I’ve had more time than I normally do with my Master C, who is four, over the past couple of Summer months. We have been to many playgrounds, movies and shopping centres, where he, being a very social creature, inevitably meets new ‘shriends’ (friends). What I have found incredibly interesting is observing the manner in … Continue reading Early Introductions
A contentious one. Australia Day – do we need to change the date? Now before you roll your eyes, get irritated and stop reading… just humour me for a minute or two. Those who know me know that I LOVE a good barbecue, with or without prawns on it, and any excuse to catch up … Continue reading Australia Day
It’s one of those parental love/hate relationships. We whinge about how much we can’t wait for the school holidays to be over, yet the second they end, we wish for more time with our little people again. At their tender ages of four and one, the opportunity to be an ‘At-home’ Mum to my two … Continue reading Summer Time
In the spirit of the New Year, I’ve been looking into all the fuss surrounding the Marie Kondo ‘movement’. For those who haven’t heard of her, Marie Kondo is a five-foot-nothing Japanese powerhouse of tidy who penned the Japanese best-seller "Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up'. She teaches people how to ‘free themselves’ of clutter, … Continue reading How’s the Serenity?
So this week is a bit of a big one for me. I’m turning 40 tomorrow. Whilst I haven’t yet fallen victim to the melancholy that a birthday of this magnitude can conjure, I am acutely aware that I’m about to take a flying leap into the ‘middle aged’ bracket. I remember as a teenager … Continue reading Middle Aged
I don’t remember a great deal about the birth of each of my children. It seems a common phenomenon that most of the pain and trauma of the child-birthing experience tends to fade from memory very quickly after meeting the new arrival. One shot of Cupid’s arrow and we succumb to the love bubble that is … Continue reading The Other Type of ‘Coming Out’
The theme of vomiting on holidays continued for us on Christmas Day, with poor Miss D waking us at 4:30am to tell us she had been sick everywhere in the bathroom. One expects to be woken early on Christmas morning, but not quite this early, and not quite for this reason. It was so bad … Continue reading A Christmas Perspective
The Emergency Department is never a fun place to spend time. Let alone when it is the night before your proposed honeymoon and your 17 month old is literally heaving and retching all over you as you attempt to give her details to the Triage Nurse. As I stood there unable to move, and feeling … Continue reading Off Duty
What I wanted, as a young twentysomething girl, was to fall in love. I wanted romance, I wanted fun - I wanted adventure. I wanted to share these things with someone who was as 'into' me as I was into them. Like anyone my age, I wanted to experience the intense feelings so characteristic of the romantic comedies … Continue reading The Pink Sofa
It had become all too obvious to me as a late teen that I didn’t quite fit in with the straight crowd: clearly I didn’t want to be spending my future with a man. The conversations were tiresome, the pretence was exhausting and I felt like a failure. I began to believe there really was … Continue reading No Woman’s Land
