The List

My children are so excited about Mother's Day. Really excited. They can't wait to give me their carefully chosen present and cards and poems. They are really into this year, and not just because it means they got $3 to buy a gift at school which technically means they got $2.50 to spend at the …

The Elf on the Dusty Shelf

It's that time of the year again, that time that has every parent on high alert. December 1 marks official Elf Season, the time when all of the Elves on the Shelves are freed from their polar caves and released into the world to spy on their chosen family. I'm miffed as to what these …

Netflix Killed The Video Store

I recently heard that the last Blockbuster Video Store was closing in Sydney. My kids asked, "what's Blockbuster?" How can it be that in my life time I have seen Blockbuster become a thing, and then not a thing and I'm not even forty yet? I tried to tell them all about the novelty of …

Sleep

Most parents can only dream of sleep. It's one of the most discussed topics in parenting circles. Your children are either awesome at it, or crap at it, and it's the olympic gold of parenting if they are champions of sleep. It's a tricky thing, because if you get a sleeper you have to keep …

Bricks and Broken Dreams

I've been pretty quiet on the blogging front lately, and with good reason. You see we've been very busy chasing our dream home and it's consumed absolutely all of my time, my energy and my, well, life. It's a tale of manifested dreams slowly coming to life, being so close, and then watching it all fall …

Mother’s Day. Or so you think…

It's Mother's Day tomorrow. Or is it? Is it next week? No one knows. No one knows because Mum wants you to sort it out for yourself. The shops will confuse you because they've been getting ready for this for ages because you probably don't want to miss the one day you show mum how much …

My Grubby Loves

I've tried to get my children to be clean, to be hygienic, I really have. But despite my best efforts, my little loves insist on being filthy little creatures. Filthy! Tonight my youngest left the bathroom, looked at his unwashed hands and declared, "I don't have germs." And that was it. I remind them every …

Mummy Lifting

I feel like my journey as a Mother has been lived out at a time of phenomenal change, and I put most of that down to the huge influence and involvement social media has in our lives. A common theme on social media of late has been "mum shaming". A term thrown about that means what …

Growing Beans

If you ever have to create a science experiment for children I suggest growing beans. They're incredibly fast growing, like super fast, so the results are great. The same goes for growing humans, if you want to see one grow quickly, get yourself a baby and then blink. One minute they're just a nuggety lump …

Christmas Cards and Children Don’t Mix

It's supposed to be something nice to do at this time of year, writing Christmas cards with small children to give to their equally small friends to wish their little selves all the best for the festive season, yet my inner voice is screaming "abort! abort!" within seconds of the boring task. It's taboo, I …