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- After extensive travel for short periods both inside Australia and overseas, I took a break from my health policy job to travel for two months in Spain, Portugal and Morocco and live for four months in France, three of those in Paris. I'm currently living back in Australia with Steve and our twins Rhea and Lara.
![Last weekend we took the girls on their second plane trip and went to a wedding. The girls aren’t too far behind me in the wedding stakes, relative to our […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Airafs-wedding1-e1348925346744.jpg "Wedding weekend")
![Some days, like those days when the girls are sick and seem to cling to me all day, whinging and eating at my patience, a test of endurance for which […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/books-115x115.jpg "We love books")
![Apart from babies, the main thing that the girls are obsessed with at the moment is the car (‘dar’ in two-year-old speak). It’s an old grey Volvo station wagon, not […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/car1-115x115.jpg "Our dar")
![Two Girls – How old are you? – I’m doo! Yes it’s been two years already. And the girls had their birthday party on their birthday last weekend. It was […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/balloons-115x115.jpg "Two girls")
![– When is Maggie coming back from overseas? I was having a chat with my sister’s friend from school at the Farmer’s Market stall where she and her husband sold […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/marcus1-115x115.jpg "Uncle Marcus")
![The acquisition of language is one of the great miracles of life. Building up to a working vocabulary of tens of thousands of words over a lifetime, the early stages […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/conversation4-115x115.png "10 words you can’t live without")
![Lara seems to call it ‘ice’ – I don’t know why – and Rhea doesn’t call it anything in particular. But they both understand ‘time for milk!’ and come running. […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/african-statue-115x115.jpg "Toddlers’ milk")
![I’ve been back at work now for eight months already. I’m working three days a week, so now during the course of a week the girls are cared for by […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/girls-in-hats1-115x115.jpg "The rhythm of our days")
![Lara: We went on holiday. We drove for a long time to get there. Rhea: And when we arrived there were people everywhere. Lara: We caught lots of buses. Sometimes […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/download-115x115.jpg "Our holiday adventures")
![It was hard work preparing for Christmas this year. I wrote a list of presents I needed to buy. Luckily we do the ‘kris kringle’ present exchange now in our […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/presents1-115x115.jpg "Pre-cents")