family – Page 7 – The Very Cranky Mummy

I don’t know about you, but coming up with inspiration for meals every night can be difficult. Dave insists that I should just have a fortnightly rotation of simple dishes but I’m not entirely convinced. After all, cooking for me is part necessity/part creativity and to be limited to the […]

The Beauty of Second Chances

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September 12, 2016

There is something special about second chances. Over the weekend we had the privilege of flying to Sydney to attend my Uncle’s wedding. After my last flight experience with Ivy you could say that I wasn’t thrilled to repeat the ‘holding a screaming, writhing baby for the entire descent’ saga, […]

What I’m Into: July 2016

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July 31, 2016

July started with a bang. Literally. Hudson’s head violently collided with the chair leg, splitting it open and earning him a ride to hospital in an ambulance to be stitched back together. Thankfully the rest of the month was a lot less dramatic, though Dave managed to spend a good […]

What I’m Into: June 2016

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July 2, 2016

June has been a month of contradictions. We’ve known the heights of celebration and the depths of pain in receiving bad news about a family member. I’ve discovered insights about stillness and rest and losing it, and wrestled with the feels that come from having my first article submission rejected. […]

The Tapestry of Family

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June 30, 2016

As I write, Baba is lying helpless in a hospital bed, felled by a stroke. She can no longer talk or communicate except by moaning, half her body is now still – unable to be coaxed into movement even by desperation. When I put down ‘Family’ for this month’s theme, I didn’t […]

Walking on the Wild Side

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June 28, 2016

Five years ago I had so little idea of how my life would morph and change. I pictured a cooing baby, Dave gazing lovingly at me as we celebrated the miracle of life together. And it was like that…kind of… amidst the exhaustion of a three day ordeal to meet […]

An Admission of Lack

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May 12, 2016

“All around me are familiar faces Worn out places, worn out faces Bright and early for the daily races Going nowhere, going nowhere” Mad World I felt this song this week. The sad, haunting lyrics expressing the thick fog that has been difficult to shake. Even the boys have resonated with the beautiful, […]

Clarity by Candlelight

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April 16, 2016

When we were kids, every second year Mum and Dad would carry us gently to the car before the birds began chirping, buckle our sleeping bodies in and set off on the road. The first night would be spent in Tumbarumba, the tiny town at the foothills of the Snowy Mountains where […]

A Tapestry of Sorts

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January 20, 2016

“If you don’t get a job, Loren, no worries, just get busy and make some babies.” “Emma, you need to stop wasting your life! Go back to work and use your education!” Family. Where else can you find such an endless source of conflicting and unhelpful advice? I’ve just returned […]

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