February finds me longing for a day off. I don’t want to complain because I love my life and I am INCREDIBLY blessed, and I know this. But I am greedy and what I would really love, what I find myself longing for with an increasing fierceness, is a day that is all mine. A…
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Ugh. We have been sick all weekend. First it was Ralph, who went to bed just fine on Wednesday night and within four hours had produced enough mucus to fill a swimming pool. By Thursday night Scout had joined that club, and managed to sneeze INTO my mouth not once but twice while I was…
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This is Part B to the post I published a couple of weeks ago, on what clothes to buy to prepare for a new baby. The previous list was for babies born in the warmer months, this is a checklist for babies due when the weather turns cold. My goal is to help you create…
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I know, I know, it’s controversial. It’s also a day off together as a family and we get precious little of those so we’re making the most of it. To whit: I am eating lamingtons (n.b. the spell checker tried THREE TIMES to change that word to laminations). I’ll be back tomorrow with a really…
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Warning: if you love snail mail and/or you have children in your life, this toy will rock your world. It’s a painted, wooden, miniature replica of the Australia Post boxes you see all over the country, with the same little slot for posting letters, and the same pull-down panel for posting parcels, as the real…
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Lately, around our house… SCOUT: Hey Mummy you my lunch. I gonna gobble you up. ME: Oh no, don’t gobble me up! I’m not your lunch! SCOUT: Shoosh. Lunch can’t talk. : : : SCOUT: I really need Weetbix Mummy. My tummy’s lonely. : : : ME: Hey listen to this classic old song [Split…
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Hello dear stranger! How are you? These joyful Christmas photographs were taken about 18 months ago. Wait. No, they were taken only three weeks ago. How is that even possible? How was your Christmas (if Christmas is your thing)? Ours was really lovely, full of friends dropping by and delicious food and very excited children…
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A first birthday is tricky, you know, because you can’t focus on the child’s age. So you can’t plan party games because they’ll most likely be too old for some of the kids and too young for the others; but you can’t have no games at all because then you’ll have a lot of bored…
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How do you compress a person into a year? How do you tell, without being impossibly shallow, what a child’s birthday means to a mother? Can anyone truly build into words the story of a little one who one year ago wasn’t here and now, as the sparklers on his birthday cake sizzle and glow,…
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Sometimes do you go along to something that has so much potential but it just falls short? And you’re left with a bit of an empty feeling and you think, “This could have been SO GOOD, why didn’t the organisers take it there?” Yeah me too. I spent the afternoon on Saturday imagining how I…
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It’s almost time for the official count-down to Christmas to begin. The advent calendar was one of my favourite Christmas activities when I was a child. Normally my aunt or my Nanna would give us a calendar, and we couldn’t wait to open the new little window each morning. All that anticipation. WHAT will be…
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The growing semblance of sleep at night Air conditioning Being loved My lemon tree The exquisite, unbearable heartache of motherhood The morning’s first cup of tea Creative freedom Creative inspiration Peace, in my corner of the world The opportunity to contribute Turkish Delight On the weekend our family shamelessly appropriated the North American custom of…
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