I'm a 35 36 37 38 year old mother of 3 who needs a break - physical, mental, spiritual or financial - I'll take what I can get. My husband says I work too much and I should chill more. Whether he's right or wrong, my life is what it is. I'd love some more "me time" to read, write and shop, but I never have the time to take it. So this blog is my "me time" and it's ALL ABOUT ME.

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In a previous life, I freelanced for Pregnancy and Parenting magazines.

I'd love to do more of this. If/when someone offers me a regular gig (hint!), I'll start up again.

Here's a list of my published work.

Dunlop, J. 2004, "Got time on your side?", Living and Loving, vol. September, pp. 146.

Dunlop, J. 2004, "Happy endings", Your Pregnancy, vol. April/May, no. 32, pp. 60-62.

Dunlop, J. 2003, "Coping with depression", Your Pregnancy, vol. October/November, no. 29, pp. 54-56.

Dunlop, J. 2003, "Working moms: guilt or grace?", Today, vol. October, no. 126, pp. 22-23.

Dunlop, J. 2002, "AIDS in the classroom", Your Family, vol. January, pp. 88-89.

Dunlop, J. 2001, "The baby gap", Your Family, vol. April, pp. 14-16.

Dunlop, J. 2000, "Hope is born", Today, vol. May, no. 99, pp. 26-27.

Dunlop, J. 2000, "The nappy debate", Your Baby, vol. August, no. 53, pp. 95-96.

Dunlop, J. 1999, "Waiting for a heartbeat", Today, vol. May, no. 91, pp. 24-27.

Dunlop, J. "'Just relax' and other infertility myths", TLC: Tender Loving Care for Life, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 95-96.



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Tuesday, June 17, 2008
And now for something completely different

Been a lot of negativity about my mothering skills around here in the last few posts. For your enjoyment, here’s some self-praise:

I’ve been meaning to move Jonah out of our bedroom since forever. James moved out when he was about 18 months old and Hannah took a little longer. Neither of them stayed until they were 2. Yet there Jonah is, sleeping in the cot next to our bed, and most nights, waking us up or crawling onto my head in the middle of the night.

We have a tiny house: 3 bedrooms, but the 2nd and 3rd could actually be one small bedroom if you knocked down the wall. Hannah and James each have their own room and there really isn’t space for Jonah.

The solution I came up with was to buy double bunks and put the boys in together, until James got too old to share with a younger sibling, or we moved out to a bigger house – whichever came first.

But how to afford double bunks? The prices ranged from the really basic (ie -ugly) at R900 to the designer (ie –unnecessary) at R4500. Whatever: we could afford neither R900 or R4500 or anything in between.

So I wrote an article. And then I got it sold to a magazine. And then I got paid. And then yesterday, I went shopping, bought the bunks, had them delivered and assembled and set up the room.

Resourceful mommy? I think so.  Smile

(Link to magazine to follow when the article is published in August. Whoo-hoo!)


Posted at 06:45 pm by neenblog

Jenty
June 19, 2008   11:07 PM PDT
 
Woohoo!! I'm impressed, can't wait to read the article :)
beck
June 19, 2008   04:04 AM PDT
 
Excellent! Applause. Hope the bunk beds work out well for you. We tended to incorporate them into childhood airplane and skydiving games, much to the concern of our mother, but we all lived. =)
angel
June 18, 2008   09:29 PM PDT
 
i am impressed!
Memarie Lane
June 18, 2008   01:44 AM PDT
 
I got mine from Freecycle. Then I learned that actually changing sheets and such on bunkbeds is friggin impossible, and we took them down again.

BTW apparently I'd make a superior 30's housewife. I think it's time for me to rethink my life. :P
 

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