School Holidays are like being between the devil and the deep blue sea. You long for the school term to end and for the carefree days devoid of structure to begin but two weeks of kids mess, ‘I’m bored’ and ‘what are we doing today?'...
Quick school holiday meals are a must during the long summer Christmas break. During the school term I'm relatively organised. I know what we're having for dinner in the morning, the meat's usually defrosted by the end of the day and the meal usually contains some form...
Twenty-five years ago, eight year old Pete and his six year old brother Mick Ireland sailed onto the Capricorn coast with their mum, dad, four brothers and sisters on the way to Lizard Island. This week they revisited the journey on their own boat Balamara...
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....
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 [caption id="attachment_2197" align="alignright" width="300"] Upper...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...