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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.
![There are three things that I don’t enjoy about having young children. The disturbed sleep. The early morning rises. And the mess. The mess was minimal when the girls were […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pram2-115x115.jpg "Walk, Run, Climb")
![In many relationships there is a dominant person, and in the case of Lara and Rhea it is no secret that up until now Rhea has been the dominant one. […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Playground-blues-115x115.jpg "Playground blues")
![– ‘How quickly does twenty years go?’ He had been a friendly boy but I doubt I had exchanged a word with him when we were at school together. We […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/report-card-115x115.jpg "20 years on")
![When does a baby become a toddler? My local baby centre nurses are adamant that the transformation occurs at the age of one (at their 12-month checkups: ‘I knew these […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/walking-photo.png "Leaps and bounds")
![We stuck to our plan, more or less, and enrolled in a seminar for parents of older babies who sleep poorly. I never got around to doing the internet research […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/moon-115x115.jpg "Up late: update")
![Lara and Rhea have turned one, and I went back to work part-time last week. We’ve started another chapter in their lives and another routine for all of us. The […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/bed-115x115.jpg "Sick babies = tired parents")
![The babies are now nearly one year old. They have grown from loose-fitting 00000-sized clothes to a respectable size 0. That journey, as much as anything, has been about food. […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/grub-photo-115x115.jpg "Grub")
![Since Steve went back to work two months ago, one of the biggest changes to our lives has been the busyness of our weekends. Like most families, weekends are when […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/winery-115x115.jpg "A fruitful Sunday afternoon")
![People are starting to ask me whether the babies’ personality differences are becoming more apparent. We don’t want to label and stereotype them for their future years, so we don’t […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/chuckles11-115x115.jpg "Chuckles")
![We planted an apricot tree and two plum trees four years ago: one satsuma plum and one blood plum. The plum trees were productive from the second year, and this […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/plums-115x115.jpg "Plumming")