As a parent I’ve calmly dealt with trips to the emergency with gaping head wounds, years of sleep deprivation, toddler meltdowns in the supermarket, building resilience in a bullied child, I’ve negotiated, reprimanded, encouraged, guided. Basically, I’ve been a paragon of virtuous calm and sense in the maelstrom of family life. (Well that’s my version… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Family
Confessions of a Failed Retro Housewife
This article has got people talking on social media The Retro Housewife. It paints a picture of educated, intelligent women ditching the board room to stay-at-home and raise children in between craft activities and baking. I stayed at home for ten years. It looked nothing like the pretty images of instagram and homemaking blogs. In… Read more »
Retro Recipes – Anzac Biscuits
I’ve fallen behind in the A to Z Challenge, now doing a desperate attempt to catch up so I’ll do a few posts tonight. In honour of Anzac Day here’s a recipe from my Nana’s old recipe book. Anzac Biscuits Mix together 1 cup each of rolled oats, sugar and flour, 3/4 cup of coconut… Read more »
Quiet
The children found some old home videos the other day. As we sat watching them the Hippie Child remarked. “Geeze, we were loud”. “Yeah” said Princess Child “we squealed a lot”. Yes girls, you were bloody noisy. You would think it would improve as they got older but having just operated the holiday break complimentary… Read more »
Photographic Evidence
Parents of young children, listen up, this is the ONLY piece of parenting advice you need. When you go above and beyond with your children TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS. You know all those activities that are messy, time-consuming, challenging? When you go to the effort of making them happen it is really important that you retain evidence…. Read more »
Motherhood
It was always going to be a recipe for disaster. A woman who never held a job for longer than 18 months (I have attention span issues), couldn’t manage to keep her bedroom in the share house tidy, and still called her mum for a loan when the electricity bill was due. This is the… Read more »
Chocolate
I ate an entire box of chocolates in one day and I didn’t share them with anyone. It was Easter, which I know is about Jesus and stuff, but heathens that we are it tends to be about the chocolate in our house. It was a bit of a dud Easter to be honest. A… Read more »
Bucket Lists and Bloopers
Remember when I worked out my bucket list and one of the items on the list was set foot on each of the seven continents? There isn’t the faintest possibility of that happening, not while we are living in a financial black hole of casual jobs and owner building. So imagine my surprise when I… Read more »
So I Had To Write A Letter To My Daughter
Dear Hippie Child It’s very late at night but I’m still up because the school has given me homework and I’m in trouble because I haven’t got it done. They wrote to us asking us to write a letter for you to receive on camp telling you why we love you, your best attributes and… Read more »
Household Tips For The Domestically Challenged
I’m not sure how it happened. One minute I was keeping my surname, planning a career, ready to take on the world the next I was living in the suburbs with two little aliens (some people would call them children, they would be wrong). The irony of my becoming a housewife induced side-splitting laughter amongst… Read more »
Janine Fitzpatrick is a personal blogger with an untidy house, imperfect children and no celebrity friends.
