If talk of spew makes you want to join in, you’d best click away now… We’ve been living in the land of vomit for the past 24 hours and in that time I have learnt a few things… 1) You can not catch a five year-old’s vomit in your cupped hands no matter how much […]
Parenting and Family.
Being a parent is wonderful, but sometimes it’s also just plain hard!
These parenting tips and ideas can help you find ways to make life with kids a little easier, and the real life stories from parents just like you might make you feel a little less alone.
Ten Ways to Stay Cool with Small Children.
It’s freakishly hot in our part of the world at the moment, and set to get even hotter before the week is out. We don’t have air-conditioning or a swimming pool (I wish on both accounts) so four 40 degree days (that’s about 104 Fahrenheit) in a row isn’t going to be much fun with […]
Crafty Holiday Goodness!
Today officially marks the end of the the Kinder holidays for the Twinadoes. They are back at kinder this afternoon, epi pens and allergy plans in hand, all going well, hopefully I’ve had a bit of a love-hate relationship with having the girls home full time again, after only just getting everyone used to the […]
The Best Lullabies to Sing to Your Kids
I sang the same lullaby to my twins almost every night when they were babies – ‘Baby Mine’ the song from the Dumbo Movie. I still love that lullaby, but when my middle child was born and he took forever to get to sleep, I found myself singing it over, and over, and over, until […]
Is he a good baby??
Muski is 8 weeks old now. Eight weeks! Can’t really believe it has been that long… seems like only yesterday that he was born. It just doesn’t seem that long ago that we came home from hospital. Heck, I am still busy patting myself on the back for birthing him! In a lot of ways […]
My Super Power – A story about Breastfeeding Twins
It’s World Breastfeeding week, and while I know breastfeeding is not an option, or a choice that is right for everyone, I wanted to share a little about my journey breastfeeding twins. My girls self -weaned about 3 months ago now. It was a happy mutual decision to stop feeding that sort of just slowly […]
Life is precious
This is short message to let those of you who have been following our story know that my father-in-law passed away this morning. After beating the rejection issues with the heart transplant he just couldn’t beat the major lung infections. We were able to say goodbye this morning before turning off the machines and letting […]
Broken Hearts
This the first blog post I ever wrote. It was originally published over on blogger, and later transferred here when I bought my domain name and started picklebums. This is a personal post that probably isn’t of much interest to my current readers. There used to be lots of posts like this one, rambling on […]
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