Present, perfect husband, blood sugar

1. My mother has a talent for buying presents that are almost but not quite what you wanted. Today is no exception.

2. After dinner my husband puts away the leftovers, stacks the dishwasher, and puts the kids to bed.

3. Since getting a diagnosis of glucose intolerance (almost-diabetes) a week ago I've been moderating my food and checking my blood sugar levels. All within limits, no spikes. I'll be able to argue that I can fully manage with diet modification alone, if indeed my doctor is considering putting me on medication.

Olympics, Olympics, Olympics

1. I was writing on my laptop while watching Olympic highlights when the computer suddenly crashed, and when I turned it back on I seemed to have lost a whole morning's work. But the computer managed to retrieve it all up to the last save, so I only ended up losing a couple of paragraphs.

2. I've been using a rowing machine regularly at the gym, and I am now 2/3 as good as an Olympian. The single woman's skulls takes around 8 minutes for the 2000 metres, I take 12 mins.

3. We are around the other side of the world from London so I only get to see a little bit of live Olympics before I go to bed. But every morning after dropping off the kids at school I watch the two hour highlight show and enjoy it very much.

3BT, Dungeon Pets, mint chocolate

1. Reading the original 3BT blog. She finds three things every single day.

2. My new board game, Dungeon Pets, even though my husband has won both times we've played.

3. Cadbury mint bubble chocolate.

Hot shower, coming home, fish

1. I forgot to turn the heating down last night so I was a bit sweaty this morning. A hot shower rinsed the night away.

2. My husband is away for the weekend but the night without him is now behind me and he called this morning. He'll be home at dinnertime.

3. One of our aquarium fish (a "flying fox") regularly entertains us by doing backward somersaults over and over.

Release, poem, dog

1. I didn't realise that they had changed the free parking at the shopping centre from three hours down to two, and there was a queue behind me as I sat in my car rejected by the exit because I hadn't paid for my two and a half hours. A man jumped out of his car and trotted up. "Don't tell my boss," he said as he swiped his employee card over the machine.

2. I saw a lovely poem somewhere on the internet:
Charmander is red,
Squirtle is blue,
If you were a Pokemon,
I would choose you.

3. Joe brings his little dog Jemimah for the school pick up and the kindy kids crowd around. Jemimah is friendly enough and seems to enjoy the attention, but when she sees her little mistress Miah she leaps to her feet and strains on the leash to get to her.

Thyme, no photo, iPhone

1. The beef bourgignon is ready and I easily find the thyme stalks -- now deunuded of their tiny leaves.

2. They don't need to take my photo after all, which is a huge relief as my hair is unwashed, I have no make-up on, and I am recovering from the flu. It would not have been a good day to be immortalised on plastic.

3. My little boy loves my new iPhone game Tiny Monsters -- and so do I.

Orange, nap, book

1. I cut up a juicy orange for Aiden and it looks so good I have one for myself.

2. Dozing off for an afternoon nap with my sick little boy, warm under the covers.

3. An idea I have for a children's book.