I’ve written before about the remarkable resilience of my son. He’s the kid who always gives things a go and I am incredibly proud of his grit and willingness to put himself out there. It is one thing to go in the race when you are the kid who has a chance of coming first and quite…
Weekend Rewind | “Happy” birthday to meeeee
I had a bit of an ‘Alexander’ birthday yesterday. It wasn’t exactly a horrible, terrible, no-good, very-bad day, but it came close. My birthday was the day I discovered I am newly allergic to penicillin by breaking out into a whole-body rash and needing steroids to stop me moving into anaphyaxis. Good times. My birthday…
The very cross country
Our school held its annual K-2 cross country yesterday. It’s a Big Day Out for all the kids – and their mums. I learned one of my biggest-ever parenting lessons at my first school cross country. Yesterday saw a mass-meltdown by the Kinder girls. There were at least 15 girls in tears because they didn’t win…
Removing the hurdle
Every now and then the responsibility of being a parent king-hits me right between the eyes. More than the usual ‘am I doing this right?’ angst. More than the permanent worry that one of my children might turn out to be ‘that kid’.* More even than the constant quest to get the right kind of…