PERSONAL AND FAMILY

How Do You Know When You’re Done Having Babies?

I seem to recall Bren and I tossed around the idea of four kids in the early stages of our relationship when we had all the love for a big family and none of the reality. We had both grown up with just one sibling and both of us craved the slightly more chaotic but what we perceived to be closer dynamic of a bigger family. In the end, we decided on three kids as being just enough chaos but without having to buy a van for transport.

How My Home Has Changed Since Having Kids: a tale of Pokemon cards and despair

The post-kids house is a very different beast to the pre-kids house. Two people’s stuff has multiplied to five people’s stuff and who knew preschoolers could accumulate SO MUCH STUFF.

Where Did I Come From? and other adoption woes

Motherhood was the answer to many questions inside my heart but never moreso than this one…

Working Man

Working Man

People will tell you it’s too late to change. People will tell you work is work, you’re not meant to love it. But governments want us to work into our seventies – I say you HAVE to love your job (or at least like it). Life is too damned short to be desperately unhappy every day. But it’s plenty long enough to change your mind, reinvent yourself and realise dreams.

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Motherhood Lately

Motherhood Lately

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 […]

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I’m Angie!  I mum. I write. I wife. My husband would say this is the correct order.  He’s so neeeedy. I live with my family in Melbourne, Australia, where I complain about the weather for 90% of the year – but I can’t imagine living anywhere else. Except maybe in Lake Como, waving to my neighbours George and Amal each morning.

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