We have three weeks left living in one of the most beautiful regions in Australia. We arrived with a seven month old baby and are now leaving with a five year old and a three year old. I really hope that we come back, again and again to introduce the region to our new bub,…
Heaven knows, if ever a mother is guilty of spoiling her children it is me. The problem is that sometimes our desire to give our children the very best does not help them become the best they can be. Never am I more aware of this than during the Christmas season. My own technique for countering…
All too often travellers use their travel tales as a weapon, to beat other travellers off the dais and have themself declared the most adventurous. I have neither the motivation nor the travel tale weaponry to do so. As a mother, and a pregnant one at that travelling with small children, adventure Is not so…
Truly, one of life’s most unpleasant tasks has to be packing up house. As we prepare for our relocation to Melbourne I am in the midst of organizing for the move. One of the reasons I find moving house so stressful is because it forces me to confront the ridiculous accumulation of possessions that has…
I know there are plenty of families that find the idea of traveling with young kids so daunting that they stay at home until their children are school aged. We are obviously not one of those families. There are only a handful of resorts in Australia though that directly focus on the needs of traveling…