Random thoughts about motherhood:

- it's fabulous to see Jasper develop and grow everyday.

- looking after Jasper has turned out to be a lot nicer experience than I anticipated.  I had thought it would be all work and no fun.

- I'm a task oriented person, I like working on something until it is finished.  I now get inturrupted alot and I get really frustrated about it.

- I like doing laundry.

- I can't work out how other mums manage to cook dinner - I think that if I tried to produce a meal every night it would tip me over into crazyland. Chris has always cooked and I can't see that changing any time soon.

- I need to find a way to excercise.  It's 40deg outside EVERYDAY and taking a walk is no longer an option.  I'm thinking about aerobics video tapes.

- Have I thrown away my career?  I had a dream last night that many of my old VicRoads workmates were here on holiday and it was so nice to see everyone again. And for some reason I'm crying as I type this.

- I don't read to Jasper enough

- We've been giving Jasper food to taste over the last week like grapes, banana, watermelon and mango and he just screws up his face and looks at us like we're crazy people.  I tried to feed him some rice cereal yesterday and got the same response.

- I was going to wait to feed him solids until he's 6mth old but he's started waking for feeds during the night again and I think perhaps it's because he's ready for solids.  Last night he woke at 11:30pm, 3am and 6am and I'm grumpy about it.

- I've got overdue library books to return.

- Ok, that's enough randomness for today. 

I'm on a mission this week to make christmas stockings for all three of us.  Mine uses a piece of embroidery that I had done with no purpose in mind, Yay!!!

I felt an earthquake last night!  The bed rocked backwards and forwards and our wardrobe doors rattled in sync. It was 7 on the richter scale, but it originated a long way away, so I suppose we got the soft tail of it. 

Chris was up trying to settle Jasper and didn't notice anything.  I've heard that dogs get premonitions of these things... maybe babies do too? Maybe that's why Jasper woke up and squawked the place down just before I felt the quake.

Years ago, when we lived in Gippsland, we experienced an earth tremor that we didn'tfeel.  However, a bag of books fell off a shelf which we thought was a bit odd at the time. Then we worked it out the next morning when we saw the news.

I had all sorts of ideas for things I could make today. But I'm having difficultly settling on anything.  I cut some shapes out of a magazine with the idea of doing a collage.  But it didn't work out.  So I took some photos of the piles of cutout bits then chucked the lot in the bin.

We might go to the pool later.