The age-old debate of whether to work or stay at home has reared its ugly head again thanks to American politics. Hilary Rosen, a Democratic strategist, commented that Anne Romney, wife of a GOP presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, was not in a position to give her husband economic advice on the plight of women because she had "never worked a day … [Read more...]
Rainy Day Blues
The morning began by bailing water out of the car. It appears my car leaks. Rather substantially leaks. To the point I was heading towards cover-your-feet level flooding in the driver's side. I'm on holidays. Therefore we are now experiencing torrential rain. The two go together like strawberries and cream - Janine takes holidays, the heavens … [Read more...]
Family
"I don't know what a family is, how to define it, other than as a collection of people who bind themselves together and get weirder and weirder until no one understands them." Eddie Perfect, Comedian and Actor Family. A conglomerate of individuals melded together. Some with blood ties others conscripted in through marriage. A family is an odd thing … [Read more...]
Sunday
Sigh, this is why I couldn't enter the Lifestyle category in the Sydney Writer's Centre Best Australian Blogs Competition. I try to do a nice photo of my Sunday lunch and manage to capture daughter's PJ's hanging on the clothesline in the background. Before I started blogging I used to be jealous of the beautiful blogs with the lovely houses and … [Read more...]
Bucket Lists BEFORE and AFTER Children
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...]
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 Question of Faith
Hippie Child laughed at me on Good Friday. It's not unusual for Hippie Child to laugh at me but this time she included questions that left me tongue-tied. There was no food in the house on Good Friday. Despite my best intentions to get to the supermarket on Tuesday I just hadn't made it. By Thursday I should have left work and gone straight to … [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...]
