Wrigglebot started kinder and as excited as I am for him I’m also really scared, not for him but for me. I’m beginning to realise that this time with my kids at home is drawing to a close. Wrigglebot will be at school next year, Squirm at kinder and I’ll only have ‘The Little One’ [...]
I have been so proud of my ability to stay on top of almost everything lately. The business, the housework, keeping my children alive, healthy and educated…I put it down to my incredible ability to multi-task, a skill every woman is born with. Okay, some do it better than others, but we all do it [...]
So when my kids are learning something new I like for them to have some success to encourage them to keep going. It’s a basic teaching technique. My kids fish now because the first time they fished they caught a fish. That we couldn’t rig but there have been plenty of things that we have [...]
When Milla was ten months old we fell pregnant with Finn. It was in the plan, all organised, and we were lucky enough for it to happen just as we wanted. Now, as Finn is almost nine months old, we find ourselves discussing the possibility of a third child. Actually, it’s one of those discussions [...]
I feel like we have been running around doing fun, summery things for weeks now so it’s nice to just be at home but it also explains why this post is about something that happened just after Christmas; Squirm’s third birthday. Occasionally I get a nice surprise when I realise that I get to do [...]
I have discovered the joys of ‘magic cream’. You know the cream that will fix any ailment from sore legs to a sore tummy to mosquito bites to a headache. Anything. It truly is amazing. It stops whining and tantrums and makes everything better. ‘And what is this special magic cream?’ you ask. Well, its [...]
Henceforth in our house there will be days that will be referred to as ‘Mussel Festival Days’. And here is why. Saturday was the day of the Portarlington Mussel Festival and our family decided to go. I don’t eat seafood but that’s okay they have other food there plus a guy dressed up as a [...]
We had a really magical Christmas (or Chifus according to Milla) this year and I think a lot of the joy came from having a two year old in the house and a chubby little baby celebrating his very first Christmas. Milla was one excited little girl and as usual, she marvelled at the gifts [...]
Aaah… that was me releasing my breath and finally sitting down after the craziness of Christmas. Now I love Christmas but that doesn’t mean that it isn’t exhausting. We went on holidays the week before Christmas, we go water skiing and each year it is a reality check as to how old we are all [...]
Every morning we have our little routine to farewell Daddy who is off to work. We wave and blow kisses and shout out, “Have a good day, we love you!” We talk during the day about where Daddy is and why he’s there and when he’ll come home from this place called ‘work’ and Milla [...]