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Well good news, husband dearest has purchased for me a fancy smancy new computer, so I will be able to get back into the swing of regular blogging again - ohhhh bloggy bloggy world how I have missed you, and oh I have so much to share. My old computer decided it was having none of this blogger login malarky some months back and would not play nicely, so I have been forced out of action for far

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Without a doubt if my son came with a soundtrack this would be it, funniest thing for the past few weeks I have this song swimming around in my head, I wanna be adored sums him up - enough said :)Haven't been able to blog in a while, my computer is playing up for some reason doesnt like any google sites, except ones that come with a com.au not sure how it has developed these racist tendencies to

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well we were sent an email from our dept worker last week, saying that we can actually show our childrens faces under new legislation, without getting their permission first, so here he is! Some random photos. Life is good, hard to believe we are six months home already, time has flown by. He is growing and changing so quickly, and I am getting the hang of being mummy, and all

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It has been a bit of hard work this week to get our little one to eat some proper food, typically he plays with his food, but this week he has enjoyed rubbing it in his hair, throwing it on the floor, and generally not putting enough into his mouth for my liking. His loves of crackers, cheese, ham, grapes and strawberries are still consumed with enthusiasm at snack times, he wont eat toast or

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love this shop my rocking wardrobe it is online and they send things overseas from Korea. We have some fab outfits. Funny as always thought it was little girls that have the most choices, but having a son discovered there are some fun and fabulous boys clothes on the market. Here is a shot of our little man in one of their fun hoodies - as you know I cant post indentifying photos under our adopt

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Gosh I haven’t done a proper blog post in ages. Life is understandably very busy, we had our weekend holiday away with the local Thai Adopt community, it was marvelous to see everyone, but will be better when our little man is older, as most of the other kids are older and have forged very strong friendships over the years. We did however share an apartment with a couple from another state and

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I have a complete girlie Eurovision song contest crush on these boys!!!! Band called 'A friend in London' from Denmark

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I might be a bit behind the times and everyone probably knows how clever these artists are, but just came across "Adopted the Comic"especially like this one, Anniversary days so true, I have like a gazilllion dates of significence swimming around my head, might just have to celebrate 365 days of the year, as that is really how blessed we are. and this one parental worriesand this Lameinfact I

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Deary me, I am finding it quite tiresome the constant nonsense being hashed out in the Australian media, nonsense being put there by an arguably peculiar Defence Minister, who seems to be using all manner of nonsense stories to discredit our brave Military members, absolutly snots me. The ONLY and might I stress ONLY article I have read which goes anyway to dispel this absolutly crap is this

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Fellow Thai Adopt mumma blogging friend of mine J has set up this site for Thai Lily Baby Carriers they are made by a home that supports women in abusive situations, she selling them on as a way to support the home. How fabulous are these, oh and J of course is fabulous for working on this project too.

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just discovered this delightful blog be a fun mum, love the yoghurt painting photo - every night in our house is painting by food, love it.

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Thai Australia a is a good website for Thai Australian information. Our local temple also has a day of events planned for Songkran this coming Sunday see Wat Thai Buddharam Here is a little video I found on youtube of the event in 2010

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and whilst I am at this reflective posting, I just read a very touching post by a British Padre serving in Afghanistanthat we had no kind of font or baptistry was irrelevant

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Since coming home with our little one I have been in a bubble news wise, and I have only just read that Brian Jacques passed away in February this year. The Redwall world was such a wonderful companion to me when I was at boarding school, I remember late at night under my covers with a torch reading, getting lost in the tales. There is a good Redwall quote on his site, which really does sum it up

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came across some old interesting articles in a Thai paper. article 1article 2article 3and a mini update; friday little one and I had a dinner date with some of his "Thai-Adopt" aunties and also another friend of mine who has just sent her file to China, he wore the cutest shirt and tie, with waistcoat ensemble my sister sent him from the UK, love British Clothes, it is size 12 months and fits him

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top photo is wee huggersbottom photo is cute tooshies bamboo delightsSo went back to Nest today and figured out the Nappy thing. So I had basically been using day ones, with extra inserts, and the reason he was getting wet was a) J hadnt been putting them on properly at night time, not tight enough so came out the sides (discovered this last night before put him to bed, as J does bed time prep,

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discovered Cloth Nappy System, great site for tips on Cloth Nappies. We have had a couple of wet nights, so just trying to research what I am doing wrong, read up a couple of sites, and basically think problem is I was treating them just like day time wear, when in actual fact I should be doubling up the insert liner for nightime.

