I have to say I’m enjoying my downtime from Arabella and her dramas. We had the final week of her schooling that was intensity plus and now there’s this wonderful breather before the exams begin. It’s a wonderful breather because she’s gone and is away on study camp so I feel like I’m having to […]
Cat Fight on the Cat Walk
The formal drama is not over. Yes, I was blessed with a few days reprieve, four to be exact, but yesterday it started again. Just to refresh your memory, Arabella’s formal was last Thursday but that boy, Flynn, who has invited her to his formal, is cranking up the drama. Flynn is ‘just a friend’ […]
Stir-Fried Chicken and…My Sanctuary
I have a sanctuary. That’s what I call my shower recess. It’s that one little place where you are perfectly entitled to be on your own and also, be undisturbed. But my children were born with a huge amount of ignorance towards understanding that their mother was not just having a shower to shampoo her […]
Mongolian Beef and…Pianos, Rice and Tambourines
My parents believed their children should be ‘good all-rounders’ so as well as enrolling us in swimming lessons, signing us up for Little Athletics, dropping us off at Art Classes, making us do ballet with Mrs Warwick, somehow they found the time and the economic means to give us piano lessons. We didn’t always have […]
Chinese Fried Rice and…It Always Rains at Easter
Easter is just a few days away and I’m reminded of a saying we have here in Sydney, ‘It always rains at Easter’ and this is despite Easter being on a different date every year. One thing you should try to avoid at Easter is camping. We made that mistake once, never twice! When we […]
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