Archive for April, 2010


For anyone still reading this blog.

I am now a Parenting by Connection Instructor. Look out parents, here I come to tell you what’s what! Well, not really.

So much is happening in my life at this very moment. I have two projects going  full steam ahead. I am currently organising venues to run support and study groups for parents. I am not sure at this stage whether I will need an ABN or what else I will need to do – will I make enough money to call this an income? Can I get away with not declaring it as income, but just as a hobby? Do I register my name or should I have a business name? So many questions that I need to find answers for.  Thank goodness I am not doing this alone. I need to speak to my accountant about all of this business stuff. I’ve always been an employee and now here I am as a what? service provider? We’ve chosen an hourly rate for our services in running the support groups that is much less than my hourly rate as veterinary surgeon. I don’t think at this stage I can give up my veterinary work. As much as there are days when I do not want to go to work, the money is very handy, useful and very necessary at this point in our lives.

Another major project is happening and it’s a good thing that there is nothing one can do but just trust in God and wait this one out.

THEN I have to organise children’s entertainment for an upcoming fundraising event but there is just no room at all for a jumping castle and I cannot think of a single thing that the kids would find entertaining. I have 3 children but could not tell you what kids find fun these days. What is wrong with me? Does anyone have any ideas what I can fit in a 5m x 5m area that will keep the kids happily entertained while their parents stuff their faces on all you can eat brunch food?

I am feeling completely overwhelmed with everything right now. I need to just take a minute to just do nothing and more importantly think nothing.

Caturday

The lion sleeps

Here is Noodles once again. He is normally in stalking position, ready to jump at some bug or anything moving for that matter but this day he was quite content to curl up in the long grass and have a nap.

Cats sleep anywhere, any table, any chair.
Top of piano, window-ledge, in the middle, on the edge.
Open draw, empty shoe, anybody’s lap will do.
Fitted in a cardboard box, in the cupboard with your frocks.
Anywhere! They don’t care! Cats sleep anywhere.

- Cats Sleep Anywhere by Eleanor Farjeon

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