Win a Cakes Alive! Castle Cake from Ferguson Plarre valued at $250

Win a Cakes Alive! Castle Cake from Ferguson Plarre valued at $250
So I’m really uptight about carseats for kids. In particular, I am uptight about them being installed properly. Naturally, I’m worried about safety and also, about Bren getting it right. Poor Bren. He is actually a very competent human being, but his competency is no match for my uptightness. And then there was the […]
My first thought about breastfeeding was this: I don’t like having my nipples touched therefore I probably won’t like breastfeeding. It wasn’t that I thought breastfeeding would be weirdly sexual, it was just that I believed that the sensation, sexual or otherwise, would be unpleasant for me. That was back in 2007 when […]
Coffee. It could be argued it makes the world go round. Me? I don’t drink it. I know, I know, what am I even talking about? Motherhood without coffee is reckless and irresponsible. But if you’ve been reading here long enough, you’ll know I have my own dark liquid vice that gets me through the […]
My mum and I are close. Through an incredibly tumultuous few years through my teens – partly caused by external factors and partly caused by me being a typical teenaged jerk – we came through the other end as friends. Mum is my dear friend. She is all kinds of nutty but I appreciate […]
Phillip Island means two things to me: adorable penguins and the Hemsworth brothers. The area is famous for both – some would argue one less so than the other but then, those people obviously don’t appreciate Thor without a shirt on. Personally, seeing both the penguins AND the Hemsworths in their natural habitat is on […]
It's not that I don't love a good Mother's Day stall gift. Because who can say no to a vial of Fairy Wishing Dust (glitter) and a pair of earrings that cost $3 and made my ears so infected I considered having them surgically removed? Of course, I'm joking about the earrings! I never actually […]
I took a stroll down memory lane thinking back to when the fam and I headed to Paul Sadler Swimland in Essendon for some lessons with the swimming experts. Harlow was so little! And so chubby! We had so much fun and it reminded me of how important swimming lessons are but […]