This morning when I was going through my blog comments deleting all the spam I get each day from spammers trying to get me to enlarge my penis or buy metal roofing products from them, I took a look at the side bar and saw how my blog posts have …
Last Friday when I collected Charlie from school he came bounding out of his classroom holding a small round soft toy and a large book under his arm. It only took me about half a second to work out it was his turn to bring home the class teddy. Except …
When I was a little girl my Dad got a new car. It was a brand new beige Sigma station wagon. I know, total chick puller. Anyway, this car was my Dad’s pride and joy and he looked after it very well. My siblings and I weren’t allowed to eat …
As I’ve proved time and time again, strange things happen to me. Today is a home day so just before lunch I always take our dog, Peanut, for a walk with Jude. Today we walked a few streets from our place and past the street where I grew up and …
My life is pretty stressful. I’m not sure if stressful is the right word though. It’s busy and chaotic and very full, and it’s very loud and shouty with so many kids, but does that make it stressful? Or just crazy? Rob’s life is very stressful. He has a borderline …
Today I just had one of those days. Not desperately horrible, just you know .. meh. We are into week two thousand of the school holidays and because of our London Sydney move last year, my kids have only done one full term of school since June/July. They’ve been on …
I love 80’s music. It brings back all sorts of memories. I spent all of my high school in the 80’s so I associate lots of fun times in my life to it. I know every generation says it, but they just don’t make music like they used to (oh …
You’d have to have been hiding under a rock not to have seen someone post some kind of fitness inspiration photo somewhere on the internet recently. You know the type. A photo of an extremely thin and muscular woman with the caption “strong is the new skinny”, or something equally …
My kids fight. All the time. I don’t know if it’s having three boys and one girl, or the dynamic of their personalities but rarely do a couple of hours go past without some sort of squabble. I can deal with most parenting challenges but the fighting just does my …
This christmas holidays was the first time my kids have spent any time at a beach with proper waves. Yes, really. All the holidays they’ve ever had at the beach were while we were living in London so although they’ve holidayed on beaches in Europe – none of them were …
Unless you’ve been hiding under a rock somewhere and haven’t heard, I hate hot weather. Hate it. With. A. Passion. Not ideal when you’re an Australian. Even as a kid I hated hot weather and part of the joy of living in London for so long was escaping long hot Sydney …
Each morning Rob and I have the same disagreement. I am going to re-phrase that. Each morning I get the shits at Rob because I can manage at least a couple of dozen tasks in the time it takes him to do one. It really is like groundhog day. Each …
My six-year-old son has a school assignment. I think that actually means that I have an assignment, really. Doesn’t it? It’s a class book where all the kids have to do a double page of who they are and a bit about their short lives in two giant A3 pages. Lots …
Not sponsored Last night we went to the Lend Lease Darling Quarter Theatre in Darling Harbour to a function for Rob’s work. They are a huge sponsor of the Starlight Foundation and there was a production at the theatre about inspirational stories of people who’ve been touched by the magnificent work …
I can’t bake. I like cooking but I don’t bake cakes, biscuits, slices or anything sweet apart from Pavlova and especially nothing involving pastry. I’m frightened of pastry. I can make packet cakes if they are just the ones where you add a couple of eggs and some oil and …