my son would be proud

Your results:
You are Spider-Man
Spider-Man

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85%
Superman

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70%
Supergirl

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70%
Wonder Woman

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70%
Green Lantern

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60%
Hulk

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50%
The Flash

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50%
Robin

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40%
Batman

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35%
Iron Man

thanks to jubileeman (see links) for last 2 quizzes.

i am harry

but think really i am hermione...

jean seberg - new style icon

I just bought some sass and bide jeans - called the jean seberg. cropped, skinny and grey. I looked up images of jean seberg when I got home, as I had a vague idea of what she looked like, but here she is, and basically thats my hairdo! thats kinda what I want to look like - I look a very little like this, but add in a few years, fatigue, no makeup, hair grown out somewhat as don't go to the hairdresser every week, no ironing of shirts...

another sleep update

Well, sleep for owl is a lot better - he goes in cot now, and evenings are now great, and we get most of the night at least- but we haven't had a magic fix. Continuing problems:

1. daytime sleeps - if I don't time this right, owl screams for the whole hour before as per instructions I pick him up. A bit trial and error - it seems that the very alert owl needs to be up for at least 4 hours before he can be counted on to sleep in the day. still testing this...

2. breastfeed number and sleep at night. It looks like 6 feeds at the moment means good night sleep, but 5 feeds means not making it all the way through. Problem is, that 5 feeds during the day suits him and us better - otherwise he has to be fed when not hungry, and he vomits some up, and hard to time this around sleeps, and hard to time with brother's nap and going out. Also seems to eat solids better on 5 feeds.

3. Even on 6 feeds 5:00am is all we can count on - not the 6am the Earl childhood nurse suggested. This is the least of our worries though - i think I can live with this if 1. and 2. can be solved!!!

trying at the moment to get an appointment to see nurse again. Any suggestions are welcome.....

parenting a multi person job

My husband has been away for a week - gets back today. So been me and the boys, with some hands on help from grandparents, and some phone support from friends. I really feel for single parents - it is very hard to do it by yourself - very tempting to let things slip too. Though I don't agree its a 2 person job, parenting - more like a 10 person job!!!! Welcome home, my partner in parenting.

harry potter

facebook and blog are breaks from potter at the moment - i am trying to make it last more than a couple of days, just like I do with my easter and xmas choccies. I will not put any spoilers ob my site until all regular readers have read it!

facebook

sorry dear blog, i hae a new current obession - my facebook ! but I promise not to neglect you. Joined this week - already been good for connecting with long lost friends, and for keeping up with how people I see more frequently are day to day (like see who is sick and so on).

update on owl's sleep

2nd night: awful - needed us to go in after almost every cycle for several hours
3rd night: good!!! some very brief cries, but didn't go in til 6:15 to feed him

today: days haven't been too hard until now because he has been exhausted. but today he hasn't been as tired, so been a little harder - 1st sleep cried 3/4 hour and only slept one cycle. one 2nd sleep now, cried until I left the room, but is asleep now. So a good improvement.

so getting there. been hard though. I'm tired so writing in short sentences! For those who prayed thanks so much - and keep going please.

hopefully very soon, the name owl will be a misnomer - will have to start thinking of something else.

teaching to sleep

We are currently using controlled comforting/crying - whatever you want to call it - to teach our baby (Owl) to sleep. I know there is a huge debate on this but as Owl had got to the point of refusing to sleep in his cot at all, we were desperate. Done one night so far - went really well. 3/4 hour to go to sleep, but then we only had to go in twice more during the night. Best sleep in 6 months for me, and now I feel like i can be a good mum to Sparky (2 y.o.) and a good wife too - manage all my responsiblities better. Still, not there yet, but an encouraging start - and owl doest sem traumatised. Lots of cuddles this morning!

favourite books

my fave books - a non definitive list as I kept putting off publishing this list in case I had forgotten something - so a work in progress.

classics
love austen. fave now is pride and prejudice - right balance of light and shade. as kid loved mansfield park as i identified with fanny with more self insight now, i am much more like elizabeth...
barchester towers series by trollope - just like church politics today. a real lesson in godliness not being which party you belong to, rather whether you are like jesus - or in this series like the warden.

literary
love AS Byatt. favourite is possession. very literary without being all pretension no plot.

fantasy
lord of the rings - see title of blog. very small person and mammoth task.

sci fi
native tongue series by suzette h elgin. sees women acheive liberation through their own language.

childhood faves -
all lm montgomery - favourite anne of the island and rilla of ingleside - the romance ones!
laura ingalls wilder - my fave was these happy golden years also the romance one...
narnia series
noel streatfield books such as ballet shoes

poetry
wb yeats
robert frost

light read
hornblower - swashbuckling - but with an insecure hero.

christian
bible - fave book in that philippians
prayer by richard foster - see chapter on prayer of tears.
wounded healer -henri nouwen - through our wounds we heal
crucified god - jurgen moltmann - theodicy of the cross.

recent faves
the kite runner - Khaled Hosseini - afghanistan from the inside and outside.
gilead - marilynne robinson - unexpectedly uplifting