After some prolific birthday cake baking last week for Mags I thought I would take a trip down memory lane and have a look at some of the birthday baking over the years. Much like Maggie's Newicorn cake that was a bit lop-sided and the icing all dodgy, all of my cakes have been a little like that, … [Read more...]
Maggie’s 3rd Birthday Newicorn Party
May 7, 2018 by 10 Comments
On Saturday we celebrated an early birthday for Miss Maggie with some of our friends and family on a beautiful Autumn day, just like the one on which she was born. Of course because I am going to be in London for her actual birthday, I said yes to ALL of the things (in fact I suggested most of them) … [Read more...]
Autumn: A lesson in surrendering
May 1, 2018 by 12 Comments
Today is the 1st of May 2018. I reminded Rob this morning that it was 14 years ago today that we celebrated our engagement with friends and family on the rooftop of a Darlinghurst bar on a superb Sunny autumn day much like the one we are enjoying here today. I had to find a photo to show the … [Read more...]
Things I like {The 29th April 2018 edition}
April 29, 2018 by 6 Comments
Thank you for all your lovely words of encouragement on my post this week, I am going to reply to all your comments just as soon as someone stops asking me for food, which will happen on Tuesday when the kids are back at School. It's been a lovely break for us all, but like any Mum at the end of two … [Read more...]
Some of my best days, are farm days
April 21, 2018 by 6 Comments
Rob and I were married on the front lawn of the house here up at the farm. We decided long before we ever lived in the country, that we wanted a country wedding, with friends and family coming to visit to stay and kick up their heels. We were married on Easter Saturday in 2005 on a stunning autumnal … [Read more...]
And on we go.
April 10, 2018 by 37 Comments
Yesterday Rob and I took Daisy off to her High School interview. Yep, that little baby that I wrote about in the very first post on this blog almost 12 years ago, will soon enough head out into another phase of childhood and those ties that bind us get yet again a little looser. I drove her there … [Read more...]
Sick kids? Here’s what I use
April 8, 2018 by 9 Comments
I have been a little MIA the last few days. Every one of the girls have gotten sick (just a cold nothing too bad) and a niggle I had in a tooth has blown out to a full scale blown face DISASTER that saw me at the dentist at 9am on a Sunday for an emergency X-ray and seriously excited about an … [Read more...]
My quick go-to cheat dinners
April 3, 2018 by 36 Comments
As sure as the bottom of your laundry basket will NEVER be seen, your family will inevitably ask you "what's for dinner?!" and APPARENTLY it's up to us to feed them. Again. I know! Every night. I definitely have my shortlist that hit the dinner table every week but I thought we could all help each … [Read more...]
Easter 2018
April 2, 2018 by 6 Comments
Well here we are, Monday night of the long weekend. I am most definitely more tired than I was at the start of it (hello end of daylight savings that saw Maggie asleep on the couch at 5.55pm tonight) and markets and visitors and lunches out and late nights... Easter was everything I wished it to … [Read more...]
Happy Easter friends!
March 29, 2018 by 2 Comments
I hope that right now you have a drink in hand, sleeping, happy children collapsed in bed either at home or away for a long weekend with friends or family. Easter is my very favourite holiday in the whole year - while we are always trapped here at home in the village for our big Easter market on … [Read more...]
Full & Thorough Reporting
March 27, 2018 by 6 Comments
OK, full debrief is essential don't you think? So much been going on and even though I have been around, I thought a good old fashioned update was called for. Are you ready? Let's do this. I am 100% not going to talk about the fact that it was a year yesterday since Rob and I arrived in New York … [Read more...]
Full Maggie Update: 2 years, 10 months
March 20, 2018 by 22 Comments
Does Maggie move from toddler to Preschooler when she turns 3 I wondered the other day? How can that be when she was LITERALLY just born? And now? Well now, she's the one who makes up bedtime stories at night. Here's her the other week telling me a tale in the darkness. Once upon a … [Read more...]
6 little lessons learned this week
March 16, 2018 by 7 Comments
Is it just me, or has this week been the l o n g e s t? And of course now that it's Friday, we will blink and it will be Monday morning again. Sigh. But still! FRIDAY. I am feeling very virtuous as I have been exercising, eating well and haven't ONE drink since Sunday. I know, it's not much, … [Read more...]
Remember me? Trying to reconnect with your partner with a house full of kids
March 13, 2018 by 16 Comments
How's things with you and your significant other at the mo? Like if you were rating where would you sit? -5? 3? 9? Somewhere in between? It's hard isn't it? Sometimes when I am drinking milk out of the carton looking at the fridge and hiding from my family I see pictures of us and think "was that … [Read more...]
Lawn gazing & food grazing
March 12, 2018 by 1 Comment
How was your weekend? If you were lucky like us, you may have had some of the most beautiful summery early Autumn days that even though it feels hot, the lights is different and it's cooler at night so (to me) they just seem all the more beautiful. We had slow days at home on both days with lots … [Read more...]
I’m bringing Nanna back….yeeeeaaah
March 5, 2018 by 17 Comments
There's been many a sign along my journey to Nannahood since I turned 40. Actually, strike that. I have been a Nanna waaaay before then. But recently I have really felt closer to Nanna and further away from cool young thing more than ever before. I mean there's these on my table this morning that … [Read more...]
To a mundane last Tuesday in Summer!
February 27, 2018 by 13 Comments
Man have I been in a bad mood for the last week. Dead SET, I am even annoying myself don't worry about it. SO many complaints and eyerolls and WOE IS ME, it's been very exhausting for everyone involved, namely myself. It takes quite a lot of energy to be all cranky and teary and generally over … [Read more...]
Our move to the country
February 26, 2018 by 5 Comments
Today we are in the Sydney Morning Herald talking about our move from city to country life which we did almost 8 years ago now. You can read the article online here. Such a small part of the questions were published, so I thought I would share my long form answers in case anyone wanted to read some … [Read more...]
Full & Thorough reporting
February 25, 2018 by 6 Comments
Is it raining where you are today? It's gloriously wet here, properly sodden, wet, soaking rain that has all the trunks of the trees dark with rain, the grass greening before our eyes and the cheers from farmers heard in the distance. It's been a long, hot summer and we have some Autumn rain! Even … [Read more...]
Daisy is now 11!
February 16, 2018 by 10 Comments
Our sweet Valentine turned 11 on Wednesday, a simple celebration filled with all the things that she wanted: some new things for her grown up bedroom (she gave her room a little makeover after Christmas) and so asked for new bedlinen and odds and ends...including some succulents from her Grandma … [Read more...]
