A few weeks ago I headed out on a sunny weekend afternoon with Young Gun to a beautiful spot in the Royal National Park known to locals as Temptation Creek (the track is known as this, I think the waterway itself technically has another name). Access to the creek is from the suburb of Grays…
Growing up, my family was never big on things like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day and any other Hallmark Days you care to think of. I do remember feeling a bit like the odd one out during my school days as all my friends would talk about what they had bought for their mum,…
I haven’t been to the Easter Show for years, partly because I don’t like crowds, partly because it’s so expensive and partly because I never get to just look at the things I want to see – I’m always holding someone’s bag, standing in queues for food, rushing through the craft or cakes because everyone…
This post is inspired by a number of things. Partly a great blog post I picked up on WordPress’ freshly pressed page about being facebook friends with your parents, partly this cartoon from Unshelved and partly some stuff going on at the moment with my own kids. It’s a fine line we parents of teenagers walk,…
…or, ‘How did I become old enough to have a child enrolling at Uni today?‘ Heavens to Betsy – is it really 13 years since I first dropped The General at kindergarten? Back then a whole lot of things were different: I didn’t own a mobile phone I had a 6 month old baby (who…
Today it’s 5 years since a very dear friend of mine lost her 9 year old son to a brain tumour. I have blogged about this event before, from the perspective of being involved in a community that pulls together in the face of adversity. (As an aside, it seems to me that with the…
This video speaks to parents of teenagers everywhere (don’t worry kids, tomorrow’s is a chance for you to say ‘but we live with THIS!’):
Last week the General graduated from high school. Of course, we haven’t had the HSC yet, so technically it’s not over, but his years of formal education between 9am & 3pm 40 weeks of the year are over. Finished. Ended. It’s really real. I vividly recall his first day at school – in fact his…
What happens when ALL your kids decide to move to their dad’s for a while and are only home with you 4 nights in 14? What on earth did I used to do with all that spare time after work and on weekends before I had kids? Suddenly, 6pm seems awfully early to be arriving…
The General has had another car accident. Again, it wasn’t his fault but again, his car has been written off and again, he has neck and back injuries that are keeping him from school and work. The doctor also thinks he might be slightly concussed. Also this week in the 3-ring circus, Bookworm has surgery…
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