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Feeling very blaah and teary tonight, Ellie just spotted this news article Nakhon Si Thammarat I have friends with children from homes there, and also others are waiting to bring their children home from here. Most concerning in the article is the bit where it mentions the 12 hospitals being destroyed, that highlights how dire it must be there.

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Life is just wonderful, I don't actually think things could be going any better than they are, we are so blessed. My little one is really coming along wonderful especially at his swimming class, he loves the water, and is very confident at having his head under the water and blowing bubbles, and also mastering pulling himself out of the pool, which is the most important skill in my mind. We are

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Interesting article, True Fatherhood personal to the author and interesting as telling the side that we don't hear as much, the other voice is louder. I do however know a few adoptees who currently dont have an interest in tracing their birth families, and similiar view point to this author.

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had our appointment with our excellent new Doctor yesterday, amongst other thngs we have a little boy who is determind to catch up at a fast rate, we only came home on 1st Feb when he was 81cms, now he is an astonisghing 87cms!!!!!!!

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This is a very handy resourceIssues for paediatric health and other child care professionals to consider in treating the post-institutionalised childAs is this link to one of the Australian government websites (not my state) Intercountry Adoption - physical healthSo been a bit of a whoooo haaaa since we got back re Doctor, I booked an appointment after a couple of weeks home. Took all our little

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J took a day off work today, has been wonderful, we took little man to his swimming class, now it is nap time J has been working hard at converting my study into a play room! Much better use of the study and removes the final cloak of my old working life, I love being a mummy life just doesnt get better than this. I cant wait for him to wake up and have all his two year old dreams come true in an

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this story blows my mind! vegetarians adoption drama

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So over in Thailand we used Mamy Poko Pants, they were awesome! Infact as testimate to how good they were - I have made a new adopt mumma friend, she has 4 littlies so knows about nappies, and she lived overseas for a long time, and when they moved back here they bought some boxes back with them they loved them that much. Now they are disposable, but they were just such a good fit for our little

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Australia has finally updated its official website today too re news Thailand for 2011 must have heard me frowning at their delay on one of my post yesterday! So as I had learnt in Jan, indeedy there is no quota for 2011.Now although we have our son, so not really of relevence to us, I still care about the program, my heart aches for the children waiting, so to be honest I find this update a bit

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enough of the creepy, back to reality that is my amazing love filled life. My son is the funniest person I know, his belly laugh, how he dances like a rapper, how his eyes light up at a smile, a kind word, a rustle of a crisp packet!, how he is so kind and gentle (well except when he decided to bite me on the bum tonight when i was cooking dinner and didnt turnaround to pick him up quick enough!

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Florence just put a post on her blog 2011 program news the french authroities have announced there isn't a quota for 2011, but files for children over age of 6 will still be accepted. This is what I also learnt when we were over there in January. Not really sure why the Aussie authorities haven't made an announcement yet, think they should do that as soon as possible, if I recall correctly it

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So after a lot of waffle, and snatching times during his nap and in the evening when I put him to bed, I have finally got to my final post covering our trip to Thailand to meet our son….In between all the things we got up to in Bangkok, during our last week and half in Thailand (covered in my previous post), we also had to do the official parts, and our actual reason for being in Bangkok. We had

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Friday night we packed up our room, and Saturday morning we made our way to the airport, it was a strange feeling, a feeling of relief, and excitement, this was it, leaving his orphanage town felt for the first time that this was the real start of our life as a family of 3, heading out into the world of new adventures.The flight was uneventful, we weren’t sure how he would manage, but as the

