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Here we go again...
Posted Oct 15, 2007
I haven't been here for ages, due to time constraints of munchkin herding and setting up a birth pool hire business, so anyone reading this will hopefully forgive not hearing my news sooner...
I'm expecting the next addition to the Ginger Tribe at the end of February! 
Exciting? Hmmm... well yes.
Scary? Hell yeah!
Anyone care to hold my hand??
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Latest reply: Oct 15, 2007
phone
Posted Feb 12, 2007
My lovely new phone went belly up recently. 
After having had it supposedly fixed, I've found that all my old contact details (not to mention my diary dates, including birthdays! 
) have been lost into the void.
So if anyone's reading this has my phone number, please text me with yours! 
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Latest reply: Feb 12, 2007
My little Ming
Posted Dec 22, 2006
It is with great sadness that I post here in my journal that my beloved Ming, my cat and familiar, is fading from this world.
Ming is suffering from kidney failure and has been on a drip at the vet's for the past 48 hours, which sadly hasn't halted or reversed the rising levels of toxins in his blood.
This has been very sudden - one minute he was being shouted at for jumping all over the TV, and the next he was limping around in a sorry old state. I can't quite get my head round the fact that he is dying.
I visited him at the vet's today and fully expected to see him in the same state that we brought him in, not fully conscious and fading away, and thought that would make it easier for me to make the decision to put him to sleep.
Instead he recognised me and was desperate for strokes and cuddles and seemed to have revived a bit, until I saw that his nose was becoming ulcerated due to the rising levels of toxins.
I don't want to kill my cat!
But I can't let him suffer.
I gave the vet some homoeopathy (which I've been told would help him feel more comfortable and maybe help his kidneys to start working again) and left him there for another 24 hours to see if it makes any difference.
But realistically, tomorrow I will have to say farwell to my beloved Ming forever.
I love you Ming. Thank you for sharing your life with me for the last 9 years. May you find peace and healing, and may your spirit find sancturary and comfort.
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Latest reply: Dec 22, 2006
9 months is a lifetime
Posted Jul 26, 2006
Lilith was 9 months old on Saturday. This seems a very profound time to me - she has been Earthside as long as she was inside me.
She is now crawling and trying to get into *everything* (especially paper for some reason), and is desperately trying to walk. I'm particularly ..fond... of the way she wakes me up in the morning by sticking her fingers up my nose and then using me as a climbing frame. Time to put her in her own bed perhaps?!
The Man and I do have a cot (we've even put it up, but we don't have a mattress 
)but when I put Lilith in there at the weekend it made me cry. The Man said it was because of the enforced separation, but I suspect it was more than that. My baby is growing up.
I realised that it's me that's not ready for her to be away from me at night, and so it's back to the family bed for Lilith!
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Latest reply: Jul 26, 2006
A new leopard cub in town!
Posted Oct 26, 2005
I had a baby! 
A not-so-little girl born on Saturday afternoon at home in the birth pool, weighing in at a whopping 9lb 3oz...
She has no name yet other than Pumpkin 
, but we're trying out a few until one or more of them click.
I've snuck on here whilst The Man looks after when I should be catching up on sleep, so will have to run...
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Latest reply: Oct 26, 2005
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