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Dippity

Ringlets!

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I’ve always wondered how to rag hair so that you get ringlets – you know, like in Little Women or I guess Little House on the Prairie.

So yesterday I checked out this video and had a go, using Dippity as my model.

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It was much easier than I thought it was.

Doesn’t she look cute?

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This morning at about 8 o’clock, and believe me, that is very early for my little chicken, she asked me to help her take out the rags.

OMG.

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Miss Scarlett, eat your heart out!

It really worked.
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Guess how soon after this photo was taken that Dippity jumped in the shower to wash it out?

Yes.

About 30 seconds.

Ah well, at least she won’t rush out to get a perm now.

Mission accomplished.

Although… thinking about it… how many manga characters have curly hair?

Exactly.

None.

A perm is probably low risk.

Hugamuga, Parenting, Travel

First Job

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My boy started his first job today.  Yes.  A proper job requiring a bank account, commitment and well… work.

He’s doing the paper round.  

He’s being paid 10 cents a paper and delivering about 130 papers.  He has 24 hours to deliver them.  So far he’s done half and spent nearly two hours doing it.

You do the math.  He’s not being paid much but he is being paid and not by me.

I’m so proud of him.

He’s still to work out the most efficient way of delivering papers.  At the moment he has a satchel which can only carry about ten papers – and he’s on his bike – so he has to continually come back and forth to the paper depot – read house – to stock up.

But I have confidence he will.

So what has brought on all this industriousness?

Well he has the opportunity to go on a trip with World Challenge, a trip which will cost $7,000.  That’s a lot of dough but fortunately (for us) the team at World Challenge believe that part of the challenge is to raise the money yourself – by working.
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Oh and he wants to buy – and build – his own computer.

The paper round is a first step.

Can you remember your first job?  I worked in Dad’s office for my first job – photocopying in the library.  There was a tea lady who remembered what you liked to drink – in those days for me it was white tea with two sugars – and left a couple of biccies on your desk in the morning and in the afternoon.

Brilliant.

The other thing I remember is getting my pay in a little brown envelope – in cash – down to the cent.

It was SO satisfying.

I think kids miss out a bit on that these days with everything going electronically.

Mind you… it will be easier to save that $13!

Parenting

Growing my gorgeous girl

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I was half-listening to the radio this afternoon while purging my filing cabinet, answering emails and dealing with spot fires – you know, the little problems that crop up that you have to deal with – and they were talking about growing gorgeous girls…

I’ll find out the name of the book and author for you but the guts of it was that because your daughter is so “relationship aware” you need to make sure she knows she is cherished.

Growing Great Girls by Ian Grant

You need to spend time listening to her talk about her day. The author even suggested making a scrapbook of her life so that when she is 14 she can sit in her room when she’s feeling unloved and have a tangible record of your love for her.

If you do all this, he says (he wrote the book with his wife), your daughter is more likely to talk to you when she has problems.

Well I don’t have a scrapbook of Dippity’s life, but I do have this blog. Does that count at all?

I asked her what she thought. Did she feel loved? (yes, but not as much as her brother – to be fair he’s just found out that he might get to go on a trip to India or Borneo with the school)

Does a blog count? “Totally! I can’t lose that.” (well… maybe you can’t but I nearly did!! And what if the power goes out.)
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The hardest thing for me at the moment is balancing being there for her and being there for work.

I thought it would get easier as she and her brother got older but I’m not finding it the case. I think tween and teenagers need you more… or more of you.

Yes, they are more independent. They can get their own breakfast, pack their own lunches (but they prefer me to make them), set the table and do a great job cleaning up afterwards. They can organise their own social life – they don’t need me to set up play dates anymore.

Emotionally though – I think as a parent you play a greater role and, as the holder of the boundaries, you are sorely tested.

As I heard one caller say today – you are not their friend, but their parent.

So Dippity and Hugamuga – know this: I love you. With all my heart and all my being.

(and no, no more computer time for you two tonight – it’s bedtime!)

Groover, Hugamuga, Parenting, Recipes

Teaching the boy to cook

Isn’t bolognese the easiest thing to cook? It’s my go to dish when I really can’t be bothered. The kids will eat it – it doesn’t take long or too many ingredients.

Well the other night my son walked past me as I was chopping up the onion and I thought – hey – he could learn how to cook this and bolognese would become even easier to make – I could make it from the couch! Oh and besides, a good mother teaches her son to cook… right?

No sooner had I mentioned it when Groover pipes up. “Make sure you break up the mince” he says, “don’t cook the onion too fast” he mentions and before I knew it – he’s in the kitchen.

Bonus I thought and left them to it!

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Cooking with Dad

Cooking with Dad

Cooking with Dad

Now that’s what I call being a good mother. 😉

Hugamuga, Parenting

When to let your teenager off the leash

Today is Hugamuga’s Independence Day.

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This is Hugamuga in 2002, a somewhat younger version – aged 8, I wouldn’t have let him go alone at this age. 🙂

Today, he met his friends on the train, travelled to Adventure World (two trains and a bus), enjoyed the day with his mates and returned home. He was responsible for organising himself, his money and his lunch. I did ask that he ring me when he left home so I knew he was on the road (and could begin worrying). He’s 13.

It was a scheme dreamed up by his friends at school. This one mate worked out the plan and invited his classmates and then whoever showed up showed up. Four showed up.

