The Bucket List BEFORE I had children. Cruise the canals of Venice in a gondolier with the man I love. Eat at a Michelin Three Star restaurant. Buy an outfit from the Paris Fashion Shows. Watch a Broadway show starring someone really famous. Float in the Dead Sea. Travel the Silk Road. Party all night at the Carnaval in Rio de … [Read more...]
It’s Friday the 13th
Just realised today is Friday the 13th, just wondering if I should head back to bed, pull the covers over my head and only emerge when the calendar reads a more favourable date. Then again I'm not superstitious, I don't think. I have avoided walking under ladders but I reckon that's a practical thing, people working above you could drop stuff on … [Read more...]
Caine’s Arcade
I love this video. Caine takes the whole playing with cardboard boxes to a new level and kudos to his Dad for letting his son go wild with his imagination. The video was made by a guy called Nirvan Mullick who just happened to wander into the spare parts auto shop one day and discovered Caine's Arcade. There is now a college fund established when … [Read more...]
Dads at Home
It seems we've come a long way in a single generation. Dads now play a much bigger role in their children's day-to-day lives than they did a few decades ago. Yet it is still unusual for men to accept the role of fulltime stay-at-home parent. Research carried out in 2010 by the Australian Institute of Family Studies identified only 7 per cent of … [Read more...]
Easter
It has been very nice to have four days off from the real world. We had Good Friday Lunch at Flynn's Beach. Chandler is still a sad dog, missing Abbey. On Easter Sunday we ditched our traditional baked dinner to head to a newly opened Chinese restaurant in town. When we lived in Brisbane we loved Yum Cha and we have missed it a lot since … [Read more...]
A Shambolic Birthing
If you had had a blissful pregnancy, a trouble-free birth and slipped easily into the world of yummy mummy step away from the screen there’s nothing for you to see here. On the other hand if you found the whole pregnancy/birth/breastfeeding thing a bit darn hard then open the wine we’ve got bonding to do. It’s been 15 years since I first … [Read more...]
Diary of the $120 Food Challenge
Well we've got through the week trying to live on the one grocery shop, how did we do? Probably not a raging success. I was attempting the $120 Food Challenge. Saturday Pantry clean out. Inventory of supplies. Plan the menu. Do the shop. Go over budget by $50 by adding in way too much expensive fruit and other breakfast/lunch treats. Not a … [Read more...]
Sunday to Sunday A Week On The Phone
The week began with our weekend in Sydney. We included a visit to the store I miss most living in a regional area - IKEA. I lust after this ... I live with this ... Oh the disparity. We designed two ads for museli and wrote a four minute speech about our ads, built a windmill and designed a flag for Antartica. Then I wrote a ranting blog about … [Read more...]
Homework an Exercise in Futility
How much homework goes on in your house? Are you a fan of the after-school revision, assignments and projects? Or do you resent the impact homework is having on your family life? At the risk of launching into a full-blown rant I have to state my view of homework, it is simply an exercise in futility. It's been ten years since we first experienced … [Read more...]
The Sydney Trip
We've been promising the kids for ages that we would get them to Sydney to see the Harry Potter Exhibition and the Picasso Exhibition. Given that the closing dates were looming it became a case of now or never. We managed to get the "only good for the wreckers car" repaired and registered. Although half way down the highway it developed a new … [Read more...]
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