Tehani Croft Wessely's Blog, page 26

Welcome to the world

On Thursday 8 November at 9.37am, we welcomed Daniel Rory Wessely to our family. Born by caesarean section at Launceston General Hospital, he weighed 4490g (9 pound 14), was 53cm long with a 38cm head circumference.

We’ve been getting to know our new baby over the last two days. He’s quite a lovely little fellow. Very placid, an excellent feeder, and he loves cuddles. His preferred sleeping position is on my chest The big kids are quite enamoured and I’m looking forward to getting home so th...

Well, this is it!

Today is our last day of being a three child family. Tomorrow, I will be holding a brand new PERSON in my arms, instead of in my body, and that is pretty darn cool! Big kids, particularly Miss Seven, are pretty excited, and we are too – can’t wait to see what this little person looks like, and start to get to know him. Will he look like his siblings? Will I get the red-head I’m hoping for? Will he be as good a baby as the others were (fingers crossed!)?? A new chapter of our family’s journey...

Officially unemployed

Today was the final day of my contract for the university sessional work I was doing. Of course, I’ll still monitor the forum for a couple more days, and I’m running a pre-exam chat for the students on Sunday, but I’m officially done. And that means officially unemployed, for the first time in a LONG time. I haven’t been formally jobless since we moved to WA, and even then I was actually still on the books with the QLD Education Department when we moved, and I got my job at Kolbe within two d...

All about the marking

After three and a half assignments worth of marking in the space of a few weeks, seems like I’m finally in the swing of it! This batch has been going really smoothly, and I’ve now got more behind me than ahead of me, which is very nice. Will do a couple more tonight, and finish the rest off during my child-free day tomorrow. And then I’m DONE! One more week of monitoring the online forum and supporting the students in the pre-examination stress, and that’s dusted. And I’ll be officially unemp...

New Project! Year’s Best YA anthology…

You know me, hate the thought that I might get *shudder* BORED or something! Alisa Krasnostein at Twelfth Planet Press and I will be co-editing a new Year’s Best reprint anthology (due out in 2014), and it will be all YA stories!

Twelfth Planet Press announces a new Year’s Best reprint series, the Year’s Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction.

Editors Alisa Krasnostein and Tehani Wessely are now reading internationally for the inaugural anthology, and are seeking Young Adult speculative fiction f...

Getting there, slowly

Starting to accept I need a nanna nap in the middle of the day – has become a habit over the past few days, and while I feel bleaurgh immediately on getting up, I am more productive thereafter. It probably doesn’t help when I stay up until nearly 1am reading though! (The offending book was Quintana of Charyn by Melina Marchetta – so good!).

Looking very handsome with his lovely even haircut!

Master Two and I had a nice morning – wandered around Bunnings looking for a couple of things we needed,...

While I procrastinate a little more

I’m avoiding making dinner (it’s only going to be spaghetti on toast, but I’m still procrastinating!), so I thought I’d quickly update.

Am a bit weary today – I know I should give myself a break, as I’m nine months pregnant, but I generally feel fine, so tend to overdo! I finished my second last batch of marking on Thursday and have given myself the weekend off “paid” work to catch up on other things. Those other things haven’t really been achieved today, but I have managed to go to a book lau...

36 weeks!

We hit 36 weeks pregnant yesterday. All well, though doctor said at yesterday’s appointment, “There’s a big baby in there!” which is a little worrisome re possible early arrival! He also got sweetly excited when we were looking at my appointments over the next couple of weeks: “So we’ll see you here next week, then you’ve got a hospital appointment the week after, and then (astonished look as if this only just occurs to him), and then it’s BABY!” I like him Which reminds me, I really need to...

GIVEAWAY: To Spin a Darker Stair

To celebrate the recent multiple award nominations for author Catherynne M Valente and artist Kathleen Jennings, FableCroft is having a giveaway of To Spin a Darker Stairon Goodreads. Easy to enter, and three books available to win! Open internationally.

Goodreads Book Giveaway


To Spin a Darker Stair
by Tehani Wessely
Giveaway ends October 31, 2012. See the giveaway details at Goodreads.

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