May 24, 2018 | Parenting is Haaaaard
I’ve been working on an assignment most nights this past week. When I haven’t been working on it, I’ve been feeling guilty for putting it off, and there’s been this little voice saying, “we need to do the assignment.” It’s not...
May 21, 2018 | Parenting is Haaaaard
Merging onto Row Highway last week, my nine-year-old glances over her right shoulder and with casual condescension says, “feel free to change lanes any time now, Mum.” It makes me so cross I almost pop a vein in my neck. A few days later I’m driving...
Mar 24, 2018 | Parenting is Haaaaard
To the mums and dads getting the kids ready for school, The last few days of getting-ready-for-school rated at a 10 on the Cherry Chaos Scale. On Friday, 10 minutes before departure time, when no hair had been brushed and library books were still AWOL, I snuck off to...
Feb 17, 2018 | Parenting is Haaaaard
Yesterday we took the day off school and work and went to Adventure World. It’s a thing we do every year; making family memories and all that. In the morning while Leigh was out buying a hot chicken, I decided to get the kids to do some pre-Adventure World...
Oct 31, 2017 | Parenting is Haaaaard
Despite the wobbly start, Sienna has really enjoyed daycare this year. She talks about her daycare friends all the time and because she was enjoying the social interaction so much, we decided to increase her to two days a week. But for the last two weeks, she has...
Aug 27, 2017 | Parenting is Haaaaard, Thinking About Life
FLAKEY SCALP I am literally falling apart. As in, I have the worst dandruff of my life. Not very glamorous, I know. I went to the chemist this weekend and told the pharmacist that I needed help. That the flaking is so bad that I am walking around with my own personal...
