This week the WordPress photo challenge was a phoneography one. We had to take our phones and explore our neighbourhood. Tough one for me. This means I have to take the photos and not my talented brother with his high-quality camera. When I first moved to Port Macquarie I searched for a house that I… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Family Living
Five Moment Memoir
How’s this for an idea? If you struggle with finding the time to journal (or write a lengthy word count blog) how about having a crack at a five-moment memoir. Freelance writer Sarah Beauchamp wrote about her concept of journalling in Oprah Magazine. Basically she forced herself to write down five things that happened each day, both… Read more »
Love and Other Injuries
Whenever someone refers to me as “Mrs W” it always means trouble. Having never adopted my married name when people start the conversation with “Are You Mrs W” it means either a telemarketer trying to sell me something or my husband has another crisis. The last time I was addressed in such a way it… Read more »
So That Was Christmas
Are we all done with Christmas now? Hopefully you folks at the wrong end of the world have finished your Christmas day festivities as well, so we will all have survived the family get together and gluttonous overload. We celebrated at our house again this year. It’s a strategic thing. If we are having… Read more »
So That Was 2012
Well the good news is the world didn’t end. Heads up to those of you in different time zones, Australia’s still here so you’ll all be OK. There was some torrential rain around the suggested hour of destruction but no flaming meteorites. Phew. So given we all didn’t detonate during the night I’m taking the… Read more »
Christmas Wish List
The children have been offering suggestions for what they would like to find under the Christmas tree for a few weeks now. Nobody has asked what I would like, until Rachel at The Kids Are All Right tagged me in a Christmas Wish List meme. What would I like? A financially viable, personally fulfilling, passion fuelled, stay-at-home… Read more »
Year Six Graduation
They are the millenium babies, born at the turn of the turn of the century, into a world moving at a pace never seen before. Yesterday the babies graduated from Primary School. Our days of reading groups, dioramas, art displays made from toilet roll holders and helping out at excursions have wrapped up. We sat… Read more »
Christmas Cometh
I know there is a big day approaching. There are Christmas carols streaming through the PA at the shopping centre, I can’t for the life of me find a car park, and people are talking about presents, food and the heat. In my usual state of chaotic disorder I am not acknowledging the big day…. Read more »
Weekly Photo Challenge – Green
Kermit lamented the difficulties of “being green”. God knows he had enough on his plate trying to deal with Miss Piggy without the added pressure of green-phobia. The nasty remarks by people who couldn’t see past his top-to-toe greenness to discover the kind, loving frog inside. I have a lot of empathy for the little… Read more »
We May Not Be Cut Out For a Five Star Life – and other Tales From The Road
2,500 kilometres. 3 states. 4 stopovers. When I first started blogging I wrote a post about my guilt over not having had any family holidays for a long time (it’s been about four years), I’m over the guilt, we are never leaving the house again. Note to parents of young children, don’t waste money and… Read more »
Janine Fitzpatrick is a personal blogger with an untidy house, imperfect children and no celebrity friends.
