Autumn, and a week off between Easter and Anzac Day. Back to Steve’s family’s holiday house via a day-long drive,…
Browsing: Parenthood
I’ve been reading a few books recently. The first by Susan Cain, Quiet: The power of introverts in a world…
February, and our land is bleached, torched, scorched. Heatwaves longer and hotter than last year fill our days and nights.…
‘Would you kids shut up! We’re trying to sleep!’ I was about 10 years old and my brother and sister…
Rhea and Lara have ticked off some milestones this year: they were weaned at 32 months; they are completely toilet…
Twenty years ago, in February 1993, my grandmother made some apple jelly. I found it at the back of our…
Following a ten day survival experience that was compulsory in Year 9, my friends and I became keen hikers and…
The airport has been modernised and expanded and now you can’t see any airplanes from the big windows unless you…
I usually think of myself as a resilient person. Sometimes though, I think resilience is about admitting defeat and asking…
Our babies are three, and that means they can go to a three-year old preschool (‘playschool’) and are beginning their…