![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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![I got a call from Duncan yesterday to say that his and Becky’s baby has been born! A very cuddly, peaceful-looking, good sized boy. The girls are overjoyed. When asked […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/IMG_6098-115x115.jpg "New beginnings")
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Posted on February 27, 2022 | No CommentsI got a call from Duncan yesterday to say that his and Becky’s baby has been born! A very cuddly, peaceful-looking, good sized boy. The girls are overjoyed. When asked […] -
![The end of a strange year of restrictions for a couple of months, busy at work, wet weather, a quick trip by plane to Melbourne for niece Ellie’s 21st, I […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/IMG_5752-1-Christmas2021-115x115.jpg "Sadness and joy")
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Posted on December 25, 2021 | No CommentsThe end of a strange year of restrictions for a couple of months, busy at work, wet weather, a quick trip by plane to Melbourne for niece Ellie’s 21st, I […] -
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Posted on November 28, 2021 | No CommentsDad turned seventy this week. As Lara said in the joke she found, what goes up but never down? Your age. We marked the occasion with a dinner at a […] -
![This weekend things have opened out, and we made the most of it. With our town’s vaccination rate at over 90% for two doses and 95% for one, we are […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/leaves-Oct2021-115x115.jpg "Further afield")
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Posted on October 31, 2021 | No CommentsThis weekend things have opened out, and we made the most of it. With our town’s vaccination rate at over 90% for two doses and 95% for one, we are […] -
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Family, food and flowers
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![We had one day at Thredbo of our planned five, and then had to return home because there had been a COVID case in our town so Thredbo didn’t want […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/front-garden-1-1-115x115.jpg "Quarantine diary")
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Posted on August 29, 2021 | No CommentsWe had one day at Thredbo of our planned five, and then had to return home because there had been a COVID case in our town so Thredbo didn’t want […] -
![Middle of winter, bleak and cold: the daytime temperature here has ranged from 6 to 11 degrees. Tokyo 2020 is a welcome distraction from the cold, the grind and the […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/gymnastics-IMG_5506-1-115x115.jpg "Tokyo 2020")
Tokyo 2020
Posted on July 25, 2021 | No CommentsMiddle of winter, bleak and cold: the daytime temperature here has ranged from 6 to 11 degrees. Tokyo 2020 is a welcome distraction from the cold, the grind and the […] -
![This year, the girls’ birthday coincided with the first day of their school camp. Rhea: When we went to camp, we went on a bus for three and a half […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/IMG_5374-2-115x115.jpg "Year Five Camp")
Year Five Camp
Posted on June 26, 2021 | No CommentsThis year, the girls’ birthday coincided with the first day of their school camp. Rhea: When we went to camp, we went on a bus for three and a half […] -
![Perhaps partly in response to the uncontrollable sneezing I’ve had for a couple of months, and partly because I got up to the next book in my pile, Marie Condo’s […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/afternoon-tea-115x115.jpg "Domestic work and play")
Domestic work and play
Posted on May 30, 2021 | No CommentsPerhaps partly in response to the uncontrollable sneezing I’ve had for a couple of months, and partly because I got up to the next book in my pile, Marie Condo’s […] -
![We had two good lunches and an impressive dinner this month. The first lunch was in regional Victoria: a restaurant called Brae, which featured fresh produce grown on site, seasonal […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/salad-braeIMG_5093-115x115.jpg "Two lunches and a dinner")
Two lunches and a dinner
Posted on April 25, 2021 | No CommentsWe had two good lunches and an impressive dinner this month. The first lunch was in regional Victoria: a restaurant called Brae, which featured fresh produce grown on site, seasonal […]