Gooda Mornink! So, me, MIA again… Yeah. However, this time it’s for one of the most joyful, wonderful and magical of reasons. A birthday. Last week I was in the midst of party preparations. The 4th birthday party that started out as a sausage sizzle at the pool and morphed into a soda shop party [...]
Sausages and mash.
One of my very earliest, clearest, memories is of my Dad making me sausages and mash in the shape of an octopus. In the hopes of getting me to eat something, I am sure. I don’t remember if I ate it. I do remember how awesome that octopus was. How impressed I was with my [...]
Totally addicted to…
Roo has a problem. A serious issue. She’s addicted to YouTube. It all started with Meemah (where, I’m sure most mothers like to lay the blame – their own mothers). One sunny – or rainy, I can’t really remember – day when my mother pointed Roo towards the Play School video of Ning Nang Nong. [...]
Night
Image My husband’s breath is cool against my shoulder. The baby wails a minor complaint. I hold my breath. Will he need settling? Will he wake his brother? I exhale as the whimper from behind the wall wanes, and the house breathes with me. The thoughts are running, racing, raving towards madness tonight. What must [...]
