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Ten Things No One Ever Tells You About Pregnancy and Birth

Posted on June 28, 2018 21 Comments

"Things can get really weird when you are pregnant"

I’ve been pregnant five times, given birth three times and I have four kids. (Can you work out how that is possible?) I’ve had ‘morning sickness’ that lasted the entire pregnancy, and I’ve felt amazing and loved being pregnant. I’ve had a c-section and two VBACS. I’ve given birth to very premature babies, been 2+ […]

20 Kid-friendly Brinner Ideas.

Posted on August 15, 2016

Why 'Brinner' is awesome and 20 kid-friendly 'breakfast for dinner' ideas to try

When you have breakfast for dinner it’s called ‘brinner’, and it’s awesome. It’s awesome because kids love the novelty of having food that would usually be considered breakfast, at dinner time. It’s awesome because you often have a bit more time to prepare dinner, so you can try out all those fancy recipes that you […]

Almost Five

Posted on June 19, 2015

Almost Five...

He arrived at the side of my bed at about 6:15 this morning. “Mum” he said in a ‘whisper’ so loud the cows out in the paddock must have heard him. “Muuuum!” “What?” I mumbled somewhat annoyed at having to make conversation before sunrise. “Mum… am I five yet?” “No buddy” “but… but I…” I […]

Six Things About Parenting That Make Me Laugh.

Posted on June 4, 2015

6 Things About Parenting that Make me Laigh - It can be easy to miss the humour of parenting. Sometimes it gets lots under the piles of laundry, and the notes from school, but you need to dig out from under the hard stuff, but it's worth it.

Parenting is hard. It will stretch you to your limits and then some. It is messy, and exhausting, and heartbreaking. It is also beautiful, and loving, and hard… really really hard. Parenting can make you yell, and scream, and cry, but it can also makes you laugh. Among all the tears and exhaustion, all the […]

The Little Boy and the Wayward Scisscors

Posted on May 15, 2015

Once there was a little boy and a wayward pair of scissors...

Once, not so long ago, there was a little boy. The little boy spent a lovely afternoon building with blocks, mucking around with the peg board geoboard, and cutting and gluing, but something had gone wrong. When it came time to pick up his brother and sisters from school, the little boy’s Mum discovered that […]

12 Simple Collage Ideas

Posted on November 25, 2014

12 Simple Collage ideas to get you gluing and sticking with your kids!

Gluing, cutting and pasting, sticking…whatever you call it, collage is one of the easiest, open-ended, art activities you can offer your child. All you need is some glue (here’s an easy recipe to make glue at home) something to stick on to (cut up cereal boxes work great) and something to stick (here’s a list […]

Our Weekend at Big4 Bellarine Vlog!

Posted on June 27, 2012

My big boy turned five on Monday. And my small boy turned two on Tuesday. To celebrate such momentous occasions we went away for a birthday bonanza, totally spectacular, jump on the jumping pillow till you freeze weekend, thanks to Big4 Bellarine! Here’s a quick snippet of what we got up to… Thanks so much […]

Two is

Posted on June 22, 2012

Two is...

The words tumble out of his mouth in a jumble of mixed up sounds and syllables. And yet he seems to assume that I understand every word. When I ask him to repeat himself he gives me an exasperated look and repeats the same gobbledegook first a little slower, and then faster when I still […]

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