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Finn’s fishy 6th
Our little man turned 6 yesterday and as his Official Birthday Party™ is next week, we had a very low key celebration. He’s crazy about fish now (typical Pisces!) especially deep sea fish and...
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Irish Lessons for the kids
In the spirit of St Patrick’s Day, the Irishman decides to educate the kids about their roots by giving them Irish singing lessons…
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A Happy Birthday for a Neutral Boy
Finn turned 6 a few weeks ago and I decided to throw a party and invite his new classmates as well as our neighbours. You know how it is when your kid starts at a new school. Every day as soon as Finn...
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Big Blue Skies
Back in Australia again after our manic tour of Singapore – Hong Kong – Singapore – Vietnam – Singapore over the past 2 weeks. My body is clearly protesting at having to suffer the indignity of the...
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Glamping in the Grampians
Aussie’s are crazy about camping! Where are you going camping? Are you guys tenting it or trailing it? Beach or mountains? I finally relented after incessant pleading from the Irishman and kids, and...
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World Cooking Adventures – Finn’s Favourite Dumplings
I’m not usually daunted by cooking projects but cooking for a class full of ravenous and unabashedly frank little 6 year old gourmets was slightly intimidating at first. “What if they don’t like Asian...
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Mother of 2 Delusional Possums Tells All
Most people have frank kids. I have the privilege of having delusional ones. This year I got from Dylan, a hand painted breakfast plate, handed to me with much pomp at a ceremony in her classroom....
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Marshmallow wishes everyone Happy Mothers Day!
Little Marshmallow our duckling finally grew big enough to defend himself against his grumpy dad’s pecks so we decided to reintroduce Daddy Drake back into the flock. For the first couple of hours,...
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Look for the light and when it arrives, everything changes
I am probably more fascinated than most people by how much the light shifts from season to season, having spent most of my life in the tropics. The sun is low in the sky during Autumn. The light gets...
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Nothing & Everything in the Countryside
This week I’m so grateful for the amazing place which we live in. At first when we moved to the countryside, my city friends asked, gobsmacked, “But what’s there to do?!”. The answer is quite zen-like...
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A real education
If you had asked to guess what the most unexpected benefit of moving to Australia would be, I would have never in a million years thought that the answer would be the amazing education that our...
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New signs and old friends
After four years, we finally got around to naming the house and the instant our new “Cable Car Estate” sign went up, our initial euphoria swiftly turned into dread as we realised that we were now...
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A warm winter’s welcome
Sean, my stepson, came back home this week. We missed him during the 2 years that he was living in Hong Kong and the little ones were counting down the days till he got home. Finn was so excited the...
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We be going to Werribee…
“Dylan, stop eating your lip balm!” “Finn, keep your hands to yourself!” “Dada, drive carefu…ARRRGH!!!!” Nothing like the soothing Leahys Holiday Soundtrack – The Greatest Hits. This school holidays,...
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Confessions of a Neglectful Mother
“You’re NOT doing meditation Mom, you’re actually sleeping!!!” Oh no, I’ve been sussed. I am so, indisputably, regrettably, NOT a morning person. The Irishman is on a business trip this week and has...
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Just another crazy week on the Peninsula
This weekend I was a complete fuzz head. Too much work and bad allergies from the little impromptu renovation that the Irishman had decided to do on the living room – a tiny matter of putting in a new...
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The Unofficial Peninsula Guide to Dining Out with Kids
When I was a kid I used to hate going to restaurants. My parents, like most Singaporeans, love eating out and would always drag us for these excruciatingly long 9 course Chinese dinners, and if you so...
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Random list – the winter edition.
There’s this game going around in the blog world where if you’re tagged, you have to complete a list of questions. In that spirit of randomness, this is my list of random winter fragments. Reading:...
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A chicken & egg conundrum
Guess what? I’ve just had the most incredible weekend away at a self-sufficiency camp in Daylesford. You can read about it on my other blog ThoughtsofLegacy.com here...
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Happy birthday to me
It was my 34th birthday yesterday and also the first birthday of my business. But what do these numbers mean really? For me, they’re just a reminder to pause and reflect. This past year I’ve stopped...
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