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[Jan. 3rd, 2009|10:39 pm] |
2001 in Review:
The Good
- I am engaged to the most amazing man in the entire world.
- He loves my son just as much as I do.
- Caine loves him.
- Joshua...I suppose. When he's around, it's good for Caine. Right? But when he disappears, like lately, I want to strangle him.
- The team. We might not be the best in the league, but we're doing respectably well, I should think. And I know you lot are playing your hearts out, so thank you for that.
- I have a fantastic mum, a wonderful big brother, the most adorable nephew in the world, and my sister-in-law just happens to be one of my best friends.
- I also have several other very very amazing best friends whom I adore.
I'm a lucky girl, if you hadn't noticed.
The Bad
- The season isn't going as well as I'd like, but...see above.
- Joshua. He definitely belongs on both lists.
- My son has developed an annoying habit of yelling throughout the house instead of coming to find me. Note to self: must work on that.
- Daisy is getting old. Poor lass.
I love that the good in my life far outweighs the bad. This is by no means a complete list...just my thoughts in some downtime. |
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[Dec. 18th, 2008|08:07 pm] |
(carefully printed in Mummy's handwriting)
MY CHRISTMAS LIST- CAINE MCCORMACK, AGE 4
(back to Caine's handwriting)
a toy broom
Spidrman pajamas
no Batman
no Spidrman
no both
a litesaybr
a puppy for daisy to play with but not me i don need one its for daisy |
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| Christmas! |
[Dec. 3rd, 2008|12:28 pm] |
I am telling you, there is nothing better than Christmas with your child. Caine is getting so excited. He wants to try to make and decorate cookies tonight- we'll see how that goes, because we all know I'm not the world's best baker.
But really. The way his eyes light up when he talks about how he wants to decorate his tree- yes, I let him have a tiny tree in his bedroom. It's sort of a family tradition. He wants Muggle superheroes on it, though. Does anyone know where I can find that sort of thing? I promised him we could decorate this weekend.
I'm so excited.
Also, did I forget to announce??
WE BEAT THE FUCKING FALCONS???
Hell yes. We're definitely on our way to winning the League. Because I say so.
Private to Percy
When are you moving in? I can't wait for Christmas- we need to figure out what we're doing with each of our families. Caine told me a few minutes ago that he can't wait to go to the Burrow again. |
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| Private to Close Friends |
[Nov. 23rd, 2008|06:59 pm] |
I am meeting the mother of my boyfriend who is going to be living in sin with my son and I tonight. I've met her before, but not in this capacity.
I'm freaking out, naturally. |
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[Nov. 2nd, 2008|06:14 pm] |
My life just took a very odd and completely fucking unexpected turn. I'm not sure whether this is a good thing or not.
Private
Fucking hell. He's here. In Britain, because apparently Thundelarra traded him mid-season to Ballycastle for a nice, tidy sum on both ends.
And he knows about Caine, because he's been caught up on the League's gossip line by his teammates or some fucking thing or other, and he wants to meet him. The son that he didn't find out about because he left me right when a fucking war was starting to run back home to Mummy.
Why did this have to happen now? Things are so amazing with Percy, and I really don't want him being here to fuck this up. And I'm so afraid that it will.
Fuck. I can't breathe. |
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| ANOWNSMENT |
[Oct. 24th, 2008|07:12 pm] |
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Atenshun. I have a girlfrend. Her name is Anjalina and she is MY girlfrend. So leve her alone. |
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[Oct. 13th, 2008|10:09 pm] |
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[Oct. 6th, 2008|05:07 pm] |
I am fucking exhausted.
We practiced from eight this morning to five-thirty this afternoon, with a one hour lunch break. That's just not normal. And also mean. Because then I was late picking up Caine at his preschool, so his teacher wasn't pleased with me at all (they close at 5:30, and I was perhaps ten minutes late- it wasn't that bad, but I feel awful about it). And he'd taken a nap this afternoon wish I'd gotten one) so he had all sorts of energy.
Thankfully my mother saved my life by Flooing and announcing that Kirley and his wife are arriving early tomorrow morning and did Caine just want to spend the night with her tonight.
Hell yes he does. And I'm not just saying that because his mother is about to fall over dead from exhaustion, hunger, dehydration, etc. I haven't even had a shower. Eurgh.
I need me time. Or adult time. Or food. |
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| Good days. |
[Oct. 2nd, 2008|11:00 am] |
I must say, I am a very happy girl. Lucky, too.
My son is the most amazing and infuriating creature in the world, by the way. I woke up this morning and his Loch Ness monster was in the bed with me. Which makes me wonder if he snuck in here last night. Cheeky little thing. He knows he's not supposed to be out of bed.
