Meeting your new This website focuses on what I do with my own kids. Time for something different, a perspective on an outing with my Mum Rosie. Sometimes even as adults our mothers ask us to go on outings that we are a bit dubious about. My mum Rosie had requested I take…
To the travel makers, I see you. I know how many hours you spend poring over booking sites, travel blogs, and Facebook groups with the aim being to plan the perfect family getaway. I know how you balance the budgets, how you scrimp and save here and there in the everyday so you can make…
Dear Easter Bunny, I’m writing this letter as an appeal for mercy that you please, pretty please don’t visit our house this year. I know your tactics all too well. You deposit your shiny aluminium wrapped treats around our garden and home each Easter. I also know myself, and in particular my supreme weakness for…
I can’t even. There is a girl my daughter’s age dressed head to toe in leather. I have been invited to an event, dashed madly across town to attend after work, arrived sweaty and dishevelled, slapped on some makeup in the car in an attempt to look event ready and arrived to find a…
Today’s giveaway is personal. I’ve run many giveaways for other companies – this giveaway is direct from me – in honour of launching my new business. The United State’s number one skincare range – Rodan and Fields just launched in Australia. I have heard many, many positive things from my United States medical colleagues about…
I am raising three city kids. We live in the suburbs and our weeks are full of school and work and after-school activities. My kids love arcades, and theme parks and I am constantly battling screen time. What I don’t want is to raise three exclusively city kids. There is mounting evidence for the health…
I know working mums are the norm. Somehow though we’ve ended up at a school with perhaps more than the average number of stay at home mums. As a result, I do feel like a fish out of water at the school gates. My son is an expert at laying on the guilt…
I have a beautiful friend from my university days. She is the epitome of a Fun Mum. When we arrive at her house for playdates the driveway is decorated in chalk drawings and activities beyond the scope of a young child – I can see she has been down on her hands and knees…
I admit it – I have some shoe envy – I love the styling of the Bobux Shoe range (so wish they came in adult sizes). Since they released the Kid Plus Range for children aged 5-8 my boys are wearing them daily. These shoes are tough. I have rough and tumble boys…
Dear N, I know you’ve been working hard at school all term and are tired. To be honest, I’m a little tired too (okay, more than a little). I’m also thrilled that you want to spend time with me during the school holidays. When you complained to me the other day that I had to…