Kate and I have known each other since we were 3 years old. We went to kindy together, our mums are good friends, and so the friendship began. We have been at each other’s milestone birthdays for decades. I was at the birth of her first son, my Godson. She dropped everything when Frith died…
Continue reading →I know I’ve been talking a lot about grief and sadness and fighting back in these early posts of my new blog. I really hadn’t intended for this to be the mood, but that’s the thing about writing a blog about day to day life – you never know what the content is going to…
Continue reading →We headed out from Redcliffe Jetty on Thursday last week for a spot of whale watching. Even though Darby complained he was hungry after being on the boat for five minutes (and was apparently hungry for the next 5 hours), and I forgot the nappy bag for Julius so had no pull ups or spare…
Continue reading →Sometimes you find yourself in a place you never saw coming. It feels uncomfortable, and you don’t feel like you belong. This wasn’t meant to happen to you. You don’t know how you got here and you don’t want to hang around. But then you sit in the stillness and let the feelings wash over…
Continue reading →There are wounds we carry around with us that we think have fully healed, but a bump or graze out of left field can open them up again when we least expect it. We sit there, a little dazed and confused, looking at the gaping wound, picking at it, almost curiously. Why are you still…
Continue reading →Celebrating this woman. We have been up at Mount Glorious this weekend, eating amazing food, drinking yummy wine, and laughing a LOT, celebrating Sian’s birthday. Did I mention we are all child-free? 😀 Happy birthday to you my friend. We have known each other over a quarter of a century (😳😍) and there are still…
Continue reading →As you may have read in the About Renae section of this blog, I am a recent convert to Zumba. A very dear school mum friend of mine got me into it, and I’m not going to lie, I’m so hooked. There are four classes a week on offer and I have gotten to at…
Continue reading →I think as adults we go through phases of what we need to hear/what we want to hear depending on what we are going through at the time. From friends, partners, loved ones, parents. It changes depending on where we are at with life and with ourselves. Sometimes we need to hear I love you;…
Continue reading →When I look at my four kids, I often wonder and marvel at who they are turning in to. The quirks that I see today, will they be there in a decade? Ten years. Wow. They will all be teenagers. Can I even imagine having four teenagers under one roof? The food they will eat;…
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