Oliver, thanks so much for agreeing to babysit Friday. Caine is ridiculously excited. He's decided that you're really just coming over to play with him, and that's the only reason. It's adorable.
Also, Quidditch is annoying, infuriating. Et cetera. And naturally, I'm thriving on it, even though it's early in the season. We have a good team this year, and more importantly we all seem to work well together. It's a good sign, and hopefully we'll be able to actually pull the teamwork thing off in our matches. It didn't work so well Tuesday, but buck up folks. It's just one match.
Kirley's coming to visit soon! I got his owl yesterday, I'm so excited. He and his wife and their little boy are coming. Their son is just two, but he's such a darling. I can't wait to see them. Especially Kirley. It's ridiculous that I'm twenty-five and I still miss my big brother something awful when he's not around. |
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| A new day. |
[Sep. 22nd, 2008|10:21 pm] |
Caine's feeling much better. I went to Mum's on my lunch break from practice today and he was sitting at her kitchen table, eating and chattering away as he wrote something with a pencil. She's been helping him with his letters- which is good, because she's really patient and I'm completely not, though we do work on them at home- and I'm quite impressed with his spelling. His handwriting, though, is atrocious- but he is only four.
In other news, the team is looking terrific. Bart and Pete and our other Chaser- he's new, what's his name again? Shite I should really look into that. Anyway, they look fantastic. I'm pretty impressed. And I think Caitlyn is trying to kill me with her Beater's Bat, I swear. I'm ducking it all the time.
Private to Percy
Caine is now tugging at my pants leg, wanting to know when you're going to the park. |
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| Breathing a sigh of relief. |
[Sep. 20th, 2008|11:44 am] |
His fever broke.
Whatever the potions are that they started giving him, they seem to be working because Caine's fever broke, and he still itches but he's stopped oozing and the Healers say his rash should go away soon too. Although if he doesn't stop scratching he's going to have scars like Kirley from when he and I had Dragon Pox when we were little.
However, because his fever broke but he is not yet actually well, he's in that stage where he's restless and whiny as all hell but can't actually do anything, and even if he could he wouldn't have the energy to. So he has gone from scaring Mummy to death to driving her insane.
Anyone want to come and entertain my four year old while I go home and take my first REAL shower in...ohhh...like four or five days? How long have I been here, anyway? I've used one here that one of the nice Mediwitches let me use, but I want to go home and be in my own nice lovely tiled shower with actual water pressure.
See, now that my son's going to be all right I can worry about such trivial things as not looking like Death warmed over. |
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| The Third |
[Sep. 16th, 2008|07:02 pm] |
Cash, I need you- fuck, you still have Mal, and he doesn't need to be around this Caine is sick. I'm at St. Mungo's.
I don't know what's wrong with him yet, he's just so hot and has this weird rash and it just keeps getting worse. They're doing all these tests on him. I'm not sure I really ever noticed how little he was before. He always acts so big.
Fuck. Anyone with more parenting experience than me want to tell me it gets easier over time to have your baby look at you with those sick eyes? |
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| Entry the Second |
[Sep. 11th, 2008|10:51 am] |
Meant to be marked private to self, accidentally warded private to close friends instead, as Caine went past riding Daisy.
He asked about you today. It's not the first time he's done it, but it was the first time I wasn't able to fend him off with simple answers. He's getting more and more curious about things every day. I like to think he gets that from me along with most of his good qualities.
He wanted to know who you were; why you weren't around. How could I possibly tell my son that you didn't care to stick around long enough for me to even tell you he existed? And he is my son, despite how much of you there is in him. Because you haven't been here. You weren't here when I found out. You weren't here during the long months that I was pregnant, and during a fucking war, no less. You weren't here when I had to Floo my mother in tears because otherwise I would've been in that delivery room alone, which actually was what I had planned on.
And you haven't been here for the last four years, to watch the most incredible little person in the entire world grow; to watch his personality take shape and see him slowly start to become who he's going to be. It's the most amazing thing to watch; to know that I created this miniature person, this little monster who means more to me than anything else.
It's your loss. Not mine. But it's his, too, and that's the only thing I regret about you not knowing- his questions, the things he'll miss out on, the fact that he doesn't have a father who loves him as much as his mother does. That's it. |
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[Sep. 6th, 2008|10:55 pm] |
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| Entry the First, or, Why My Son Is Grounded at Age 4 |
[Sep. 1st, 2008|09:40 am] |
He turned the fucking bull green.
He stole my wand and he turned the bull green! Needless to say, Fergus is not amused in the slightest. So Caine is in big trouble, and grounded. And naturally by grounded I mean he has to sit in his room and 'think about what he did', because really what else are you going to do to a four year old?
I'll tell you what, though, I'm never letting my wand out of my sight again. Sneaky little thing. |
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