emzeegee and the hungry three

I recently had a chat to a client which was so remarkable I think it's well worth blogging about. She's a good client, I see her at least twice a year for her sons's birthdays. She's my age but...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2013/08/ignorance-is-survival.html

I've been overweight for my whole life. I'm pretty sure I came out of the womb a chubby baby and just never really got much smaller.  For obvious reasons this was an issue of concern for my pare...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-overweight.html

A couple of months ago I was driving down the road with the kids in the car when DD2 said, "Hey! Mum! Check that out! I just saw something which is going to make me happy for a week!"  It turns ...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2013/08/happy-for-week.html

As I type this, it's one o'clock in the afternoon on a Thursday and I'm still in my pyjamas. I'm sitting up in the squishiest of beds, under 2 down comforters, with my back leaning against three ...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2013/07/bliss.html

I have a rule when it comes to taking photos of the kids. They don't like it when I take their pictures and so I had to institute this rule in order to make my life a little easier and get some ...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2013/05/twelve.html

My whole life I've been told I have a big mouth. Big girl, big voice, big opinions, big mouth. I can assure you that nobody who ever told me that was giving me a compliment. I've blogged about ho...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2013/04/for-powers-of-good-not-evil.html

The only sentence any new mother wants to hear is, "You're not crazy." It's the sentence she wants to hear when she tells a friend she isn't coping very well. The sentence she wants to hear w...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2013/03/youre-not-crazy.html

A little while ago I decided I needed to "see someone" about the fact that I've had an emotional few months (where emotional = falling to bits). My GP had a few recommendations which didn't suit ...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2013/02/maybe-crazy-but-not-lonely.html

One of the questions I get most often about the kids is, "Do they get along?" I'm pretty sure it's one of those unique triplet questions - because I can't remember anyone ever asking my Mom is my...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2013/02/just-suck-it-up.html

Some years ago I learned about geocaching - which is basically a nerdy "sport" which means,"finding stuff via GPS," and I thought it would make a great family activity. At the time I did a bit of...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2013/01/geonerds-on-loose.html

The last 9 months or so have been pretty crappy for me. Various dramas with family, health, business and life have conspired to give me some very challenging months. Throughout all of it, I've ma...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2013/01/kindness-or-complacency.html

I was going to write a really long whingy post about our experiences on our recent vacation, but I decided that there was no point in dredging it all up again. Besides, I had a mighty good time d...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-story-of-beautiful-tropical-helluatu.html

I love to travel. I love everything about it. Getting new clothes, buying lollies at the last minute, picking up $35 worth of trashy magazines at the airport, not sleeping well the night before...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2013/01/home.html

My company recently hosted a cake decorator from another country. I invited him to come and teach some courses for us and this involved an enormous amount of logistical planning, effort and money...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2012/12/some-people-are-just-jerks.html

Two years ago I stumbled across the concept of picking a Word of The Year - the word which would serve as your internal reminder of what you were working towards, the word which could serve as i...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2012/11/wordy-time-of-year.html

In the new year, all the planets in my life are going to align. Each of the kids is headed off on a different adventure, the business is going to be officially closed for holidays, and DH is able...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2012/11/holiday-planning.html

One of the MOST vital exercises I did under the guidance of Guru Guy was working out why I'm in business in the first place. It sounds so simple, doesn't it? What a basic question. Why on earth a...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2012/11/thanksgiving.html

My business recently provided a whole lot of beautiful biscuits for the anniversary dinner of our synagogue. In organising these to be made, the marketing person called and asked me if I could em...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2012/11/in-your-own-backyard.html

(Ed's note: Yes, I know. I missed two days of blogging, thus rendering me not technically qualified for NaBloPoMo. A bit like when you've snuck a bar of chocolate when you've been on a diet, the ...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2012/11/thin-skinned.html

Somewhere in my head there is a blog post desperate to be written - but at this point I must tell you I'm exhausted (physically) because I spent my day cutting, baking, decorating and wrapping so...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2012/11/weary.html

Yippee, I made it to the halfway point of NaBloPoMo...and I'm exhausted. Not from the blogging (like every year, I find it much easier to find the time than I thought) but just from all that is h...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2012/11/halfway.html

Earlier in Spring I decided that I needed to get out of the rut I'd been in all winter. Thanks to some work and family drama, it was a bit of a long, miserable winter for me and I was feeling dec...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-lies-we-tell-ourselves.html

I'm a member of a parenting-of-HOM group on facebook (for the uninitiated, HOM = Higher Order Multiples, a fancy word for multiple births that are triplets, quads or more because clearly that sor...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2012/11/love-notes.html

Today I went to SSOTH* to volunteer for a couple of hours in the kitchen part of their kitchen garden program. I have been promising the kids that I would come and help since they started the pro...

http://emzeegee.blogspot.com/2012/11/yeah-my-kids-rock.html

I once read an interview with the owner of Australia's best known cake shop, in which the owner said her favourite part of being in the cake world was the “rockstar moment.” She is someone w...

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