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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.
![This week I attended my nephew Oli’s Year 12 graduation and met my nine-month old nephew Felix. Felix is a happy, gorgeous baby, and has been passed around his extended […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/IMG_6978-Oli-and-Felix-1-115x115.jpg "Nephews")
![I hadn’t intended to initially due to the COVID risk; feeling uncomfortable with the nightclub venue; and the same reason I stayed away from the 10th and 20th year reunions: […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Screenshot-2022-09-25-180439-115x115.png "30-year reunion #2")
![A few weeks ago, I finished pruning the fruit trees out the back. I’m not sure if winter is the right time to prune, when the thin branches are growing […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/flowers-IMG_6608-115x115.jpg "Blossoming")
![Steve and I worked in Melbourne while the girls flaked out in the house during the first week of the school holidays. Steve took them out to an indoor play […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Black-Rock-July-2022-115x115.jpg "Away and home")
![Twelve years ago since that equally cold, grey day when the girls were born, it doesn’t seem like that long. The great excitement as usual of opening large packages, so […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/girls12-115x115.jpg "Party, Work, Rest, Party")
![Lara and Rhea are preparing for a Rostrum speech that they will deliver next week – Rhea on the subject of Teamwork and Lara on Being Organised. Lara is practicing […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/IMG_6366-Jervis-Bay-115x115.jpg "Emerging voices")
![Warning – this contains discussion of suicide. ‘These precious days’ is the name of a book of short stories that I decadently splashed out on from a lovely bookshop by […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/IMG_6279-1-115x115.jpg "These precious days")
![We have been sorting and packing with increasing intensity over recent weeks, leading up to spending nearly all of the productive parts of the days sorting and packing this weekend. […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IMG_6161-115x115.jpg "On the move")
![I got a call from Duncan yesterday to say that his and Becky’s baby has been born! A very cuddly, peaceful-looking, good sized boy. The girls are overjoyed. When asked […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IMG_6098-115x115.jpg "New beginnings")
![The end of a strange year of restrictions for a couple of months, busy at work, wet weather, a quick trip by plane to Melbourne for niece Ellie’s 21st, I […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG_5752-1-Christmas2021-115x115.jpg "Sadness and joy")