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So late afternoon Tuesday we were dropped off outside our hotel, and that was us ‘unaccompanied parents’ for the first time, now was our big learning curve, caring for our new son whilst also gaining his trust, and helping him to feel secure. Thank heavens for our Avanti bottle warmer, it was very handy and took some pressure off the chaos. Also we had to goggle formula on the internet as the box

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(Thank you for the warm comments on my last post, great to hear from some new people, and waiting parents, I am trying to post as honestly as possible with the ‘real’ experience, as think sometimes its easy to gloss over things, the honest truth was that after waiting so long and being prepared it was still really really hard some days in Thailand, but a calm approach worked for us, and life is

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Monday we woke early, this was the day we would meet our son for the first time. I felt shakey, I was fretting about what to wear, what to take, I kept practicising my breathing to make sure I could keep my nerves under control, I didn’t want to burst into tears or cry like a banshee when I first saw him. So much was racing around my head, mainly nonsense, fueled by nerves.We attempted to eat

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After our relaxing lunch at Huay Teung Tao Reservoir we were ready to head to visit our sons first orphanage. Even after my time working in an orphanage in Romania many years ago, I don’t think anything would ever be able to prepare me for the stomach churning sadness I feel whenever I walk into any orphanage, (of course in Thailand from what I have seen they are thankfully nothing like the

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I love Chiang Mai – love love love it, it is the perfect city to amble, to explore little alleys, it is the city of temples, the air is clear and cooler than other parts of Thailand, there is a relaxed feel to the place, non-threatening compared to the chaos that is Bangkok. The night markets are great, the street food is great, the food market is great, and if you fancy a sit down meal one night

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We flew with Royal Brunei – they are awesome, we even treated ourselves to Business Class. Only minor disadvantage was a 4 hour stopover in Brunei, however in saying that, it was actually very good to have that stop over on the way home with our son.Once we got to Bangkok, we hopped on a domestic flight up to Chiang Mai, hard to stop the tears flowing as we lowered down into the lush green of the

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Bit annoyed at myself have got behind on blogging, want to properly record our journey over there, but seemed to have been expressing myself on facebook and emails a lot more lately, and then the hours just disappear.To say that the week we flew out was a “challenge” to holding a calm mental state would be an understatement! The skys opened and a great flood came not seen since 1974, this wasn’t

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We arrived back home yesterday, wow what a journey, our son is amazing but we are so TIRED! So much to write, I will try and do it in installments about what happened over the past couple of weeks, rollercoaster with a capital R.As far as the program, I learnt that there wont be a quota in 2011 - though I wouldnt take that for certain until officially announce it, minds can change I am sure. I

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Beautiful song, sums up how I feel at the moment for our boy, love and joySo our very lovely SW rang us first thing this morning, we have TRAVEL APPROVAL!!! Yipyipyippeeeee. Well reading this you know how J and I run full steam ahead at every chance that we have to contribute to the speed of our journey, so today was filled with flights, transfer and accomodation arranging, and guess what!! This

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J and I went out for smancy fancy Shanghai style food tonight, yummmmm, these dumplings are awesome, called Soup dumplings, you nibble the top off them, slurp them as there is like a small soup like thing in it, then you eat the dumpling which contains pork and prawn and things like that. yummmmmmmmy, hope our boy likes Chinese food too - we bought him a kids set of chopsticks already!!! we are

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What on earth would I do without my adoption support network! Well to be honest I dont know how anyone gets through this without some people in the know and all that invalualbe prepping and advice, it's a crazy ride! As for us, not much news yet, we do know his medical is at the Embassy, as is our paperwork, it all needs to get signed off and approved by Australia, then hopefully we should get

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Thank you everyone for such encouraging and happy comments :) very special.for Zoe - it was wierd actually as J strangely had knocked off early that day and he walked through the door just after 2pm, which was about 15mins before 'the call' came. She asked if he was there, and then we went on loud speaker so all three of us could talk. It was a bit surreal really, she just talked and we listened,

