When I was pregnant it was called ‘Placenta Brain’…. now that the baby is on the outside we happily refer to my lack of thinking skills as ‘Nappy Brain’, and I have it bad right now.

Yesterday I found a hair brush in the fridge. I tried to blame it on one of the children, but somewhere, in the technicolour fog that was once my functioning brain, I vaguely recalled putting said brush in a ‘very safe place’ only a few hours earlier… oops.

So I am not sure if this hair brained blogging idea is a result of having no brain to come up with interesting posts, or a result of having no brain to think through the consequences of my actions…. But either way, here’s the thing….

Ask me a question.
Any question you like.
And I’ll blog about it over the next few weeks.

Now I’ve seen this done on some fabulous blogs that I love and I’ve always been tempted to try it, but wary that perhaps no one has any questions to ask me. Perhaps I am too boring, or no one cares or I’ve already blogged way too much about myself and my life and my family and no one will ask a single question and I’ll be left sitting here in blog land all alone listening to the crickets chirping. Or perhaps I’m just all to paranoid for this!?!?

But I’m being stupid… ahem… I mean brave today… so someone help me out and ask me a question. Please.

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My friend at Yay for Home knows a lot….
I, on the other hand, only know a few things, like….

- If your kids do four year old kinder twice be prepared to gush over the same kid made christmas presents two years in a row.

- If there is a two year old learning to use the toilet in your house there will be lost of puddles and the occasional ‘poop-splat’.

- It took me six years to learn to just not put the breakable decorations on the Christmas tree.

But there are many things I don’t know, like…

- Why does time always fly when you have so much to do?

- Why is there never ink in the printer when you really need to print?

- Where are the mosquitoes coming from and how are they getting in?

- Who ate all the strawberries?

- Why did my girls stand up and dance in front of hundreds of people on Sunday then refuse to join in at their kinder concert on Tuesday?

- why don’t they make little undies? Size 2-3 is not big enough for my bumless children.

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Does anyone need cheering up? This always works for me!

I play Wordless Wednesday at Five Minutes for Mom. Find more wordless wednesday at Technorati.

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Just tying up a few loose ends and answering a few recurrent questions…

Firstly, since so many of you have asked… Our new vacuum is a Dyson. It’s this one... the smallest barrel vac and the cheapest. It has no fancy bells and whistles but since we don’t have any carpet, we didn’t think we needed a fancy turbo head or the like. It cost a lot – well a lot more that I would normally pay for a vacuum but we went with a heap of recommendation from people and so far I am really pleased.

After living with a crappy broken vac for so long I can’t believe how well it sucks! It sucked up the rice after last nights dinner with ease, and it’s sucking dirt from between the floor boards just like Rach said it would. So for now.. I am in full on vacuum love, will let you know if the love wears off!

Fikey Frinkles have taken over our house.. along with Fikey Fiders. The Small Boy can’t say ‘R’ leaving him to say ‘The Led Lobot’s in the Lubbish’ and now he is also having problems with words that begin with an S and then have a consonant after then… Spikey, Sprinkles, Spiders. It’s very cute.

In other news… I’ve been writing for Multiple Bliss, about sharing a birthday, if you want to go look.

I’m also a Mumbler Mum stay tuned for our first blog posts coming soon, or chat in the forum while you wait.

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It’s that time of year again… Ultimate Blog Party time!

Hello to all the party goers who might be popping in to party with the Picklebums for the first time. Welcome to the madness!

If you are new to my blog and wondering what on earth a ‘Picklebum’ is.. perhaps a quick run down is in order.

Picklebums are curious creatures who lives on the Pickle Farm, in almost rural Victoria, Australia. The first Picklebums came as a matching pair and have been nick named ‘the twinadoes’. You can read more about the Twindaoes here.

The second Picklebum is ‘Muski the Monster’ – don’t let the angelic white blond hair and blue eyes fool you, he is indeed a monster. Read about Muski here

The patriarch of the Picklebums is affectionately know as Baldy Boy…. though he doesn’t much like me blogging too much about him.

So that just leaves me.. Pickle Me Kate. I digi scrap, design blogs and like to take photos. I grow things and cook things… and oh yes.. I blog.. about almost everything.

If you wanted to find out more, you could check out my About Page… or you could read last years blog party intro…. or just browse around for a while and have a read…

If the technology and the interwebs play nice over the next few days I’ll be popping up a new Pickle dance party video… and maybe some other party goodness.. so come back soon ok!

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It seems somewhat frivolous to blog about general ‘stuff” when the death toll from the fires here just keeps getting worse and worse. 173 people dead the last time I heard the news and more than 5000 people without homes… incomprehensible in so many ways.

The girls and I collected up some of their toys and games last night to donate. The girls don’t really understand what has happened but they know about bush fires and they understand that some people have died and that some houses are gone, and they were so generous picking toys that they love the most to give to ‘the children who’s toys got burned’.

We’ll take our toys and some clothes to the local Salvation Army Store this week and also donate some money via the Red Cross or the Salvos. (I know that Salvation Army is able to take international donations – just be sure to indicate that you’d like the money to go to the Australian, Victorian Bush Fire appeal.)

There are so many other people out there doing wonderful things to help.

Meet me at Mikes is a local crafty shop in Melbourne and they have been coordinating donations of hand made good… now Handmade Help has popped up with lots of information as well as auctions and crafty ways you can help.

Beyond Pink and Blue is another crafty way you can help – they are putting together ‘comfort packs’ for children who have been affected by the fires.

Loads of other local fund-raisers are popping up all over the place. We’ll have a number of sausage sizzles to choose from over the weekend, and Coles is donating profits from their store’s sales this Friday – so save up your shopping and do it all then. They are still looking for blood donors also. You can check out ABC radio Melbourne’s website for a really good up to date list with contact numbers and information on how you can help

Of course right now the best thing you can do is donate some money if you are able.

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