Category Archives: Parents

What’s “really’ in a dream then?

Posted on March 21, 2014 by Tracy Lundgren

To follow up from my dream post the other day I thought I’d delve a bit deeper. We all dream. We all MUST dream. If we don’t dream we literally go nuts, so even if you don’t remember your dreams, … Continue reading →

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Of life, love and marriage…

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Tracy Lundgren

Today, instead of talking about food (thank God they say!) I want to simply meander around through distant and sometimes murky puddles in my head. A little fill in…. My parents divorced when I was ten years old and my … Continue reading →

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Eleven kids!

Posted on January 3, 2014 by Tracy Lundgren

Recently, well last year sometime actually, I happened to make contact with an old friend from YEARS ago….when I was a different person. Young, and reckless, in a band….going off gigging to far away places, sleeping in the back of … Continue reading →

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The sound of memories.

Posted on August 29, 2013 by Tracy Lundgren

Tonight as I sat alone in the kitchen, the house silent except for the ticking of the clock on the wall above my chair, I wondered why I find this sound so comforting. It is a sound of memories, I … Continue reading →

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Progress…does ones head in!

Posted on June 25, 2013 by Tracy Lundgren

My mother cracks me up sometimes. I got a phone call from her last night and first off she was very cranky with me because she’d been trying to call and my phone was not hung up properly. Then she … Continue reading →

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Irresistibly cute!

Posted on June 14, 2013 by Tracy Lundgren

My daughter and grandson are staying for a few days with us at the moment. Life is busy. My daughter arrived looking like she was moving back home carrying in armfuls of toys, prams,bags and more bags, cots, more toys… … Continue reading →

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The antisocial network.

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Tracy Lundgren

I resisted creating a facebook account for years, sick of hearing facebook this and facebook that…and having people ask me “How come you’re not on facebook?”. It was like some sort of cult….some mass following, and I usually resist these … Continue reading →

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Getting reaquainted with….babies.

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Tracy Lundgren

My daughter and grandson came to visit and stayed the night. That still feels so weird saying that -“grandson” but I’m slowly easing my way into the whole nannahood thing. Unlike parenthood, which simply smacks you in the face – … Continue reading →

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Love, bubbles and granny knickers.

Posted on February 24, 2013 by Tracy Lundgren

So my daughter had her baby. All went well. I tell you what though I was doing some mental pacing the whole day waiting to hear that he’d arrived. So now she has the “knowing”. Initiated into the clan of … Continue reading →

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Hearts wide open.

Posted on February 21, 2013 by Tracy Lundgren

Today marks a special day. My eldest daughter has reached a quarter of a century! Hell that makes me feel old. I love this pic of her… I still remember that first morning alone with her as a newborn. Quiet … Continue reading →

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