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Roots and Wings
I read somewhere about motherhood being the least secure job in the world. As soon as you get the hang of something, such as living with a toddler, it becomes obsolete and you move on to the next...
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Raising kids 1990’s style
As we pack up our home, I’ve now started to re-read the journals that I have kept over the past twenty five years. The first few books were fairly mundane, covering pregnancy, baby milestones, juggling...
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Raising teenagers in a new millennium
The girls got older, more independent. At times, the girls seemed close in age, interested in similar things, played nicely together. At other times they were miles apart, on totally different...
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Review of our Year
In our fast paced lives, we are often so caught up in now, what we have to get done today, tomorrow, that we to forget to look back, to remember the good times, to reminisce. We should take the time to...
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Wedding choices
Everyone has their dream of the perfect wedding. For some, it is the big white dress, vows in a church, in front of all their family and friends. For others, it is a small, intimate affair. For our...
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Roots and Wings
This is an adaption of my post from 29th October last year. It feels very relevant now as we finally head off on our “adult gap year”, thinking from the position of both a daughter and a mother. * * *...
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Returning to Australia
This time next week, we will be landing in Hobart. It’s exciting and a little bit scary, it’s happy and sad. I’ve been to Australia many times, but this time it’s different. I first set foot in that...
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Voices in the same room
For decades, we’ve had family and friends spread across the globe. Back in the day, we wrote letters. Occasional phone calls between UK and Australia were a rare treat at one pound per minute....
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Weekly photo challenge – connected
A couple of images to represent this week’s prompt … connected. Connected
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100 words – September is …
September is balloons and streamers for both our girl’s birthdays. September is autumn, golden leaves and conkers. September is a new school year, end of summer holidays. September is birthdays,...
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Becoming a grandparent is a time of immense joy. A time of looking forward with the hopes and wishes for the new parents and their child. It is also a time of looking back. Memories of our own...
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Weekly Photo Challenge – Peek
A peek over his shoulder as our 12 week old grandson enjoys his first book. Peek
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An early family Christmas
We’ve just had a fabulous early Christmas weekend, with our daughter, son-in-law and grandson in Sydney, along with our daughter who is visiting from London. It’s nine years since we’ve been together...
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#babylife
This is a “guest post” written by my daughter. As background, our first grandchild is almost six months old and he is now on the move! Since birth, he has thrown back some of every feed, just like his...
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Happy Mother’s Day
As I have one daughter in Australia and one in the UK, I get to celebrate two Mother’s Days. This is the fabulous card I received from my younger girl in London. As well as the # on the card, there...
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Visit of a VIP
Later today, a very important visitor will arrive, to spend a week with us. He is travelling more than one thousand kilometres, taking his first ever flight. This visit has required some additional...
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Favourite person, favourite place
Right now, my favourite place is being at home, watching our grandson, as he practices his crawling and standing skills. This week’s photo challenge is Favorite Place
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Baby, animals.
We had a fun day today, introducing our grandson to some local Aussie animals at “Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary”. Wombats Tasmanian Devils Kangaroos Our daughter also enjoyed meeting kangaroos when she...
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Leaves
One of my photo prompts this week, was “leaves”. Perfect timing, as we visited the Botanical Gardens with our daughter and grandson, before they headed home.
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Waiting for the Bruny ferry
What do you do when you race for the ferry with four minutes to spare, but it’s already full so you wait an hour for the next one. You take random photos and let the grandson drive! We’d had a lovely...
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