They had a blast. Roaming Adventure World in a little pack. I asked Hugamuga:

“So is it more fun with there with his mates or his family” (we go every year for a work Christmas party)
“Oh with my family of course!”
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“Definitely with my mates!”

Yeah right.

My heart was in my mouth. Sure it’s just a mum cutting another of the apron strings (guffaws of laughter from friends imagining me wearing an apron), another step towards independence… but it was a milestone.

Not that I wrap the kids in cotton wool. I’ve let them walk to the corner shop on their own for years. I encourage them to walk to school, to their friends houses. Hugamuga rides his bike to training on his own…

Two trains and a bus.

W00t.

Hugamuga, Travel

What is it with boys and holes?

We arrived in Dunsborough yesterday.  Perfect blue skies.  Perhaps slightly on the warm side.

The house we are staying in is on a bush block.  Tuart and Marri trees, some dying back.  Grasstrees (once known as Blackboys) abound, their fruiting spikes now dry and sometimes broken.  Prickly bushes in the low scrub. 

The decking out the front looks out through the bush, over the flats (once farmland, now housing estates) to Geographe Bay.  At night with the full moon, the bay gleams silver.

We go for a walk to look around the property and when we get back I find the patio umbrella and go to put it on the decking so we can sit in the shade and take in the birdsong.

There is a grasstree spike in the umbrella stand.

WTF.

Hey some idiot has put a grasstree spike in the umbrella stand, I exclaim, never thinking for a second it would be one of my kids.

It was Hugamuga.  13 years old.
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What were you thinking?  I say with some disbelief in my voice.

I dunno… it was there.

I throw my hands in the air. 

Well you’d better work out how to get it out of there, my boy, and while you’re there please reflect on the wisdom of filling holes with what comes to hand just because they are there.

If you do that when you start going out with girls, the consequences could be dire!

After all, there’s nothing like a little teenage embarrassment to drive a point home.

And you’ve got to admire my ability to get a sexual responsibility message across at every opportunity.  🙂

Creative Commons License photo credit: oceanic

Family

Code nine

Yeah I know. Butter wouldn’t melt would it? But my little angel has her secret side.

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While away, I caught her saying “code nine” to her brother as I came into the room. It didn’t take much to extract an explanation.

Apparently “9” is what she writes while chatting to friends on Puzzle Pirates or Club Penguin to indicate that a parent is lurking. Just to warn the friend not to write anything incriminating.

She’s 10!

If I wasn’t worried about teenager-hood, I am now. 🙂

Do your kids have codes you’ve come across? We parents need to stick together!

Family, Hugamuga

Last day of childhood

My beautiful boy turns 13 tomorrow.

Asleep

Son about 5 months old
Boy in a backpack

Autumn

Rottnest

Mates

At The Royal Show

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Footy Trip

He is very excited to be turning 13 on Election Day. I think we should have “party pies” in celebration.

Geddit?! Party pies!

*chortle*

Have a great day my beamish boy!

Family, Modern Life

Don’t say I told you so

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Friday night – less than a week after purchase of son’s mobile phone.

“Where’s your phone?”

“Um…..”

“Right, off the computer – go and find it.”

Saturday afternoon – exactly one week after purchase.

“So, did you find your phone?”

“Ummmm…”

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“Playing soccer at the primary school on the way home?”

“Well, you better go and look there!” [mutters] “While I continue to dig through the mess on your floor.”

10 minutes later.

“Hey mum.  I found it!!”

He found it.  On the grass in the middle of the oval.  A brand new phone.  Left outside overnight. 

Not.  Happy.  Jan.

Family, Modern Life

Don’t phone home, we’ll phone you!

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Following Feline’s advice, I’ve bought The Orchid Hunter a new phone. It cost $199 and serves as his birthday present.

He loves it.

I took him with me to choose it – we bought it from Crazy John’s because the guy in the shop was so helpful and attentive and gave good advice I think and because Crazy John himself died this week and it was like I was wishing him well.

Bryan from Crazy John’s is leaving next week to move to Narrogin with his girlfriend. He reckons he has to move to the country to be able to afford anything, the cost of living and housing being prohibitive in Perth. It will help that for the first couple of months he’ll be staying with her folks. He doesn’t have a job there yet but has an interview next Monday. He came across to me as a sensible young man, very helpful customer service manner and I think he’d do well whatever the job was.
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His advice to me was that if my son wasn’t going to use the phone to chat a lot, to go for a prepay plan which can be carried over month-to-month. Bryan reckons cap plans which offer say $310 for $49/month develop bad habits in teenagers. His offsider agreed. She’s had a phone since the age of 7 (is that child abuse?) and finds the cap plans have led to profligate phoning.

So I bought the nice Nokia 6300 which has enough features – like a camera and bluetooth – to keep him interested – and games (crap though they are) – to encourage him to turn it on. He keeps the charger by his bed and uses the phone as an alarm clock – so hopefully it will be charged. I’ve also plugged in some useful phone numbers for him and we’re going to try the “blind call” technique for getting us to call him and hopefully keep the credit lasting a while.

Day two and he’s still carrying it around and it’s mostly turned on. I did discover he was keeping it on silent (!!!) but we’ve sorted that out now… I hope. Lets see how he goes in a month… 🙂