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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Saturday, June 21, 2008
Missing: 1 x social life

Do you have a life? Because I'm not sure where I left mine and if you're not using yours at the moment, I'd like to borrow it.

K? K.

No seriously. Who stole my life? Currently, I'm spending my days:

1) Preparing. For work and school: packing bags, making lunches, signing forms… blah, blah. I've nodded off just thinking about it.

2) Working. 8.30-4pm, I'm at a desk, or bringing things to other people's desks, barely resisting the urge to add, "Do you want fries with that?"

3) Cooking. 5-6pm, I'm in the kitchen, cooking and maybe, if the mood takes me and the planets are correctly aligned, cleaning up.

4) Grooming. Children, that is. Bathing them, combing their hair afterwards, trimming their nails. You know, general pet maintenance.

5) Laundering. Pointlessly shoving clothes into the washing machine and then having no way of drying them, because it's winter here and it's been raining for about a decade.

6) Organising. Persistently tidying the children's cupboards, even though experience tells me that they'll look like the day after Hiroshima in about 2.5 minutes.

7) Watching. Dvds - which, currently, are my sole form of entertainment.

8) Internetting. Because this, apart from a Friday dvd, or a glimpse at a few pages of a good book in the bath, is my only "me" time.

So I ask again: do you have a life? And if you have small children, how do you fit it in?


Posted at 11:05 am by neenblog

Ashley
June 24, 2008   04:55 PM PDT
 
I thought "your" life was your family when you had one. Being a mother is one of life's biggest blessings but we miss it so often because our culture makes us think that we need all these other things to make us "who we REALLY are", or were meant to be; a job, a social life, etc, etc. These things aren't bad but they make us discontent with our situation that so many would give up all these other things to have. I wish more moms would find satisfaction in the mundane work that's necessary to raise up children. It's the little things in life that seem so insignificant that really count.
Bee
June 23, 2008   11:30 AM PDT
 
Whahaha. Generally my weeks / weekends are the same 'cept I guess the scale is smaller. Ratio 1 parent to 1 kid. Not SO much work but does sometimes feel like I am never doing anything just for me. I think it's time to farm the kids off to Aunty Bee for a night again soon? What say thee?
angel
June 23, 2008   08:37 AM PDT
 
wow- organising and grooming and cleaning! i am impressed...
it takes a while- but you'll find it again eventually! damien is 17 and i reckon i've had a life for a couple of years now.
mwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahaaaaaaaaa
Jenty
June 21, 2008   10:43 PM PDT
 
I barely cope with the organising, let alone with me-time.
In fact, I'm seriously contemplating taking a day off next week to go to a spa for a day!
 

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