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Tuesday, May 4, 2010 5:42:44 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled The first rule of fight club is…:
Deirdre said, "This is how I’m beginning to feel about my son’s Steiner school. Don’t get me wrong, there are huge benefits to this system of education and our son is much happier here than he was in his previous school, thanks largely to the..." more
Saturday, April 17, 2010 4:03:01 AM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled three year old mystic:
Deirdre said, " My three year old is addicted to the ‘high’ she gets from our homemade swing. All by herself she has come up with the request to be pushed ‘as high as the o’. She tells us the ‘o’ is the sun, isn’t that..." more
Monday, April 5, 2010 3:43:36 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled Natural teacher:
Deirdre said, "All my life friends and family were telling me that I was going to become a teacher. From the little things like the way I played with other children, ‘this is my game and this is how you’re supposed to do it…’ to the fact..." more
Saturday, March 27, 2010 4:24:46 AM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled extreme opinions:
Deirdre said, "At the moment I am swinging slowly back into gear after an extended maternity leave and beginning my practice again as a childminder. This work is very important to me, in fact I think that the care and education of young children is the most..." more
Sunday, March 21, 2010 4:58:20 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled mum the moderator:
Deirdre said, "Or at least that’s how I felt today. It’s exhausting sometimes keeping everyone’s moods on an even keel. Something like my being away over night causes so much disruption in the household it almost feels not worth going. The..." more
Thursday, February 25, 2010 3:24:16 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled when the poetical becomes personal:
Deirdre said, "continued from this poetic life. My eldest son is a serious and sensitive old soul. He is a poet too and had his first poem published last year, aged 11. He is studing Gilgamesh in school, his school being a Steiner school recognises his age as a..." more
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 8:37:35 AM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled Success with the middle way?:
Deirdre said, "Like the buddhists, I have tried the middle way and may have had some success. Rather than wean completely, I feed baba one feed before bedtime. I refuse the night wakings. This (touch wood, hope I’m not speaking too soon) seems to be..." more
Friday, February 19, 2010 3:10:50 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled To everything, there is a season,:
Deirdre said, "and this is not the one for weaning. As I posted recently, I’ve been finding the lack of sleep very tiring recently, I think baba was going through a bit of a night feeding surge. It didn’t help that his three year old sister picked up a..." more
Tuesday, February 16, 2010 3:02:07 AM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled sleep, sleep, I’d give anything for sleep!:
Deirdre said, "My three year old and my one year old are tag teaming us in the sleep department. The night one doesn’t wake us the other does. Though I must admit, the fault mostly lies with the one year old. I’m exhausted, last night was a bad one so..." more
Sunday, February 14, 2010 4:28:50 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled A change of focus:
Deirdre said, "My last post set me thinking. Yes, its disappointing to experience rejection but don’t I set myself up for it? Aren’t I aware, in some part of my being, that the writing I am sending out is not as good as it can be? So I decided that I..." more
Friday, February 12, 2010 11:52:47 AM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled dejected and rejected:
Deirdre said, "again, another oh so polite rejection. Well, I’m told get used to it, its ironic that writers who, in my experience tend to be on the senstitive side (myself very much included) that such a cruel process is inflicted. Definitely in need of a..." more
Thursday, February 11, 2010 3:46:48 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled my kitchen:
Deirdre said, "The other day I stood in the middle of the kitchen. I had it really clean and tidy. I was looking at the children, they had just been fed and were content, entertaining each other and I was suddenly struck with such loneliness. Its such..." more
Sunday, February 7, 2010 1:14:03 AM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled the unwritten rules:
Deirdre said, "apparently, I was completely unaware of this, but there is an unwritten rule (this possibly only applies in Ireland) that dinner must always contain meat. Perhaps it is because I was a vegetarian for a large part of my adult life that this comes..." more
Thursday, February 4, 2010 4:18:37 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled Nervously sent…first submission to an agent:
Deirdre said, "I met the agent Jonathan Williams at a party at a friend’s house years ago. My friend, another writer, had told Jonathan that I had done some writing that he thought was worth looking at and passed it on to him. When you are young all this..." more
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 4:34:17 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled co-sleeping, weaning etc:
Deirdre said, "My youngest turned one the other day. Since he was born he has never slept the night on his own or without feeding from me. In Ireland which is not really a culture where either co-sleeping or extended breastfeeding are that common, I often..." more
Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:09:46 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled submitting work – catholic style:
Deirdre said, "I made my first submission to a publisher by post today! I have been writing every day since August when on holidays I began to keep this blog and to write the novel, which became a series of short stories, which became one story that i liked, which..." more
Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:09:46 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled sick baba:
Deirdre said, "missed the writer’s group Christmas party tonight. Baba is just getting over an ENT infection so i didn’t want to be away. Haven’t gotten much writing done this week since he was out of sorts. when I let it go for a few days like..." more
Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:09:46 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled snow bound in Clare:
Deirdre said, "It was a real case of be careful what you wish for, 3 days of being confined to the house with three increasingly bored kids due to snow and treacherous conditions on the hilly roads round here. We made caramel popcorn, iced the Christmas cake,..." more
Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:09:46 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled kitchen confidential:
Deirdre said, "of course, only in this house do we select and try to have a kitchen installed over the Christmas holiday! I had floor level units (no doors or handles) for Christmas day, now I am the proud owner of floor level units (no doors or handles) the..." more
Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:09:46 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled winter exhilaration:
Deirdre said, "After days of being cooped up in our house in the hills, bound by a snow fall that would be considered mild elsewhere in Europe but proved too much for the services of a country used to a climate that varies little year round from mild & moist,..." more
Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:09:46 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled how do you continue to hope?:
Deirdre said, "‘When I start a book it’s a lot of fun. After a while it is work, then it becomes labor. Towards the end it feels like slavery! After I have delivered the finished illustrations to the publisher, I become sad. But when I see the printed..." more
Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:09:46 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled No more drama:
Deirdre said, "Today I attended the anniversary mass for my aunt who died three years ago from cancer, we were very close. Growing up her daughter and I were best friends. As a teenager I spent part of most weekends at her home, it was where I used to date, giving..." more
Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:09:46 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled a level of painful insight::
Deirdre said, " what the psychologist said our son had when he was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome this time last year. what I see him experience every time he comes up against an emotional situation that is beyond his coping skills. what I get each time..." more
Sunday, January 24, 2010 3:09:46 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled enemy of the state:
Deirdre said, "It seems to me that sometimes, family members become so much a part of your relationship that they actually come between you and without intending to, actually become an enemy of the state of marriage. This can happen if they involve themselves in..." more
Monday, May 10, 2010 4:56:00 PM
Deirdre Grimes wrote a blog post titled the wonders of the little prince:
Deirdre said, "Tonight as my little prince toddled around making a mess, picking up everything he could reach and dropping it into a bathtub, I read, sort of to his sister, but mostly to me, some more of this wonderful book. I am intentionally reading it slowly,..." more