The summer of 2018 will always be remembered in our house as the Summer of Slime. The eight weeks during which my kids became obsessed with making, playing with and generally wallowing in huge quantit...
Week two of Natural Kids and this time we’ve got CrossFit Kids going on in the background. Derek Hurdle is putting 25 children through their paces with Moby playing along. There are cues in the song f...
I’m in the trenches at Natural Kids camp and it’s playtime. There are children making bracelets, racing cars, building towers, drawing pictures and some of them are running a café.
They are hilarious...
Last week, I caved in and bought bunnies for the girls. They’d been doing camp at Wild Island Farm and had got increasingly attached to every living thing.
I caught Belle trying to bring home a chick ...
A few weeks into summer and life has slowed down for the better. Traffic is lighter, work is clearer, the evenings are a lot less manic. Bath time, stories and bed are just way easier, so if I could j...
Short but sweet this week as it’s late, late, late and I’ve still a million things to do before falling into bed.
Laundry, e-mails, make the lunches …. and the list keeps growing as I’m currently wat...
Of the 14 million hashtags used last month on social media, right at the very top was #fashion, followed closely by #style and #beautiful.
Fortunately, #love was right in there too, adding something a...
Last week I was away in England for a big family wedding. My cousin Sarah was getting married and somehow we managed to get every single cousin on my Mum’s side (there are 13 of us) in the same place ...
Last Sunday, I woke up to the sound of the children arguing over whether or not to wake me. It was 7.43am.
I’d said any time after 7.30am and Belle had been pacing the hallway for 13 minutes absolutel...
This week we’re riding the high of wrapping up another round of Beat the Couch. Season 11 brought us an amazing pack of beginner runners and we now have another 60 people on the road.
There are a lot...
