Posts from the ‘Parties & Traditions’ category

Valentines

You gotta hand it to Hallmark for creating a day just for love. I had two options: Feel sick and miserable and sorry for myself, or…

There are two helium balloons wedged into our lounge room ceiling, stranded there for three days now with no signs of coming down — a big…

Our ornaments are packed away, piled into a big tub and stored away until next year. Gone is the plaid and the lights and our Christmas…

Our overnight bags are packed. Presents are wrapped. The house is clean. Fresh sheets line our beds and a beeswax candle burns on the kitchen bench.…

Our first little North Pole party. Little children in their jammies, faces lit up by twinkle lights, cookies in their little hands. Just like it…

Let’s play a game. It’s called: How We Are Feeling About Christmas (In One Photo). We’ll start with Joel. This is how Joel is feeling about…

She wore a white tee and a navy polka dot skirt on her first day of kindergarten. Her backpack looked so inappropriately large, which only made…

There’s really no other way to start this post than with a great giant cup of egg nog. I was in Woolworths yesterday, forgetting to put…

A few weeks back, I gave my husband a deadline for our house renovations. It went something like: I don’t care what it takes, but that Christmas…

Last week, Ella went on her first ever excursion. Her kindy class was visiting an animal centre to learn all about bugs. Bugs are great and all…