Another year older! I’m writing this the morning after my birthday with a Champagne and sugar hangover. In all the day-to-day madness, I made my own cake this year and the kids iced it with abandon … ...
How are you? Are you having a magical day? I have a severe case of the post-Disney blues. I wasn’t expecting to love our trip as much as I did. Yes, Disney World is an over-commercialised, overwhelmin...
As you know, despite the sugar madness, I love Halloween! The sheer volume of all the candy makes me sweat but we have learned how to handle it over the years. We live in an extremely popular trick or...
I’ve always found big storms exciting. There’s something about being tucked up safely inside with the wind and the rain lashing at the windows, that’s comforting and exhilarating at the same time. But...
There’s nothing like a browse through the aisles at People’s Pharmacy to make me realize that Halloween has changed – partly because time has marched on, partly because Hallmark are so good at convinc...
Auto-correct, spellcheck, predictive text — all so useful, and yet so, so annoying. Recently I signed an e-mail “Best Retards”. Resorting to shorthand afterwards and signing off “Best”, I actually wro...
Last week I wrote about Jenna and that’s a little hard to follow. The highs and lows of our domestic life seem less significant these days. It’s a sense of perspective that I am trying not to lose. Ev...
If you knew that tomorrow you would have to start the fight of your life, for your life, would it change how you viewed today?
Would you complain about your hair, knowing that soon it would fall throu...
After a two-week holiday with the girls I am finally home, happy and jet-lagged …. and forever grateful for the invention of the iPad.
Our return journey began with a four-hour coach ride, continued ...
Week two of Natural Kids camp and I am in need of some ear plugs. We have more children and a higher percentage of boys so the decibels have cranked up somewhat.
But aside from the assault on my ear d...
