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The Toilet Habits of Young Boys
Contrary to the beliefs of pre-children me, I appear to really enjoy having older children. It's been a bit of a surprise to me, I had myself pegged as a "baby person" which just goes to show that if...
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Max Mad Fury Road Is the Perfect Feminist Film
I grew up watching the original Mad Max films, and my desire to see Mad Max: Fury Road was driven as much by nostalgia as anything else. I'm not the person I was back then so having re-watched the...
View ArticleLife as a Working Mama: Can Women Have It All?
I have just come to the end of my first week back at work after some time off with the children. It never gets any easier to wrench myself away from them and back into the 9-5. Never.I remember the...
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Unschooling At Age 5: South America
The house is currently in the grip of Latin fever: Keith spends his evening poring over books about Cuba and Mexico ahead of our trip, and thanks to a well timed football tournament, Alfie and I are in...
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Attachment Parent in Training
Do you ever look at a part of your life and wonder whether you are dreaming? Like you know that this is your reality but you feel like at any moment, someone is going to come along and whip this part...
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A Review of Nil Food Wraps
I cycle to work every day. So far, my sustainable commute has destroyed a high end smart phone, a pair of leather ankle boots (thank you torrential autumn downpour), I have been thrown into rocks by...
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We Accidentally Bought A House
We've been over here for a while now, and we have been pretty happy in our rented house: our landlord is lovely, the house is large, the rent is cheap, the view is lovely and the area is awesome. We...
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A Review of "All I Know Now"
This is probably the last book review I’ll be allowed to write for a while.Hachette were very kind to send me a copy of All I Know Now: Wonderings and Reflections on Growing Up Gracefully by Carrie...
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Burning Down the House
I’m writing this from the warm comfort of the new house, which tells you a little about how this story ends, but not much about the small bumps along the way.Maybe the biggest of which was nearly...
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Practicing Self Care
Yesterday I did something I haven’t done in a long time – I sat on the sofa, ignored the children and read a book.That might not seem like something to brag about. It certainly wasn’t something that...
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Slow Cooked Orange Pulled Pork - A Guest Post
The fam and I are currently off on our world tour, which left me with a bit of a conundrum: Do I give you all a rest from my inane drivel, or do I make judicious use of the schedule function?I sort of...
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Onwards and upwards in 2016
So a long time ago, when I was writing updates every week and before life got crazy, insane, busy, I posted about doing something called the Dusty Bookshelf Challenge.“What could be so hard?” I thought...
View ArticleOur Homeschooling Exemption
So we're a home schooling family now: I know, check me out just casually throwing that in there! Yup, we do a bit of unit learning, some workbooking, mix it up with a bit of un-schooling, y'know, just...
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The Great Outdoors
I have come to the conclusion that going camping is one of life's great exposers of truths.Camping has never been a part of my family vocabulary; growing up we stayed with relatives, or rented cottages...
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The Last Toilet Training Adventure
In this latest episode of where-the-hell-did-my-baby-go, apparently Miss Olive is no longer using nappies. Like most working parents, this was not so much a conscious discussion as me walking through...
View ArticleWhat Do You Say To A Bereaved Parent?
I've been struggling a lot with the strength of my emotions recently, as I always do on the run up to the anniversary of a lost baby.This time of year, it's the loss of Patrick James Doyle - Patpat to...
View ArticleWhen “Equal” Doesn't Mean “The Same”
Have you ever caught yourself speaking and died a little inside?I don't mean when your children have chewed on your final nerve and you realise you have been making noises like Mariah Carey on full...
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When Your Six Year Old Won't Sleep
Back in the dim and distant past, when I spent endless hours reading about the milestones and development of my offspring, my head kinda created a graph that looked a little like this:Which is to say,...
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Elections, and Raising a Media Savvy Child - Part 1
Congratulations America, you finally made me break my resolve not to talk about that unholy mess of a human who plagues my social media feed.What is that made me want to talk to my children about this...
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Three Reasons I Hate Working in STEM
Today I am going to take a huge departure for my usual topics and write a post about my life outside of the family. I'm doing this as my own small contribution to this year's International Women's Day...
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Elections, and Raising a Media Savvy Child - Pt 2
So tonight I sit humbled at the endless ability of my children to surprise me by zigging when I expected them to zag. Metaphorically speaking, of course, I haven't started teaching the children combat...
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I Don't Care If You Judge
Something really curious has happened to me over the last year, and like a lot of incremental changes, I'm not quite sure when it happened, only that it has.On Sunday we went to an incredible street...
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The Great South Island Road Trip
The family and I returned from a road trip last night. One which took us, and our friends, over 1,200 miles around the South Island of New Zealand.So here I sit, with a steaming mug of very artisan...
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Here's to Strong Women ...
When I left for work this morning I did something I often do, namely to kiss and cuddle each of my children goodbye. With Olive, there is often an additional sentiment wherein I look into her inhumanly...
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Does ANZAC Day Need a Makeover?
Today I joined thousands of people at the traditional dawn ceremony of ANZAC Day. Unlike last year, and the pomp and circumstance of Wellington, this year my friend and I fell out of our tents and into...
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