas) are within a non stress plane leg from Cairns most of my friends go off for a yearly shop-a-thon. I can't think of a worse holiday myself because I HATE shopping. If I am travelling internationally I usually buy the big items (ie: camera) duty free. A tax free weekend, YAHOO! I cant wait until my accountant husband gets up so I can tell him all about it. Just out of interest - how much tax goes onto goods? We have a standard 10% Goods and Services Tax. Food is tax free. Kid Friendly Websites: Yahooligans - Blog Entry01 Aug 2006 02:04 AM Thanks Emily, we'll be looking the site up. My youngest son drives me crazy with wanting to go to different sites. I'll check it out. Country Home: Good Neighbors and Watermelon - Blog Entry28 Jul 2006 01:48 PM Country conversations are always so different. I love them. I have lived in some HUGE cities around the world and lived in some tiny, tiny towns in Australia. Give me the common sense, community spirited banter that goes with country living any day. It's just such a shame that I can't earn sufficient funds to survive, by doing what I'm good at, in the country. I compensate my making regular visits and weekend stays to outlying areas. My dream is to have a publisher pick up some of my writing, give me a fantastic advance, and then I can move to the country and use my country engorged senses to write. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 |
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