I LOVE about living in Melbourne!! 1. Trams – they come ALL THE TIME!!2. Public Transport in general – I’ve mastered the trains, trams and buses and am finding it so easy (okay okay, so I’ve caught the wrong tram, the wrong train, and missed a few stops on the bus, but I’m getting there!!)3….
Continue reading →Here’s the first 10 things you may not have known. And here’s the next 10: 1. I love licorice. Almost as much as I love chocolate. That stuff is black gold. Oh, and don’t even get me started on bullets. Oh baby yeah. 2. I get nervous every time Daddy Pig parks his car on such…
Continue reading →They say a picture is worth a thousand words. I’ve already written my thousand words, so here’s a picture. This is me. A 10 year marriage, four children, nine house moves, countless wrinkles, many laughs and tears along the way. Trying not to take myself too seriously. A little bit fierce, a little bit bad-ass,…
Continue reading →Gosh it’s hard to downsize. I think if Oprah came and pulled out all our belongings in our house and placed them out on tables I would be quite shocked. But I don’t think we have a ridiculous amount of stuff. Others would disagree. Did you know that the average household contains 300,000 items? Hubs…
Continue reading →10 years ago, I married this man. I could not have known then, that he would take me on such a unique and extraordinary journey. Our life is like no one else’s I know. He makes me laugh, and has certainly made me cry. But he gets me. He’s not afraid to have the hard…
Continue reading →As promised. “From then to now” – 11 things from our childhood that we are introducing our kids to. 1. Nicknames – my Dad used to call me buggalugs and this is what we call the kids. As well as luggabugs. 2. Spot books – they were some of my favourite books growing up and…
Continue reading →Back to where it all began. We’ve been in Melbourne for less than 48 hours and it feels like we never left. How is that possible? Since leaving the city almost six years ago, we have moved house seven times and had three kids. That’s a lot of life changes by anyone’s standards. Maybe I…
Continue reading →I’ve written this post in my head about 8 times in the last 2 hours, so let’s see how it pans out on screen. Today is my first day with just me and Darby-doo. Quindy began Family Day Care yesterday for 2 days a week which is great in so many ways, and guilt-filled in…
Continue reading →3rd June 2013 – 29th February 2016 This is what I wrote way back in June 2013: (The inspiration – Day Zero Project website) I’ve been feeling a bit ho-hum about my to-do lists and want-to-do lists lately, so when I stumbled upon a blog post about 101 in 1001 I was hooked. I compiled…
Continue reading →Aaaaah…. sweet sweet internet. Moving sucks. And not having internet in the interim makes it even worse. We have signed up for our usual ridiculousGB per month deal, but it won’t be connected until the end of the week, so in the mean time, we’ve paid a ridiculous sum for 3GB of data to get…
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