Thank god for phones with cameras. I love my SLR but sometimes it's all too much trouble to get it out. And unless I hang around holding it, it's not particularly convenient for catching a random moment. Yes, it takes much better photos but the reality is that without my phone camera, I might not […]
This blog is worse than a real job because I am both the boss and the employee. As a boss I am a relentless jerk and as an employee, a lazy fool. This culminates in the lazy fool generating about 10% of the blog posts the relentless jerk demands. Relentless Jerk is forever calling Lazy […]
6, 4, 2. 16, 14, 12. In ten years’ time, EVERYTHING will be different, if only as it relates to the numbers above. Today my children are very much that; children. Babies really. Ten years will completely alter this. It will steal away with their childhood and pitch them headfirst into their teens. I […]
Harlow's first bath…and the only one we can promise we were 100% focused on her during… For the first year of his life, the trickle of constantly moving water was the soundtrack of baby Luca’s bath time. Each night, it was the same routine. Bren would put Luca in the bath and over the next […]
Photo by Angie Baxter I suppose you could say I spent my youth misspending it. I spent every dollar I earned. Ate it, drank it, wore it, smoked it. Every last dollar. I have nothing physical to show for those years bar a handful of tattoos. I wanted to be a serious actor. […]
Note the absence of children… I never understood my friends with school kids when they said they looked forward to the end of term break. I thought the default setting for parents was School Holidays = Hell. I thought we were all meant to hold one another at the prospect of all that quality time. But […]
Inspired by Mummalove who was inspired by Meet Me At Mikes, a list to capture this moment in my life…. Making: sight word flash cards for Luca – crafty + excellent parenting = win Cooking: without inspiration – am hoping spring will change that Drinking: Coke – because I have no self-control Reading: 'Martin […]
I have had an epiphany. When there are five bodies in the house, the washing machine needs to be running every day. Five bodies just insist on wearing ALL THE CLOTHES and it has finally dawned on me that one wash per person per week is not even close to being enough. Yes, I […]
