How does everyone else do it?

I am at a bit of a loss as to how everyone around me copes so well. I feel as though I barely cope. I am a mum, run a house, work a full time job in part time hours and feel as though I don't do any of my roles justice. My house is an absolute disorganised shambles and I cant see my way clear. SIGH! I feel as though I take one step foward in my quest for a clean house and organised chaos and then two steps backwards. I just want to have some sense of order in my life before I start full time work again after Christmas.

On the home front my girls are great. Mali is a real giggle pot. She laughs hysterically in the car and claps her hands. Kya comes out with new things every day. Latest is "Stop Mummy" (complete with hand actions) and "no Wally (Mali), its mine". She "swims" like a fish in the bath, swishing actions and noises. Mali sits next to her in the bath oblivious and just splashing as hard as she can.

Kya refers to herself as LuLu, and responds to LuLu. If I say "Kya", she will often say "no Mummy, LuLu". Tangis always calls her LuLu or Bubbles (Princess Tiny Bubbles) and I think that I must use LuLu regularly too, for her to have picked up on it so strongly.

We are off to Mum and Dads on the weekend. I am heading to Melbourne for work (annual conference and AGM) and am leaving the girls with Nanna and Grumps for a night.

Work again tomorrow, so I'd better go and get some sleep - God knows that I will be up at least once during the night with Mali.

My new blog!

I have wanted to start a blog for a while now - partly because I wanted to keep a diary documenting my girls as they grow up and have just been basically too distracted to write things down, and also so that Tangis can log in from PNG when he is able and see how his girls are growing and what they are up to.


I am a working single mum living in Canberra with two precious girls - Kya and Mali. Kya is 22 months old and Mali is 6 1/2 months old. They are both little rascals and they light up my world. This is a photo of them after breakfast yesterday morning.