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Yes yes yes you did not make a mistake when reading the title of this post, just call me MummaGem from now on!!! whooop whooop. Some of my bloggy friends already know this due to FB but those who are just readers not writers then here it is!!! Before I write about how it all happened, I would like to say that I hope our wonderful news gives hope to all of those waiting parents in the quota system

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British Soldiers Christmas songWonderful song written by a British soldier serving in Afghanistan.I am thinking of all of our International Forces serving overseas and working together during this festive season, and thank you to all of their families for their huge sacrifices

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love this photo, sums up what the pups think to J being home - spoilt

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I have had a really good couple of weeks, and now feeling the Christmas cheer - which is always a bit of an effort for me, as I still long for the cold cold Christmas's of home, but hey we cant have everything we want in life we would be terribly spoilt eh! Sitting here towards the end of the "waiting" stage of our journey, I feel it is an amazing achievement to have gone this long long road

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We had our welcome home parade this weekend, was really wonderful day, terribly sad though when the riderless horses went past, to represent the boys we lost.

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ohhhhh what news what news, nothing better than a Royal Wedding - congrats Prince William you handsome handsome man, about time, that was an awfully long courtship, but I suppose after the tough time his mum had he needed to make sure his future Queen could handle the drama of the spotlight. Ohhhhh I am sooooooo happy, and can't wait to follow the news as it unfolds, I think they are doing a

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It is remberance day today, a minutes silence on 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, so if you didnt shhhh for a minute today then I hope you had a good excuse, and may I suggest you take a breath just now, bow your head and let peace surround you and send some thanks out into the Universe.I am having a good day today, I love Thursdays they give me that Friday feeling.J is doing well,

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I think it is time to send some thanks out into the world...Thank you so much to my "realworld" "cyber" "blog" and "facebook" "waiting-parent" "army" and especially my "Thai adopt support" friends, friends old and new, I think I couldnt have got through this deployment so well without all of your support.It might sound strange but even the simplest text message, the comments, the words of

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adoption books came across this British online book shop, it has a HUGE selection of adopt themed books, and free delivery worldwide, which is far too tempting, so I might devote some time to going through it one night and get a big stash of new books to add to my library - one can never have enough books is my belief. Had a really lovely weekend, went up a Mountain with one of my friends, fellow

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ahhhh I love this video, to hear words being enunciated properly is equivalent to drinking a cool refreshing glass of water! I do love Australia but one little grievance is that words are battered within an inch of their lives, if a word has not already been abbreviated out of existance then it is lengthened with "ie" or "y" or "o"

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The above line is the intro to a bloggy friend of mines new blog - says it all really!Say What???See above link, great idea, and she is looking for contributors so check it out :)

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my youngest dog has such a funny personality, really high energy, and he has this bizarre trick - whenever I have shoes on with laces, he undoes the laces! he thinks all shoes with laces are running shoes, therefore he gets excited, it has become like our little "thing" it makes me laugh every time, probably should break him of this bizarre habit, but it is just so cute! I have had a wonderful

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Today marks day 251 into this deployment, I know I have done pretty well so far, I am terribly proud of him, of our soldiers and even proud of myself at this stage. However this was the first day I got that twinge that prayer twirling around around in the back of my head, please come home soon.I know we have about another month to go, and I feel like this one small month will take longer to pass

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So sad all these horrible stories of cyber bullying and facebook bullying around the world and suicides, just read a few stories on news tonight, disturbing.Delete delete delete and block block block these people... double dare anyone to cyber bully me or mine I will whip your butt.I have also heard some pretty unpleasant stories about bullying between army wives over the past year, maybe put a

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Deary me I was on a blog writing roll, and now two weeks have passed and I am struggling to find the ooomph to post, however, determined I must be - as this logs a very important journey.First off happy news for Australia this week, as far as I am aware 3 couples have been allocated/matched - they each waited between 2 1/2 and just under 3 years since their files were received in Thailand.

