/ I go on about socks in winter but come summer I’m vigilant about hats. This lovely one arrived in the mail from Acorn Kids. / the Christmas Bush has bloomed red; the festive season is [...]
Reading Christmas books is one of my very favourite ways to herald the festive season. I keep our small collection of Christmas stories with the fairy lights and decorations. For most of the year [...]
The children’s mezze plate is what I make on “easy dinner night” (that or eggs + soldiers) – lots of fresh vegies, avocado on sourdough, hummus and olives. Every piece of [...]
This isn’t a fairytale but there is a moral to the story. Exactly eight months ago I was squatting in the hospital corridor after experiencing on-and-off early labour for a week. I [...]
The hardest thing about working from home is the blurry line between work life and home life. And when you’re a work from home mum? You have to physically draw the line, so to speak, [...]
We planned relatively big age gaps knowing that at some stage we would be dealing with three very different stages of childhood at the same time. It’s one of those situations that you [...]
We went down to the water in the early evening and while the big kids swam I sat Percy down and watched his toes curl and fists clench. He ate a fair bit of sand, his face grimacing with the [...]
Just this week Percy started commando crawling, he waved goodbye to Daniel and when I asked him for a kiss he pulled my face towards his and sucked my nose. Baby’s getting big. I was [...]
The wintry storm that came and disrupted spring is still carrying on outside. Inside is much the same; convalescing, fighting, squealing and boredom stirred together with a pinch of fed-up and a [...]
Daniel and I often remark on how different our entry to parenthood would have been if Percy was our firstborn. He’s been (by far) the most unsettled of our three; the fussiest feeder and [...]
Poet’s operation was, in every way, a standard procedure. And yet taking your child to hospital, talking them through the procedures and eventually handing them over to the operating [...]
Hand a new mum a biscuit when her arms are full of baby and her head is tired and weary and you’ll have a friend for life. Indeed, when it comes to making a new mum happy it’s all [...]
