We love Grandma’s house and for the next six months we get to live in it while they renovate our house. We’re ten minutes from our Cooee Bay beach house but a world away from our tiny abode. There’s a lot to like about Grandmas’ house. So many things that I can’t quite figure out […]
How to get to Upper Stony Creek Ruben, Max and 5 1/2 month old Hugo are off on an adventure to Upper Stony Creek. After packing the sandwiches, treats, fruit, bottles, formula, baby food and coffee from Lure Living we are finally away. Only 30 mins late, bonus. Off we go from Yeppoon, past Pacific […]
It’s sad but true, Mr 2’s Preschool teacher, the cool dude who wears shorts, beanies and a lazy smile is breaking up with us. Okay maybe he’s not breaking up with us but he is leaving and we want to say thanks. What do you buy a 20 something, guy preschool teacher? Nope. I couldn’t […]
I knew that big school would teach my kindergarten kid a lot, but I wasn’t prepared for the five things the start of big school would teach me. This year I became the mother of a kindergarten (Qlders read prep) kid at big school and my littlest went back to preschool. I’ve been describing it as traumatic but as […]
A quick two-hour trip from Wollongong and we were ready to start kickin it with the kids in Canberra. The purpose of our trip was some quality family time and birthday cake with the sister-in-law. In the meantime we had three days to fill and two kids to keep entertained. Questacon was the suggested first […]
Organising, a Christmas party for 200 or a town party for 1000, no problem . Have me organise my own child’s fifth birthday party for 12 and I start to sweat. I’m not kidding. The Rubinator turned five recently and a Batman party was high on his agenda for a perfect birthday. Hosting it at our small abode was […]
Dear Adam Mansbach, when you wrote THAT book, Go the **#@ to sleep, politely dual-released as, Seriously just go to sleep, I read it and I laughed. I try not to make profanities a part of my everyday vocab, but I laughed the laugh of a parent who has two children that go to sleep as […]
What if you could read a book without taking your hands off the steering wheel? or discover the steps to a new career. All this in the time it takes to drive from Brisbane to Sydney. Would it change your mind about long distance driving? Our family drives long distances a lot. Whether it’s a 300 or […]
A little while ago I signed up for Digital Parents International Blog Swap Day. That’s where DP pair you with an awesome blogger from the other side of the world, with a blog similar to yours and you get to post on each others blogs. Lucky for me so did the lovely, talented, resilient and awesome […]
I have to be honest when I sat down to write about family, the first of my seven passions, I struggled. I mean where do you start? How can you put into words the magnitude of what your family mean to you? As a kid I think you take family for granted. Mum and Dad […]
