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What you do when it’s hot and you don’t have a pool

Because her hair is all Summery right now

I’ve been watching Anouk drag kids chairs over to kitchen benches and bathroom sinks so she can stand on them to reach, since she was about 11 months old. So I keep thinking that surely by now she can reach everything in the house. But no. She still can’t reach the freezer… and that is...

This last part of our holidays is all about spending time playing. Putting Christmas presents like their new scooters to use. They wiz around, trying to show us how fast they can go. They are pretty fast. It’s a wonder their shadows can keep up.

I know it’s a cliché thing to say but it really does only feel like yesterday that we set out to buy Ava her first pair of school shoes. But it wasn’t yesterday, it was 3 years ago when Ava was 5. Buying Anouk her first pair of school shoes made it feel very real....

I paused the sharing of my January photo-a -day project while were away holidaying & spending time with family in the Byron Bay region… Now sharing a catch up of my project so far… Day 5: Road Trip Sydney to Byron… Are we there yet? Day 6: We arrived at my brothers place after a long...

“Hey mum, what are you going to write for the words with my hula hoop photo?” “I will probably write about how you are such an amazing hula hooper” “OK” Then I saw her smiling

Anouk lost her first baby tooth on her last day of Preschool in December. It fell out into her hands ten minutes after we had said all our final goodbyes to her teachers & walked out of the gates for the last time. It was as though it symbolised that now she would no longer...

This is my 4th year of participating in the January photo-a-day project where I take one photo a day of my children for each day in January. On the 1st of January 2011 & 2012, I took a similar photo of my girls without any intention of it becoming a tradition. Then in 2014 we...