“Blink and you’ll miss it”, they say. But I didn’t miss it. I was there, placing you down to sleep in your tiny bassinet. I turned around and you were crawling, then suddenly climbing trees and within an olympic second of time you were leaping up to shoot basketballs. I was there spooning food [...]
As I write this blog post, the irony is not lost on me that it is only now, as Melbourne enters day 165 of various lockdowns, that I have finally had the time to do what is so important to me. For when life is "normal" my days are filled with running around, chores, dancing, [...]
It feels so normal that you are eleven today. Yet at the same time my heart is racing to catch up with my brain as it struggles to believe that it was not just yesterday when you were placed into my arms, all 2.7kg of your perfectly formed anatomy. For how could it be [...]
Today my kids start a sort of new school year, we're calling it Year 3/5 and three quarters. It's been 107 days to be exact since they last arrived at the school gates. For the past seven months, they have had a mere three weeks of physical school attendance. Most of their [...]
