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![I took Rhea, Lara and two of their friends to a Billie Eilish concert a few weeks ago. We all reflected on the experience. Isolde: What was surprising about […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Billie-Eilish-IMG_9668-115x115.jpg "Isolde and the Four")
Isolde and the Four
Posted on March 30, 2025 | No CommentsI took Rhea, Lara and two of their friends to a Billie Eilish concert a few weeks ago. We all reflected on the experience. Isolde: What was surprising about […] -
![It’s been a painful couple of months physically, culminating in a day that saw me working from home last Monday. I started off working from bed at 9am and by […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/IMG_9660-115x115.jpg "Bottom")
Bottom
Posted on February 23, 2025 | No CommentsIt’s been a painful couple of months physically, culminating in a day that saw me working from home last Monday. I started off working from bed at 9am and by […] -
![Back home after a month away. It was a month of connecting with families – Steve’s at the family holiday house, and mine when Duncan, Becky and their little boys […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/IMG_9448-3-beach-115x115.jpg "Connections")
Connections
Posted on January 19, 2025 | No CommentsBack home after a month away. It was a month of connecting with families – Steve’s at the family holiday house, and mine when Duncan, Becky and their little boys […] -
![Steve’s 60th was months in the making: his family and I took about 50 text messages to find a weekend that everyone was able to travel up and surprise him; […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/PHOTO-2024-09-01-21-41-07-115x115.jpg "Sixty")
Sixty
Posted on September 28, 2024 | No CommentsSteve’s 60th was months in the making: his family and I took about 50 text messages to find a weekend that everyone was able to travel up and surprise him; […] -
![Before I start a six-month secondment, I’ve had a break from work for three-and-a-half weeks. I started with four days in Noosa enjoying the beach, restaurants, company of my parents, […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/IMG_9119-3-115x115.jpg "Winterlude")
Winterlude
Posted on August 24, 2024 | No CommentsBefore I start a six-month secondment, I’ve had a break from work for three-and-a-half weeks. I started with four days in Noosa enjoying the beach, restaurants, company of my parents, […] -
![These school holidays, towards the end of our two-week stay with Steve’s mum in Melbourne, we had a night with Jessie at her acre block just outside Warragul. We hadn’t […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/IMG_8946-1-115x115.jpg "Family and community")
Family and community
Posted on July 28, 2024 | No CommentsThese school holidays, towards the end of our two-week stay with Steve’s mum in Melbourne, we had a night with Jessie at her acre block just outside Warragul. We hadn’t […] -
![Just two weeks after having been there for our holiday, we drove to Melbourne for the weekend for Jarrah (my first cousin once removed) and his fiancé’ Chelsea’s engagement party/ […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IMG_8809-2-115x115.jpg "Engaged")
Engaged
Posted on May 26, 2024 | No CommentsJust two weeks after having been there for our holiday, we drove to Melbourne for the weekend for Jarrah (my first cousin once removed) and his fiancé’ Chelsea’s engagement party/ […] -
![After our family pilgrimage to dad’s hometown of Ballarat in 2019, we all first planned to visit mum’s childhood hometown of Sea Lake back in 2020, and then 2021 and […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/IMG_8650-McLennan-sign-115x115.jpg "Back to Sea Lake")
Back to Sea Lake
Posted on April 28, 2024 | No CommentsAfter our family pilgrimage to dad’s hometown of Ballarat in 2019, we all first planned to visit mum’s childhood hometown of Sea Lake back in 2020, and then 2021 and […] -
![It started like a normal day: get up, clomp downstairs, rub cat’s tummy, feed cat, eat breakfast, walk down street to bus with girls, drive to work. As part of […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/beads-IMG_8300-115x115.jpg "Folklore")
Folklore
Posted on February 25, 2024 | No CommentsIt started like a normal day: get up, clomp downstairs, rub cat’s tummy, feed cat, eat breakfast, walk down street to bus with girls, drive to work. As part of […] -
![After a week of silence and withdrawal, my heart heavy, sadness for our country was punctuated by a tiny sliver of distraction: news that Paul McCartney is in Australia, that […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/IMG_7960-115x115.jpg "Imagine")
Imagine
Posted on October 29, 2023 | No CommentsAfter a week of silence and withdrawal, my heart heavy, sadness for our country was punctuated by a tiny sliver of distraction: news that Paul McCartney is in Australia, that […]