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So this week has been varied.Tonight I ran out of tea bags and have been sulking (isnt that ridiculous) bit late to go to the shops, and was already in my pjamas. I had to give myself a prod as quite ridiculous sulking about tea-bag shortage when put it in relation to J's current location. Honestly you might take the girl out of England, but I think the tea thing must be a genetic mutation of the

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This week has gone by really quickly, & over a week since I last got bloggy.Almost 3/4 year has gone past since J has been away, we are on the final stretch now, and I am beginning to let myself get excited about his return. Of course a phonecall from Thailand would really make his welcome home even more awesome, but putting my "sensible" rather than "wishful thinking" head on today I know that

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Been an awfully long week, so very very glad to have hit Friday!! whoop whoop. Have a lovely weekend planned, Saturday day time going to a country show with K who we all think is within a hairs breadth of being matched very very soon (so K I promise I will try and curb my enthusastic yipps of guesstimates when I see you :)Then I am heading back to the city to spend the evening with 'A' watching

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Baby, we were meant for each otherabove is a review of a new book, looks definitly worth a read

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news article about Pakkred babies homeSee above article, really interesting, what a fantastic program they have put in place.Apart from the very sad news this past week in my Army world, other things have been going well lately. Saturday turned into a good day, I spent the afternoon with what I know as the "Aunties" the mums to thai children who have walked this path before me. These ladies are

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Ramp Ceremony Private's Dale & Kirby above link for photos of the ramp ceremony in TK for the two lads who lost their lives at the end of last week, photos really sum up the closeness of the lads over there. I believe the two boys will be home in the next few days, and last I heard we are having a ceremony for them on the local base early next week.More sad sad news today, I was awoken by a text

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Everyday Hero Bridge to Brisbane 2010news story on event

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Rest in peace courageous brave heroes, Privates Dale and Kirby, thank you for your sacrifice, lest we forget.I had a sad sad feeling that there would be such news before it was announced, i hadn't heard from J in a few days, and as I knew he had just got back from being out and about, but he had gone quiet, it always means tragic news is not far away when there is no communication.Lest We Forget

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I believe as waiting-parents and parents, we have a HUGE responsibility to educate ourselves and keep ourselves as well informed as we can. We are very fortunate to have a lot of things of an educational nature going on in these parts. My post bloggy 1st Augustmentioned an excellent seminar I went to by the American organisation CASE.Early next month I am attending a seminar, below link, which is

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Just came across an online news article about a new book soon to be released written about an Australian couples journey to Adopt their son from Thailand, see below articleSearching for Our AngelI just found they have a facebook page too, which has a more detailed synopsis in the discussions section. Will be intrigued to have a read when it comes out, especially as there are relatively few Aussie

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all children love sweeties gosh if they aren't a good enough reason for J to be over there I don't know what is, little poppets deserve a safe country to grow up in. (bottom two photos are J)

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bit fed up this evening, so playing this song loud again, it always cheers me up....trust me feeling down turn it up LOUD and then dance around the sofa :) It is a bit hard with deployments and waiting for our bub, as basically other things in my life like my job just can't hold the same power over me that they used to. I just don't have the patience for it, where in the past I would become

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The other day Zoe over at "my sleepy family" blog did a little review of The Waiting City film, so with a spare evening up my sleeve I decided to go and see it tonight. Won't bother going into the story too much just see below linkThe Waiting CityI guess my thoughts on it were; It was a good reminder India is on my "to do list" such a beautiful country, the cinematography was awesome. Can't wait

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note for Sylvia at "Elora at Last" blogspot - I love reading your blog you write very well and always interesting, and I share a lot of the views on a similar path as you, but your blog doesnt have a comments function on it, so thought I would post a hello here incase you pop by sometime soon. I loved your post " she is my daughter not a budget line" and especially relate to trying to find some

