People talk about “bucket lists” on travel sites. I’m not real keen on that phrase for a few reasons that I won’t go into here. If I did have a bucket list though, taking my kids on an epic USA road trip would be one of them. After seeing my gorgeous friend Sam’s equally gorgeous…
This post is sponsored by Southern Cross Travel Insurance. The countdown was on – there was exactly one week to go before our much anticipated Disneyland vacation. I was in the stage I call pre-packing – throwing everything out of the drawers that I think we may take before whittling down the choices to the…
“I’m not a sport kid Mum, I’m a musical theatre kid.” It wasn’t something I expected to hear from my then four year old son. In a local pirate ship playground I would hear my son yelling out “I’m Peter Allen” – as in the late great Aussie entertainer Peter Allen. If the name isn’t ringing…
Once apon a time in a the distant past two young lovers posed for their engagement photos on Saint Kilda Pier. Okay, it was only eleven years ago but three rug-rats later it seems like eons ago. This past weekend the time had come for the now slightly older but hopefully not jaded couple to…
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,…
My son was crying the other morning. Crying about art. He just recently celebrated his hundredth day of Prep but he has already discovered that he is particularly good at reading and maths. It was a Wednesday and he has art on Wednesdays and he didn’t want to go to school because he “wasn’t…