Day 6 after Harlow was born – someone needs a tissue…and possibly an eyebrow wax… Taking a newborn baby home is intense. They are very small and very loud and they look super-breakable. Sometimes they sleep, often they don't and then there is the question of baths, boobs, bottles and bums. It's a lot to […]
Little Mental
The Wall
School Holidays; Day Four. This was how long it took for me to hit the wall. Truthfully, they were beginning to give me the shits by lunchtime on Day One. But it wasn’t until Day Four that drinking from a bathtub of vodka with a straw began to seem like a good idea. I wanted […]
One Whole Week!
Guys! Hello! I have not written for a whole week. Not a single word. I didn't even make a list about possible things I might write in the future. Oh, wait, no, I lie. I finally put together a kind of "Best Of" page. It's up there on the navigation bar under Greatest Hits. It […]
The Little Cokehead
I have always prided myself on not being the junkie of the family. And then, I tried giving up Coke. Above is a shot of me at 31 weeks pregnant (with Harlow) taken by my gorgeous photographer friend, Steve Young. Gosh, he makes me look good. Even heavily pregnant and with paper g-string (fake) tan […]
New Year, Old Foe
I am not normally superstitious but 2013 has not been my friend thus far. Of course, it is only the 1st of January so chances are good that I can turn things around. This New Year’s Eve, I not only made it to midnight but I was there when the sun rose, too. Midnight was […]
That Kind of Mum
I am not as crazy as I look. I am much, much crazier. We had a little getaway this weekend gone. Bren was repainting the floorboards in the lounge room so I packed the kids up in the car and drove to the other side of town to stay with friends. We had so much […]

