![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-621x250.jpg "Connections")
![Lara and Rhea went to their first live concert at the age of thirteen, but they don’t play any instruments themselves anymore. We organized for both of them to learn […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/IMG_7936-476x250.jpg "Not playing")
![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")
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![This has been a month of travel – for work and pleasure. I invested in my leisure and booked a solo trip to Adelaide to see old friends and enjoy […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Adelaide-IMG_7411-1-1-115x115.jpg "Adelaide Writers’ festival")
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Posted on March 26, 2023 | No CommentsThis has been a month of travel – for work and pleasure. I invested in my leisure and booked a solo trip to Adelaide to see old friends and enjoy […] -
![We had weeks in Anglesea over the summer holidays once more, in Rhea’s own words from last year: ‘there were two dogs and two cats (Goose and Bear were the […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/IMG_1727-1-115x115.jpeg "Falling")
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Posted on January 29, 2023 | No CommentsWe had weeks in Anglesea over the summer holidays once more, in Rhea’s own words from last year: ‘there were two dogs and two cats (Goose and Bear were the […] -
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Posted on November 27, 2022 | No CommentsThis 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 […] -
![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")
30-year reunion #2
Posted on September 25, 2022 | No CommentsI 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: […] -
![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")
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Posted on August 28, 2022 | No CommentsA 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 […] -
![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")
Away and home
Posted on July 31, 2022 | No CommentsSteve 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 […] -
![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")
Party, Work, Rest, Party
Posted on June 26, 2022 | No CommentsTwelve 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 […] -
![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")
Emerging voices
Posted on May 29, 2022 | No CommentsLara 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 […] -
![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")
These precious days
Posted on April 24, 2022 | No CommentsWarning – 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 […] -
![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")
On the move
Posted on March 27, 2022 | No CommentsWe 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. […]