Having two kids’ birthdays within a month before Christmas is always a bit of a wild time around here. Darby’s actual birthday was last Thursday and we started the day with presents and Coco Pops of course! Darby is always so incredibly grateful and thankful when he receives gifts and he (and all my kids)…
Continue reading →It’s official! Chance is a teenager. My goodness what a life this kid is living. He is funny and kind and looks after his siblings (mostly) and he loves his family so much. I said in last year’s birthday post that he would probably be taller than me by this birthday, but I think he’s…
Continue reading →I have honestly been meaning to blog about this for months and months. In fact, I started this blog post back in May this year, but for many reasons, just haven’t come back to it. At the start of this year, as had been for many years, dinner times were more often than not, a…
Continue reading →After about 13 years of broken, interrupted sleep, I am pleased to report that I am finally through to the other side!! That’s right folks. All four of my kids are sleeping through (as much as can be expected), and always all in their own beds!!! The sleep deprivation, obviously started with Chance. Aaaah I…
Continue reading →So Saturday morning began with Quinn and I taking a tram into town to pick up the hire car. Note for future self: do not hire a car that you have to drive out of a tiny car park in the middle of Melbourne, onto a street that has trams and you have to do…
Continue reading →Ah Melbourne, how I love to visit. Back in April, when tickets to PAX Aus were released, I snapped up six tickets for the Friday and planned a trip around that. day. I chatted to Gran about making it our family holiday, and when I found cheap flights and reasonable accommodation, Gran was all in,…
Continue reading →Pizzeys = fishing shacks leased by my Mum and some of her cousins, on the Burrum River near Maryborough. Back in May, over a few glasses of Prosecco, Marian and I decided that we should all, including Gran and Grumpy, go to Pizzeys together, during the September school holidays. Now because my brain was so…
Continue reading →You know when you have those weeks that just keep on giving you all those little sparks of joy? Yeah. I just had one. So many of us spend our life chasing happiness, thinking that we will arrive somewhere, some day, and just be happy. I know I used to, but I now understand that…
Continue reading →Yes I’m only just getting around to another blog post, weeks after my last one. I honestly have every intention of blogging more, but the motivation to actually sit down and start typing is lacking, and I just need to make myself do it more! My life from about March until July 30th (and beyond…
Continue reading →I kind of came down with a crash today after a lovely few days where I wasn’t outnumbered by children! Marty and his sister and her partner stayed with us for a few nights this week and honestly, it recharged me and kept me going during a very busy week, and I’m just so grateful…
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