I love it when I can report back on a kid friendly adventure that is a resounding success. Dinosaur Adventures, an attraction that was recently in Sydney and has just opened in Melbourne ticked a whole lot of boxes for our family. Open until July 20th and located undercover at the Caufield Racecourse are a…
Think back to your childhood. Was there an experience that indelibly influenced your view of nature? Mine was visiting the Redwood State Park in California as a four year old and marveling at the giants of the North American forest. I sought to recreate that experience for my own kids, in an Australian context…
Here’s the thing. I hate traveling in school holidays. Airfares multiply threefold, accommodation rates double, and places are crowded. My eldest has only started school this year so I am just working out how to handle this. Taking him out of school for a week or two for short trips, or for just a couple…
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…
How much do your kids love LEGO® Speaking with other Mums I know that I am not the only one that spends a fair share of her time chasing after those little blocks. Watergardens Town Centre is transforming into a world of creativity this June/July School holidays with a heap of LEGO® models (and giant ones at…
To me it felt a little like visiting an opium den – one where I was greeted by a cut-out of the Caramello koala. Perhaps as a woman battling 12 extra kilograms of baby weight and a recent gestational diabetic it was unwise of me to visit the production site of my one true weakness.…
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…
I for one am rather glad that we don’t have giant carnivorous reptiles roaming around anymore – it would make doing the grocery shopping even more hellish than it already is with three kids. My three year old has other ideas – he loves dinosaurs and would really, really, really like to meet one. …
If there is one word that describes Port Arthur it is paradox. Port Arthur was established in the early 1800s for the housing and rehabilitation of re-offending convicts transported to Van Diemen’s land. Most convicts were rural poor or from urban slums who had engaged in property theft – viewed harshly by British law. At…
I wish I was an earth-mother, really I do. Instead my kids are saddled with a type A personality, suburban professional as a mum. One reason I travel with my kids is a recognition of what I don’t offer them in our daily lives. Funnily enough it is the simple things they miss out on…