Glad you had a good Easter! Mine was really good too. And busking? How adorable!! I bet that was very fun.
Oh, Crissy and a couple others from the Royal Family Drama formed a splinter board for the sort of discussions we had in the Open forum. I'd love it if you joined us, we don't have many members yet. If you're interested, e-mail me and I'll send you the link and such.
Anyhow, great post!
Cheers!
So lovely to see the pictures-and I think you're the first person I know in the real world with a blog! D is getting so big-I really need to meet your lovely boy. And my lovely girl turned 8 today-so old, and wearing shoes only a size and a half smaller than mine. Sheesh.
Aha, Crit, so there/here it is what you r really up to on the 'puter late at night!!! and as for bloggs you are the 3rd this year, (a friend from school in KTM has been working in Palestine against the wall, and a colleague from art school). so interesting things these bloggs.
Lovely to see you both today, tho I fear my time be limited as I can STILL hear yilani saying NARA loudly from her bed.....dang, and its been 20 mins.
oh well, love you
karyn xx
Hey, thanks for your comment on my blog. Will you please come back and explain what you meant about assisted homebirth no longer existing where you live? Do you mean there are no midwives in your area? Or did you mean that everyone's birthing unassisted?
By the way, I was impressed that your little guy is good at being the guesser when playing 20 questions! Even my 9yo doesn't really understand how to narrow down the choices. He just guesses randomly: is it this? is it that?
Julie: sure I will, I'm just on my way!
crit,
The only cure for sleep deprivation is sleep! I loved the picture of your son and his dad sleeping during 'Reading time'.
Anyway, what is busking? I've never heard the term.
Peace!
Thank you for coming back to answer my question, Crit (or should I call you Mummy? -- somehow that doesn't feel right!). I have another question, if you don't mind. When you talk about midwives being uninsured, do you mean that they can't get malpractice liability insurance, or do you mean they can't accept medical insurance? I am pretty sure my neither of my midwives had liability insurance. Nor did our medical insurance cover home birth. (That was the toughest part of the decision: home birth = $2,500. Hospital birth = free. Worth every penny.) Though I must confess I am completely ignorant of Australia's health care system. In fact, I didn't even know you had states until you talked about state vs. federal government.
By the way, if you like birth stories, check out this blog.
Julie, I meant liability, which my midwife had when D'Arcy was born...for a while there things got good, and you could even get your medical insurance to cover it, but then everything went pear shaped in the world of insurance...
Health care here is good - we have a good public system that is subsidised by the taxpayer, and hence free to use. We also have a comprehensive private system wich works on a user-pays basis. This means medical insurance is not the necessity here that it is in the US, unless you want to access the private system (and for childbirth, why would you? It's only going to get you more intervention, which does not necessarily equal better care...). the private system is OK for emergency care, but no good for elective (non life threatening surgery) '[cos the waiting lists are massive.....
Looking forward to answering the meme question, but will take some time (also haven't read Farenheit 451, but I think I'll manage to answer anyway)
Mrs D...thanks for popping in! I gotta figure out more HTML (in my spare time) so i can do the link thing...I have read the theory of it, but not tried it out.
Busking is street performance for money (I can't think what your countryfolk call it - I'll have to ask the expert)
D'Arcy's dad and I share parenting 50/50 but no longer live together. I still agree that it is a good photo, and so many of their reading sessions end up that way!
Lol, crit. Maybe they need to read more exciting books! ;)
Street perfomances mostly happen in the bigger cities like New York. People will play their guitars or juggle or dance to get tips. I'm not from a very big city, so I don't see much of that.
I just found your answer to my question here. It sounds totally different from what we have. Better, too, unless you want a home birth.
Anyway, I'd be please to have you link to me, and I'll link to you too if you don't mind.
The infamous Crit! I have seen you around the blog a few times, but you never left a link until now...so glad to meet your blog, and I hope I can come back often.
J
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