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 …

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 …

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 …

Bittersweet Celebrations

This weekend we celebrated a year since my son was diagnosed with the autoimmune disease, Type 1 Diabetes, with his first ever Diaversary. A year ago we finally surrendered to the subtle hints his eight year old body was giving us that he was in the very early stages of his pancreas giving up the fight. …

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 …

A Mindful(ish) Festive Season

  I love Christmas! If you come near me during December I’ll absolutely be singing or humming a Christmas carol, after all it is the most wonderful time of the year. My family absolutely gets into the Christmas spirit and invests a lot into feeling good about the season. We give to the poor, we focus …

Hugh

Intuition (noun)- a thing that one knows or considers likely from instinctive feeling rather than conscious reasoning. Synonyms- hunch, feeling, feeling in one's bones (shut up!), gut feeling, inkling, suspicion.  Gut Feeling At my final ultrasound before Hugh was born, my husband was late for our appointment. I wasn't too worried as I had always spent …

Busy Getting Bonkers

A few years ago I was in a bad relationship that I couldn't see out of, a relationship with Busy. Busy is the perfect partner for a potential Supermum, the finest multitasker and juggler there is. I absolutely thought it was my mission to fill my life with as much as I could, I was on …