I’ll make this one short and sweet. My baby, who towers over me, turned 15 at the end of November and we are just so incredibly proud of the man he is becoming. He is sensitive, funny, kind, helpful and such a great big brother to his three siblings. We feel so blessed to have…
Continue reading →Marty and I had our little getaway a bit early this year and it was wonderful as always. In previous years, we have headed away in June or July for a mini winter break but when we saw the line up for Summer Salt in Port Macquarie in April this year, it was hard to…
Continue reading →Graduating from primary school to high school is a bit more of a big deal than when I was a kid. For our “graduation”, if I remember correctly, we had our usual Friday morning assembly, and all the year 7s (which was the final year of primary, back in my day) got up on stage…
Continue reading →Three years ago today, Marty and I met on the corner of Fourth Ave and Brighton Rd at Sandgate, and made our nervous way to Mr Henderson. I say nervous, but I myself was quite terrified. After putting myself “out there” the previous year and getting spectacularly roasted, I was very wary and, okay, skeptical,…
Continue reading →Some of you may get the slightly altered version of this reference from Friday Night Lights (you know who you are!) My personal take on it involves a (mostly) clear dining room table that is honestly bringing me SO much joy, after weeks of it being overrun. As per usual, I forgot to take a…
Continue reading →February 29 has rolled around once more. The last leap year bonus day in 2020 was when I hit publish on my final blog post on my old blog, My Brilliant Foot. My goodness how much has changed since that weekend away! The bonus day before that in 2016 was the final day of my…
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…
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 →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…
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