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View fullsize First day of big school! And my last first day of big school! No tears from either of us - just excitement and readiness and lots of smiles. Maybe I’m dead inside but really, I just know it’s the right time - even if she is the tiniest ki
View fullsize Yep, I’m still wheeling this one out. Every year until I get the strength to make it again and add Tassie (sorry guys!). Happy Australia Day! Hope your day is a good one!
View fullsize Twelve years after leaving full-time work to have way too many children, I’ve joined it again! I’m doing social media and events for @bedhead_hats - a great local-to-me company that not only makes beautiful, sun-safe products, but does a
View fullsize Last time we went to Norah Head Lighthouse we got there 10 minutes after it closed so missed out on the tour, much to Annika’s horror and disgust because she was whole reason we went there. Yesterday, we had a strange sea mist (apparently) tha
View fullsize Today’s shoot location at @treesimpact - one day I want to buy a giant tree for our relatively bare yard, but I’m scared I’ll kill it 😏
View fullsize What a storm! These past few weeks is how I recall summer as a kid: hot, sunny days, and a cracker of a storm in the afternoon. Today’s outdid itself with giant hailstones - I’ve never seen such big, patterned stones. That first snowflake
View fullsize First day of summer holidays! We could be swimming or exploring or on a bushwalk but instead we are stuck at home waiting for the internet man to come sometime in the next 246 hours (it’s actually only a four-hour window, but it feels like it c
View fullsize Looks like I have a lifetime of cricket ahead of me. Layla filled in for a friend’s team yesterday (and played against her brother’s club!) and got three wickets, one run out and 15 runs not out. Both coaches tried to get her to sign up a
View fullsize Early morning wreath making for Anni’s preschool teacher’s. I did the greenery last night; she stuck the flowers in this morning. All recycled from Zak’s year 6 farewell last night (so I give the flowers approximately 3 hours before
View fullsize The kids are placing bets on how long it takes for Steve to smack his head on this branch or poke his eye with it and cause it to go hurling across the front yard onto the road. They’re not giving it long 😬I’m so not ready for Christmas
View fullsize So I was going to do brown paper stars this year and then @ameliamarthelia did them followed by @oldjoy then @mer_mag and basically Instagram exploded with brown paper stars! And I still love them but for something different I figured I’d go b
View fullsize Not a creepy alien 👽 but Annika exploring in the dark. I found our torch in a kitchen-drawer clean-up the other day and she bugged me for batteries every day. So I got batteries, then she bugged me to go camping. We settled for a night-time walk, wh
 
 
 
 
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