About six months ago, my good friend Cal, who lives with her husband Nathan and three kids in Geelong, messaged me saying Nathan would be at a conference in Brisbane in the September school holidays and they were thinking about coming up to stay as well. Long story short, I told Cal they should stay…
Continue reading →School holidays have been and gone (how??) and we had a wonderful fortnight doing ALL THE THINGS! Let’s get into it! We spent four days in the first week up at our beloved fishing shacks on the Burrum River. The weather was spot on and the fish were biting. What more could we ask for!?…
Continue reading →Friday was our day on the Great Barrier Reef and it was absolutely magic. Grumpy had done some research and we decided on Seastar Cruises as it was a smaller group (fewer than 40) and took us to two locations for snorkeling. The weather was perfect which was such a bonus, as it had been…
Continue reading →This feels like such a big post to write. I may do a two-parter. Let’s see how we go. About a year ago, Gran proposed that we go on a family holiday up to Cairns in August to celebrate Mum and Dad’s 50th wedding anniversary. Their treat. The whole family would be invited and the…
Continue reading →Yes I’m using the name of my blog as the title of this very long overdue (and long!) post. The meaning will come out as you read. It’s been nearly three months since I last wrote, so there is a LOT to catch up on. Here are the highlights! We celebrated Grumpy’s 74th birthdayNothing fancy,…
Continue reading →If you have ever been in a flow state, you know what I’m talking about. The concept of ‘flow’ was first proposed by psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. He described flow as an optimal state of consciousness, a sweet spot where we’re so absorbed in an activity that everything else seems to fade into the background. When…
Continue reading →You guys, the last month has been madness. And I have four blog posts running around my head right now – one to cover our annual May weekend away with the school mums, one to tell you about Mother’s Day, one for Julius’ birthday, and one about peri-menopause!! Honestly I want to write all the…
Continue reading →Oh wow what a weekend it’s been ! I’m happily sitting on the couch with my laptop, watching the Swans take on the Suns, with a steady rain falling outside, and wanted to document all the things. Let’s get straight into it! Uncle Khicken and Aunty Kate were up for the weekend for a family…
Continue reading →This blog post is a couple of weeks late as my laptop has been out of action but here we are! 11!! For her birthday this year, Quinn decided to go super low-key which was fine by me! The weekend before her birthday, she wanted to have her cousin Aria here for a sleepover then…
Continue reading →Or as I like to call it, 40+gst! I love birthdays, and I love all the effort the kids and my parents and Marty put in to making my day extra special this year. I like to include the Wednesday night in my unofficial birthday celebrations, with my regular catch up dinner with these fine…
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