Last week was the final week of my 3 weeks of annual leave , and it was a transition week from full holiday mode (with family and friends...

This is my third and final instalment in my series on 2025 goals - this first focused on word of the year and personal goals, the second...

This is the second instalment (out of three) summarising my 2025 goals. The first  focused on my word of the year and personal goals....

I'm definitely feeling the New Year energy - which is a good feeling I'm going to enjoy for as long as it lasts. Our friends headed off...

This is week 2 of my 3 week break , and we have our friends (who have 3 kids aged 4-10) from New Zealand staying with us for 3 nights....

I've been taking some time this week - in little pockets of time around all the parenting and family time - to reflect on 2024...

Tried to write this post a couple of times but family time interrupted me! Third time lucky :) It’s been a great few days. Christmas Eve...

Today was my last day of work for the year - I am now on 3 weeks of leave! E is one week into her 6 week break, and O has two weeks off...

Happy to report E is better- looks like it was just a nasty virus. After coming home from the hospital on Monday evening, E slept well,...

Well, that’s not how I planned to spend my Monday! Poor E had been getting headaches on and off since Wednesday last week, with no other...

This has been a busy last week, but in a delightful way. E finished school for the year! She actually had a headache a couple of days...

We put up our tree! We usually do this on December 1st, but last weekend the rain was so heavy that dragging the tree from where it’s...

Thank you to those who wrote supportive messages on my last post, it means a lot to get that reassurance that November sounded as hard as...

The second half of November was a lot - hence the blogging hiatus. I had such a great time writing a guest post on Elisabeth's wonderful...

I’m on way home from 4 nights in Melbourne and it was such a great (if busy!) trip. I came down Thursday night for a work related event,...

Last Friday I was trying to slowly get back into work after a very disrupted and difficult week, but I still felt distracted. A view I’ve...

Our beloved cat St John of 12 years died on Wednesday. He was older, but he was healthy and it was sudden. To say we loved him was an...

It’s been over a week since I posted! This wasn’t planned but life gets in the way sometimes, hey. Here are some a random collection of...

This weekend was a lot of fun. Friday I got an impromptu text from my mum in the afternoon asking if we wanted to come over later for a...

I've made a decision on which project to focus on for the remainder of 2024. I was trying to decide whether to work on creating an...