I struggled a little with what to call this post. Runners up in the title stakes were “The House of no sleep goes on a holiday” and “The house of cruddy lungs goes on holiday”. Ultimately though the “House of germs goes on holiday” seemed most apt. Because that is what our family is, a…
It is not often that bloggers are recognized for what we do so I cracked a huge grin when I was given a Liebster Award. The Liebster Award is an online award given out by fellow bloggers to new bloggers. It’s a great way to network and get your blog noticed. Its also a fantastic…
At the moment my days are punctuated by grabs of time. Grab a little sleep between night wakenings, grab a caffeinated beverage to keep me going during the day, if I am lucky I get to grab a little blog reading. Grabs of blog reading aren’t easy to come by in between the school runs,…
Most of what I write about on this blog is fluff. I make no apologies for that. In my work life (when I am not on maternity leave) I deal with serious issues that quite frankly I wish to leave at the door when I come home to my children. On this website I write…
I recently started a new series inspired by other family travel bloggers – “What we are reading”. Just like the last book I shared, Five Little Fingers and Five Little Toes, today’s book is also for very young children. Written by Leslie Bockol and Illustrated by Jillian Phillips the book, The Five Senses encourages…
There is so much that I enjoy about having a new little bub. One pleasure has been bringing out some of the books that my three year old has cast aside as being too babyish. The exquisite “Ten Little Fingers and Ten Little Toes” by Mem Fox and Helen Oxenbury is one of these. I…
As I pulled into Woolies to do the family shopping I had a doctor’s heart-sink moment. A man was lying still in the gutter out the front of the grocery store. I’m on maternity leave, I don’t thrive on emergency medical situations at my best, but I got out of my car ready to spring…
To my musical, eccentric, gorgeous boy, You turned six today. You will never know the joy it gives me to see you thriving; at school, with friends, and at play (you know how you love the water). It wasn’t always this way my darling. When you were little, you were sick so often. At…
One of the perils of travel is leaving your home unattended. This Easter we enjoyed time away as an extended family with my parents. Unfortunately, when my parents arrived home on Monday they found a scene of devastation. Their home of twenty eight years had been robbed with every room trashed. As well as…