![I have been enjoying a couple of new podcasts recently. The first is called Read This, with interviews of writers, many of them Australian. The second is Wiser than Me […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/IMG_9245-640x250.jpg "Listening to them")
![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-2024-09-01-21-41-07-640x250.jpg "Sixty")
![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_9119-3-476x250.jpg "Winterlude")
![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_8946-1-455x250.jpg "Family and community")
![In the depths of winter, the girls had their individual sleepover birthday parties, sandwiched by the family afternoon tea. The organizing and catering were less demanding for me given […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/rocks-Lara-E-K-IMG_8902-469x250.jpg "Covering some ground")
![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.jpg "Engaged")
![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-640x250.jpg "Back to Sea Lake")
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![– ‘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")
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Posted on September 25, 2011 | No Comments– ‘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 […] -
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Leaps and bounds
Posted on August 28, 2011 | No CommentsWhen 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 […] -
![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")
Up late: update
Posted on July 31, 2011 | No CommentsWe 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 […] -
![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")
Sick babies = tired parents
Posted on June 26, 2011 | No CommentsLara 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 […] -
![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")
Grub
Posted on May 29, 2011 | No CommentsThe 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. […] -
![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")
A fruitful Sunday afternoon
Posted on April 24, 2011 | No CommentsSince 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 […] -
![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")
Chuckles
Posted on March 27, 2011 | 1 CommentPeople 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 […] -
![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")
Plumming
Posted on February 27, 2011 | No CommentsWe 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 […] -
![While on holidays interstate this summer, we visited one of the markets and did some shopping while pushing the babies in their pram. As usual there were comments from passers-by. […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/black-box-115x115.jpg "Horror night")
Horror night
Posted on February 20, 2011 | No CommentsWhile on holidays interstate this summer, we visited one of the markets and did some shopping while pushing the babies in their pram. As usual there were comments from passers-by. […] -
![Alice is coming to meet the babies and to stay with us for almost a week. She has a very different background to me, with none of my advantages. Her […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/P1050646-115x115.jpg "My friend Alice")
My friend Alice
Posted on February 13, 2011 | No CommentsAlice is coming to meet the babies and to stay with us for almost a week. She has a very different background to me, with none of my advantages. Her […]