While my house is always filled with friends, family and visitors, but blog very rarely has anyone else on it. I think that might have something to do with my control freak tendencies? Today though, I have a visitor - Matt from Dad Down Under.I met Matt a few weeks ago at a Dettol Mission for Health … [Read more...]
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Reasons 1347 & 1348
November 8, 2012 by 30 Comments
Daisy goes to our local Primary School in the village. It's teeny tiny, with just 35 kids there, but they are the most delightful group of children I've ever come across. Because the classes are so small they all play together - the Kinders with the year 5 kids, all included, all together. Some are … [Read more...]
Cup runneth over
November 7, 2012 by 31 Comments
Yesterday was Melbourne Cup day. I peaked with the Melbourne Cup in 1982, when I was 5 years old. I won with a horse I picked, Kiwi, and have never won on it since. It's quite an institution in Australia "The race that stops a nation" with lunches and events being held everywhere giving everyone an … [Read more...]
Number 1
November 5, 2012 by 38 Comments
Gosh this has been a big year for Daisy. The past week I've noticed just how much the year has caught up with her. She is exhausted. Plain and simple. I'm wondering how it seems like just yesterday that she was about to start School and now here we are limping towards the end of December.There's … [Read more...]
Solving the big issues: A study in cushioning
November 4, 2012 by 46 Comments
Last week I was listening to a very funny segment on 702 Sydney with James Valentine whereby mostly men were calling him up to complain about various things about the house that they get in trouble for. Things like wetting the bathroom, not being able to light candles and the ever controversial … [Read more...]
Exhale
November 4, 2012 by 13 Comments
My ALARM went off this morning. That is worthy of caps for a few reasons: It was Sunday morning AND I woke up before any of my children. See? Cap worthy. I dabbed some instant calm oils on my last night and fell into the deepest, soundest sleep I think I've had in months. Maybe even years. Oh the … [Read more...]
Pretty in pink
November 2, 2012 by 13 Comments
Right. So it's only 1pm? Huh. It feels much later. So much fitted into just half a day. So what's been happening? Well. Let's see.I started my day at 4.45am to head off to the Flower Markets at Flemington. My Mum and I were doing the wedding flowers of a friend (nothing too big, just a few bouquets … [Read more...]
Raw? Mexican? Good? YOU BET.
October 31, 2012 by 29 Comments
Last night we had some friends over for a cheeky mid week dinner. It was long overdue and a lovely, relaxed evening of fabulous food and company. When the dinner invitation was accepted I got a few dietary requirements: vegetarian and gluten free. I then got myself confused and added vegan into the … [Read more...]
The little cracks
October 31, 2012 by 36 Comments
This morning I had the bright idea to sort of Daisy's thick hair once and for all. All the girls at School are wearing pig tail plaits, but all the girls at School do not have the thick horse hair that my first born was blessed with. One of my School mum mate's yesterday suggested a CRAZY idea. … [Read more...]
The clothes puller
October 29, 2012 by 70 Comments
Yesterday afternoon I was at swimming. It was 4.30pm on a Monday afternoon. Harper was bored and tired. It was humid and hot in there. And it was swimming, did I mention SWIMMING? So it was extra annoying. Needless to say, my patience was a little, shall we say, thin. Wafer thin. Wafer thin wafer.I … [Read more...]
Video killed the Radio Star
October 22, 2012 by 12 Comments
Rob and I sat on our front verandah over a crisp Arneis on Saturday night and nattered about important issues. Like where the new vegie garden will go, if we should get chooks, and about Old Media v New Media. He's pretty clever, so I told him he should write a blog post about it. This is … [Read more...]
The lazy co-sleeper: Week 8(!) update
October 15, 2012 by 48 Comments
So it's now been 8 long weeks since I started to retrain Harper into sleeping in her own bed. All night long. You can read some of the previous updates here (week 1) and here (week 2).So, how's it all going?Well, I'm still very, very tired. I'm not sore and stiff from sleeping next to a toddler all … [Read more...]
Blind leading the blind
October 14, 2012 by 39 Comments
Yesterday we were heading home from 3 days at the Problogger conference in Melbourne. It was early, we were tired and somehow I lead us to the wrong gate for our flight. We even got so far as lining up to get our boarding passes scanned when we were informed that it was a Jetstar flight and we … [Read more...]
Solving the Big Issues: The Fancy Edition
October 3, 2012 by 36 Comments
Just because I'm on holidays doesn't mean that I stop working. I just don't. Always observing. Always reporting. And always bringing you the big, important issues.Like this one.I'm staying at my Brother's fancy house down here in Melbourne which has been exciting because it's the first time I've … [Read more...]
On growing up and letting go
September 28, 2012 by 18 Comments
It's been a funny kind of week here at our place. It's been holidays and yet I haven't worked as hard in a long time. We should have be lounging around, and yet it's been 5.30am starts each day and out the door for swimming at 9am. There have been old issues rehashed, revisiting old wounds and … [Read more...]
Down that Little Lane GIVEAWAY
September 25, 2012 by 179 Comments
I have long been a fan of Down that Little Lane. I love the concept of shopping through 550 boutiques online in my pj's, having a selection of some of the best stuff out there, all in the one place. It's smart. It's fabulous. It's stylish. What's NOT to love?Tessa, who runs the company, and who is … [Read more...]
Crafty Minx
September 25, 2012 by 20 Comments
Day one of the School Holidays combined with day one of my period, day one of a 9am swim school camp and after a weekend of not enough sleep. It wasn't pretty, not pretty at all.I was shouty. The girls were over tired and over wrought from a busy weekend, month, term, year. Oh and they were sick. My … [Read more...]
I can’t live, if living is without you
September 20, 2012 by 83 Comments
I must be getting my period because yesterday I was scratching around the pantry searching for anything sweet. The kids lolly bag scraps only yielded shitty little sherbet odds and ends and the biscuits left in the biscuit jar were the bottom of the barrel orange creams that NO ONE likes. Well, I … [Read more...]
Making beds while the sun shines
September 19, 2012 by 32 Comments
Yesterday because everyone had had such a bad nights sleep before AND the sun was shining, I thought it best to pull together the trifecta.Clean sheets on all 3 of our beds. Because clean sheet day makes EVERYTHING better. It really does.The girls still have their flannelette sheets on because it's … [Read more...]
Solving the Big Issues: Riddle me this
September 18, 2012 by 44 Comments
I'm a complex woman, no doubts about it. Just ask my husband. Or Mother. Or my kids this morning who are dealing with a crazed lady barking at them because they keep waking up at 5am. As you know, I am a person soothed by cleaned floors. Crumbs are not acceptable in my house, let's not talk about … [Read more...]
