I’ve been sick this week. Oh, nothing major, but there’s a ‘low-grade virus’ doing the rounds and it just makes a person feel depleted. It’s the kind of bug that takes a mum about two days to realise she even has because we are used to feeling depleted. We are used to life being a…
In the quiet
I’ve always had a strong need for quiet. I am not one of those people who can happily read or work while music plays or kids bellow. My focus shifts from the task at hand to the music to the bellow to the task at hand to the music… I am what teachers called ‘easily distracted’. Noise smuggles away my…
Periscope parenting
I’ve decided I’m tired of second-guessing my parenting all the time. Bone weary. I think because I write about parenting, I edit parenting, I live parenting, I’m SUBMERGED in parenting that sometimes my periscope just isn’t working. I shouldn’t need a periscope at all; I’ve simply got to come up to the surface. Fact is,…
Days like today
Every now and then on a Wednesday, I venture into the city to the office. Evolve (parent company of Mumtastic) is based in a warehouse conversion in Surry Hills. It sounds way cooler than it actually is, but it’s a lovely, light space and the people are awesome. Whenever I plan to go in, it…
Why I never fight with my husband
Last week, the hubs and I turned 20. Well, we met 20 years ago and the 21 June has always been the date that’s counted for us. Our wedding anniversary on 3 March (14 years this year), is just an excuse for a nice dinner out. So, 20 years, huh? That’s a long time in…
Bad things happen when good people do nothing
I get that we feel inadequate. I get that we don’t know how to help. I get that we feel that someone else is better qualified. I get that we’re worried about our own safety. I get that we feel like it’s none of our business. I get that we have to put our children first….
1966 called and it wants its school back
Last night I banged out a post that has been flickering around my consciousness for YEARS. I always wanted to write it, I just didn’t quite know where to start. I wanted to get it right. I wanted to encompass everything it is to be a woman today and struggling with the crazy concept of ‘having…
“Having it all” actually feels pretty sh!t
The past few weeks I’ve been slammed at work, slammed at home and slammed in general. It reminds me that I do too much, that life is all rush, rush, rush. Busy, I crave; rushed, I loathe. Living a hurried life is not the dream. Last year I had a major health scare that landed me…
How to make homework ‘fun’
Homework. I hate it. I’ve always hated it but I hate it more as a mum than I ever hated it as a child. It’s such an… inconvenience. Earlier this year I mentioned to Max’s teacher (the amazing Mrs B) that I wasn’t fond of homework and she seemed to be under the false impression…
When things get broken
Never, ever become a smug parent. The day after I wrote about winning at parenting (I mean, it was the perfect day, I even said to Bart, “Don’t bother with the 8th of May, today was mother’s day for me”), Cappers broke her fingers. Just when you thought you were out, they pull you back in. I…
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