Parenthood Archive

  • Winter holidays. Boy, was I due for them! I’d been flat out at work – no time for a lunch break in three weeks, then the girls developed successive viruses […]

    Winter holidays. Yay!*

    Winter holidays. Boy, was I due for them! I’d been flat out at work – no time for a lunch break in three weeks, then the girls developed successive viruses […]

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  •  It has started. Birthday party invitations. Birthday party weekends. The first one was about a month ago. Another little blond haired, blue eyed girl from the girls’ preschool, Kirsten, was […]

    Four birthdays

     It has started. Birthday party invitations. Birthday party weekends. The first one was about a month ago. Another little blond haired, blue eyed girl from the girls’ preschool, Kirsten, was […]

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  • Monday Morning: Steve: ‘OK darlings, would you like to get dressed now? It’s time to get ready for preschool.’ Lara: ‘No! Don’t want to get dressed! I’m eating my bweakfast.’ […]

    A few whiles ago

    Monday Morning: Steve: ‘OK darlings, would you like to get dressed now? It’s time to get ready for preschool.’ Lara: ‘No! Don’t want to get dressed! I’m eating my bweakfast.’ […]

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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 […]

    Easter interlude

    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 […]

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  • 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 […]

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    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 […]

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  • 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, […]

    Big

    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, […]

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  • ‘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 […]

    Frolicking

    ‘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 […]

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  • 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 […]

    Titty! Titty!

    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 […]

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  • 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 […]

    Tea and cake at 40

    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 […]

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  • 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 […]

    A tent, an esky and a hammock

    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 […]

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