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![Autumn, and a week off between Easter and Anzac Day. Back to Steve’s family’s holiday house via a day-long drive, with busy activities with all the cousins. After the adults […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/easter-eggs.jpg "Easter interlude")
Easter interlude
Posted on April 27, 2014 | No CommentsAutumn, and a week off between Easter and Anzac Day. Back to Steve’s family’s holiday house via a day-long drive, with busy activities with all the cousins. After the adults […] -
![I’ve been reading a few books recently. The first by Susan Cain, Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking is about how the cult of […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/3-books-115x115.jpg "XX")
XX
Posted on March 30, 2014 | No CommentsI’ve been reading a few books recently. The first by Susan Cain, Quiet: The power of introverts in a world that can’t stop talking is about how the cult of […] -
![February, and our land is bleached, torched, scorched. Heatwaves longer and hotter than last year fill our days and nights. Our plans revolve around escaping the heat into air-conditioned buildings, […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/school-swings-115x115.jpg "Big")
Big
Posted on February 23, 2014 | No CommentsFebruary, and our land is bleached, torched, scorched. Heatwaves longer and hotter than last year fill our days and nights. Our plans revolve around escaping the heat into air-conditioned buildings, […] -
![‘Would you kids shut up! We’re trying to sleep!’ I was about 10 years old and my brother and sister and I had arrived earlier that day at my uncle’s […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/girls-watching-seal-115x115.jpg "Frolicking")
Frolicking
Posted on January 26, 2014 | No Comments‘Would you kids shut up! We’re trying to sleep!’ I was about 10 years old and my brother and sister and I had arrived earlier that day at my uncle’s […] -
![Rhea and Lara have ticked off some milestones this year: they were weaned at 32 months; they are completely toilet trained (just the odd accident during the day); they felt […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/car2-115x115.jpg "Titty! Titty!")
Titty! Titty!
Posted on December 28, 2013 | No CommentsRhea and Lara have ticked off some milestones this year: they were weaned at 32 months; they are completely toilet trained (just the odd accident during the day); they felt […] -
![Twenty years ago, in February 1993, my grandmother made some apple jelly. I found it at the back of our pantry when I was cleaning it the other day, unambiguously […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/cakes-115x115.jpg "Tea and cake at 40")
Tea and cake at 40
Posted on November 24, 2013 | No CommentsTwenty years ago, in February 1993, my grandmother made some apple jelly. I found it at the back of our pantry when I was cleaning it the other day, unambiguously […] -
![Following a ten day survival experience that was compulsory in Year 9, my friends and I became keen hikers and I continued this hobby during my university years. Out of […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/camping-115x115.jpg "A tent, an esky and a hammock")
A tent, an esky and a hammock
Posted on October 27, 2013 | No CommentsFollowing a ten day survival experience that was compulsory in Year 9, my friends and I became keen hikers and I continued this hobby during my university years. Out of […] -
![The airport has been modernised and expanded and now you can’t see any airplanes from the big windows unless you go through Security. Lara had been sick that morning so […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/3dancers-115x115.jpg "Dancing Home")
Dancing Home
Posted on September 29, 2013 | No CommentsThe airport has been modernised and expanded and now you can’t see any airplanes from the big windows unless you go through Security. Lara had been sick that morning so […] -
![I usually think of myself as a resilient person. Sometimes though, I think resilience is about admitting defeat and asking for help. This is where I am at at the […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/nature-115x115.jpg "Dropping out")
Dropping out
Posted on August 29, 2013 | No CommentsI usually think of myself as a resilient person. Sometimes though, I think resilience is about admitting defeat and asking for help. This is where I am at at the […]