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So far this week I have had quite a few parcels land on my doorstep. J appears to have been busy helping the local economy in Afghanistan, which I heartily approve of... so carpets, lots of them! urrrm lots being 5! The red ones are heavier, so I guess better quality, I love them, Red is my favorite colour! The red ones he wrote were spun and woven in Mazar-e-sharif, in the North and is in

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J is such a goofball, he just made me this drawing on his computer and emailed it to me, in response to an email I sent him about my purple foot.He tells me it is an idea to maintain my mobility with purple foot, and getting some use out of my skates - hmmmm I think J and our future kids are going to have some fun coming up with silly inventions and games :)I have some photos of J giving

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Sadly lost points this week from my fantasy score board "Home alone Army Wife I can survive a crisis awesome lady" tally, had a sharp reminder NOT a very grown up idea to run around the house with no shoes on when have a giant wooden desk that attracts toes - ouch! ugly purple foot evidence attached....ewww and yes it hurts as ugly as it looks. This is the second time I have done this in the past

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the hardest puzzle in the universe..... might take me until J gets back to finish it! I am a not so secret dork..... I like puzzles when I get the time of course, so need to get my fix now, as hopefully we will have a bub soon and there will be no time for grownup giant billion piece puzzles :)

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We celebrated international adoption day today. Had a lovely day running the Thailand Stall, was especially awesome to catch up with some people, and also chat with some people I havent met before. QLD has such a great Thai adopt community, J and I are really really really really lucky to have landed in Brisbane amongst such wonderful, interesting, kind and helpful people. All pretty wise too as

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Bit of a heavy post for little olde me but some things have to be said out loud more often.I seem to be noticing stories, media, tv shows all kinds of medium talking about Abortion, and it makes me feel sick. Tonight there is a tv documentary that is celebrating some IDIOT who led the way to legalise abortion in Aus, such filth it shouldnt be on the tv it makes me mad. Not sure what it is like in

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What a long couple of days, a moment of madness overcame me last night and I decided to put my dinner on the BBQ rather than just cook it on the hob like I normally do. J is the BBQer in the family, and I think it will have to stay that way as I managed to turn the BBQ into a fireball. Very scary, lucky I had a power hose to put it out, slight problem was that the BBQ sits under a cement awning

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I came across some old articles about adoption in the BK post, so thought I would share as quite interesting. first article second articlethird articlefourth articlefifth article

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I came across this video on a British Forces support site, it was made for an organisation in the UK called Help For Heroes, I was really impressed when I went back to the UK at how much a presence this organisation has developed and their rigourous fundraising work.We lost another brave Aussie soldier on Friday, he was only 23 years old, J said they had a ramp ceremony 'over-there' on Monday to

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I wish I had some talent in the photography or arty world, I know what I like though so that is something, and our house has lots of awesome artwork on the walls, obviously the most important pieces are yet to come, photos of our future child! ahhhhh sometimes I get that jolt awake, I am going to be a mummy one day soon, now how exciting is that! My friend S is currently embarking on a new career

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Deployments/tours are the craziest of things, okay so it goes like this. J emails when he can, I send him emails all the time waffling on about waffle, and sometimes he calls me. Usually we speak once a week, it has been a lot longer this time between calls, and when he will/can call I never really know. However one thing I can guarantee is that the phone will ring at the worst time, half cooked

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A few activities for the coming months in the local adoption community. Celebrating 25 years of supporting international adoption ... a great day for adoptive families old and new, as well as those in the making. (that is the official events logo)Information on adoption, games, photo competition, dancing, raffles, cultural parade, face painting, international food, entertainment and rides.9.30 am

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In my time in Aus I have crossed paths with quite a few racists, and also white Australians who are racist against white British people i.e me. Isn't that fascinating as racially we are kinda the same in the simplistic translation. I have not really got to the bottom of it, and I guess in itself that sums up racism in all its unpleasantness, it is unfathomable to explain it or rationalise it on

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Zoe thanks for stopping by, awesome to have a new Aussie Thai Adopt blogger around here there arent that many of us :) looking forward to following your journey and Huge congrats on your approval such an awesome milestone.Zoe's Blog

