Maggie Le Page » Kids https://www.maggielepage.com Writer Thu, 06 Jul 2023 21:26:19 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.4 Out Of The Mouths Of Babes https://www.maggielepage.com/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes/ https://www.maggielepage.com/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes/#comments Fri, 25 Oct 2013 01:29:15 +0000 http://www.maggielepage.com/?p=2987 So there I am, congratulating myself because my two offspring are finally (finally) enjoying each other’s company. They’re pretending to be other people, shrieking and giggling and having a ball. Then Miss Four says, “Hi, I’m Mummy and I have a very big bottom.” In the gales of laughter that follow I suddenly realise –...

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]]> https://www.maggielepage.com/let-it-snow/feed/ 0 Want To Know Why I’ve Been AWOL? https://www.maggielepage.com/want-to-know-why-ive-been-awol/ https://www.maggielepage.com/want-to-know-why-ive-been-awol/#comments Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:26:08 +0000 http://www.maggielepage.com/?p=2919 You’d think God would be kinder to me. I mean, s/he’s thrown half a dozen significant earthquakes at me in the past nine months (hell, by comparison even pregnancy’s fun), and we’re being put through thousands of aftershocks, not to mention the loss of job security. Our city’s broken. Isn’t that enough? I took on...

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