![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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![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")
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![I like sleeping with one of the smaller humans. One sleeps in a big room with a fluffy rug and a tunnel in it on top of my pink chair, […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/IMG_4425-10-5-115x115.jpg "Adventures in suburbia")
Adventures in suburbia
Posted on November 29, 2020 | No CommentsI like sleeping with one of the smaller humans. One sleeps in a big room with a fluffy rug and a tunnel in it on top of my pink chair, […] -
![A quick look back as we head down the home straight of the year. Despite my weariness, I only took one day off during these recent school holidays, but we […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/IMG_4221.jpg-Mystery-Bay-beach-115x115.jpg "Star gazing")
Star gazing
Posted on October 25, 2020 | No CommentsA quick look back as we head down the home straight of the year. Despite my weariness, I only took one day off during these recent school holidays, but we […] -
![I’m not sure what prompted me to ask my friend if I could borrow her book, Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor, about taking control over your household budget, but I […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/IMG_4165-115x115.jpg "Freedom")
Freedom
Posted on September 27, 2020 | No CommentsI’m not sure what prompted me to ask my friend if I could borrow her book, Scott Pape’s The Barefoot Investor, about taking control over your household budget, but I […] -
![Lucky us, we managed to get away for a couple of days – weekdays! – to the snow. We stayed at a lovely freestanding ‘eco lodge’ just outside of Thredbo’, […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/snow-photo-IMG_3959-4-115x115.jpg "Skiing interlude")
Skiing interlude
Posted on August 30, 2020 | No CommentsLucky us, we managed to get away for a couple of days – weekdays! – to the snow. We stayed at a lovely freestanding ‘eco lodge’ just outside of Thredbo’, […] -
![Holidays. As Leigh Sales also mentioned that she was feeling in her latest podcast, I was really hanging out for them. We had planned our decompression in three chapters: a […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Nowra-IMG_3864-115x115.jpg "Night and Day")
Night and Day
Posted on July 26, 2020 | No CommentsHolidays. As Leigh Sales also mentioned that she was feeling in her latest podcast, I was really hanging out for them. We had planned our decompression in three chapters: a […] -
![The month of the girls’ tenth birthday is drawing to a close, and with it the weeks of its celebration, like an Indian wedding. Rhea was thoughtful about the milestone, […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Girls-birthday-10-PHOTO-2020-06-16-08-21-23-1-115x115.jpg "Ten")
Ten
Posted on June 28, 2020 | No CommentsThe month of the girls’ tenth birthday is drawing to a close, and with it the weeks of its celebration, like an Indian wedding. Rhea was thoughtful about the milestone, […] -
![It was an unusual Mothers’ Day this year. We usually go out for lunch with all of my siblings who are around and our parents and children. There was none […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/IMG_3477-2-115x115.jpg "May meanderings")
May meanderings
Posted on May 31, 2020 | No CommentsIt was an unusual Mothers’ Day this year. We usually go out for lunch with all of my siblings who are around and our parents and children. There was none […] -
![Despite new directions to work from home if possible, no concerts, plays, or theatre, no gatherings of more than two people and physical distancing, my new life isn’t actually too […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/IMG_5483660afternoon-tea-1-115x115.jpg "My new life")
My new life
Posted on April 26, 2020 | No CommentsDespite new directions to work from home if possible, no concerts, plays, or theatre, no gatherings of more than two people and physical distancing, my new life isn’t actually too […] -
![Last month, my plan was that this month, one of the girls, or both, would write about their school camp as Lara did last year. Instead, here we are. Maybe […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/IMG_2924-115x115.jpg "Pandemic")
Pandemic
Posted on March 29, 2020 | No CommentsLast month, my plan was that this month, one of the girls, or both, would write about their school camp as Lara did last year. Instead, here we are. Maybe […] -
![Today our family has transitioned from a family without a pet to one with one. Welcome to Lotus! Rhea: Today we drove to the Mittagong Golf Club and we met […]](https://www.paristoparenthood.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/IMG_7149-115x115.jpg "She’s arrived!")
She’s arrived!
Posted on February 23, 2020 | 1 CommentToday our family has transitioned from a family without a pet to one with one. Welcome to Lotus! Rhea: Today we drove to the Mittagong Golf Club and we met […]