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This is airing tonight, but the videos online are very interesting and worth watching, reality check eh.In Harms WayMe having the ability to drivel on about Twilight and silly things whilst my other half is over there in the dust is quite a contrast eh. I think the videos are good at explaining to civilians that the lads believe they should be there, and are doing good - talked about that in my

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I have this video on my facebook page, and I play it every once in a while, makes me cry every time, very beautiful and truethis is the musicians family blog http://dreamingbigdreams.net/

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First off, I went with my lovely friend S (a fellow milspouse with her hubby ‘over-there’ too) to Eclipse on Friday and it was BRILLIANT. I so hope the books don’t stop, there is so much potential for all sorts of off shoot stories. I go through phases with my book reading, I don’t always read books aimed at teenagers (honest :)) but sometimes you just need to be able to pick something up, not

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I am going to see Eclipse tommorow... yes I am a closet Twihard, kept that under my blog belt didnt I!!!! oh and I am definitly in the "team jacob" camp.arghhhhhhhhh I cant wait whoop whoop whoop love a good love story. I am now going to devote the rest of the evening to watching the first two again, just to get my brain in the Twilight zone! Probably good thing J is away, he doesnt really get

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I am copy and posting this prayer, it was posted today on one of the Aussie army websites, beautiful and I just had to blog post it,"Senior Chaplain, Headquarters 1st Division, Chaplain Jim Cosgrove penned this beautiful prayer for a prayer service at Gallipoli Barracks in Brisbane. The sacrifice of these young men will never be forgotten and we honour their dedication and resolve to meet all our

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my olde school friend put me onto an awesome site called http://www.thebabywearer.com/ we already are prepared with an Ergo carrier - after reading of all the mums who found them awesome when they went over to thailand to bring their littlies home - however nothing like variety in life, I have really taken a shine to the "sari" wraps. J keeps sending me gorgeous gifts from Afghanistan markets,

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Nubie is glad to have me home, I bought a cute pillow from England, he claimed it as soon as he got back and snuggled up with his pigs chew for an afternoon of kennel trauma recovering.I got to thinking tonight that Adoption approval/waiting and Deployments really show which friends are ready to stand up and be counted! Last time J was away I remember my fascination that certain mutual friends

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http://love2lifetime.blogspot.com/hope you all get a chance to check out this new blog above, a fellow Aussie Army Milspouse - beautiful gorgeousness of a blog that it is :)As for me, well yep I am back, got back last night - and indeedy Business class ISNT overrated! its AWESOME!!! how will I ever go back to cattle class!!! well money will force that conclusion, but ohhhhhh it was wonderful!

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Doing a few posts lately, but will soon be off line for a while on my hols so it is a good excuse.My sis sent me a cute email yesterday about my 2 yr old niece, thought I would repost it here."In the local supermarket today, H smiled at a woman in one of the aisles and the woman said she had the most beautiful smile. I smiled back at the woman and she then said I can see just where she gets that

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It's Wednesday whoop whoop that means its 3 nights until my "posh" plane flight! Not sure Charliepuppy is quite so excited about me going away, he likes our house, his toys, ME. I am treating him and Nubie, they are going in the "posh" digs at the kennels again - the one with a tv and a sofa! yes I know mad dog lady, but at least it is home from home, and should save me a fortune in vets fees if

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I dont need sympathy, I am an indepedent WOMan after all..... Hmmmm wierd day, I have been defeated by the garage roller door! Having previously surprised myself with my new found lawn mowing skills I am now quite disappointed in my failure in further developing my new independent WOMan skillset :) I havent had a posting with a posh house electric roller door before, so its all new and exciting

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It has been a busy weekend for me. Saturday my friend S came to stay, we went to a Greek festival in town during the day, with another friend K. We ate meze, watched a cooking demonstration, and wandered around - thankfully for me they both also had an aversion to the scarier looking funfare rides that had been set up, and I safely spent the day avoiding being spun upside down being whiplashed.

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