We’ve just come home from two and a half weeks away. We spent christmas on a beach about three hours drive south of Sydney which for us is great because packing for that long for a family of six when you have to fly anywhere gets tricky. Being able to just …
Jude and I were on the news last week. https://au.news.yahoo.com/nsw/video/watch/25668488/gender-wars-toy-boycott-outrage/ I wish I could say it was because of something really huge and important and amazing but it wasn’t exactly about anything I am passionate about. Nevertheless we were on the news and Jude now thinks we are famous. The …
I am forty one years old. I quite like being this age. I don’t really understand these ageing celebrities who are desperately trying to cling to their youth. I understand they must feel threatened by the prospect of not getting the attention they once used to, but the ones who make themselves look …
Each week I get an email from each of my sons parent class reps to remind all the parents of things that need to be done during the coming week. I cherish these emails because with four kids if I’m not careful things slip through the cracks. Like the ONE …
It was Holly’s 11th birthday last week. With four kids I’ve now got the birthday party prep thing pretty sorted, given I seem to always have a child who’s about to have one. The cake however is always my undoing. When we lived in London, I wouldn’t have dreamt of …
Yesterday Rob and I came home from an amazing child-free five days away in Noosa. Rob has a really high stress job and works ridiculous hours so the past few months have meant he’s hardly around on week days and weekends with four kids are anything but relaxing. So my …
Each saturday two of my boys have swimming lessons and my daughter has gymnastics at the same time, so Rob and I usually take turns doing one or the other. That’s actually a lie, I have never done the swimming shift because Holly’s gymnastics happens to be right next door …
On friday I forgot to pick Jude up from preschool. Forgot. Totally, totally, totally forgot. It was a day out of the norm, the other three kids were at a day of school holiday activities and I was picking up two extra kids and bringing them home with me too. …
Bloody Minecraft. As we speak my three sons’ excitement is at fever pitch because they’ve worked out how to make red sheep. Apparently this is almost as exciting as when they learnt how to make a cow waterfall. We have many ups and downs in our house in relation to Minecraft …
About a week ago Luca came up to me and said “Mum, what’s this” and then handed me a pocket knife. Rob has had it for years and like most of his gadgets it never gets used, instead it’s just shipped around the world whenever we move and it ends up …
I have had the best school holidays. Next Tuesday when the kids go back is coming around very quickly and I’m already dreading it. This wasn’t always the case. I used to hate school holidays and couldn’t wait for my kids to go back to school so I could have …
Yep I can’t believe it either. In a few weeks it will be a year since we left London. Beautiful, lovely, amazing, London. My happy place. Then there is Sydney. Eleven months ago I’d have called it things I won’t repeat but I’ve since made peace with my hometown and …
I’m not going to be able to write a new post today given the sickness at my place today .. so i’m going to rehash an oldie… Hopefully I’ll be back to continue my 30/30 blog posts on saturday when the gastro has subsided .. THE CHICKENGATE SCANDAL
The bomit is back. Tomorrow it will be two weeks since Spewfest 2014 began and I am slightly sick and bloody tired of it. I don’t even feel sorry for my kids anymore, that has passed and I am just RUINED (please see my contact details for where to send …
As I wrote the heading to this blog post I realised I’m probably going to get some cricket fans directed my way .. how disappointing for them. I hate cricket. Anyhoooooooo …… The vet rang yesterday to tell us Peanut’s ashes were ready to collect. So today I took Jude …