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"Our life is just so great at the moment, no real stresses or worries." As soon as the words spilled from my lips I knew I should have left them as a quiet and unspoken thought. I'm aware it's silly to blame the words on unfortunate things happening, but here...

For those of us who are lucky enough to have a job which allows us to juggle hanging with our kids and working, we’re currently in school holiday juggle town. Recently, I was told to just surrender to it. But I find surrendering really bloody tough. I like to think...

It is official, there’s a pre-teen in the house. This morning was amazing. She was helpful, kind and loving. Who knows who will hop off the bus this afternoon. It’s really interesting being on the other side of this pre-teen / teen angst. I was a pretty troubled pre-teen slash...

A few months ago while I was driving my white Volvo station wagon to pick my kids up from school I had an epiphany. "I am actually a grown up." A couple of things in that picture to help me join the dots. But why did I just realise this?...

"Just be grateful for these moments. A crying baby is nothing compared to what's to come". You know those older mums of older kids who say these things while you're at your wits end, contemplating what the hell you've done and will you're life ever be the way it was...

Have you ever had those times where you just want to lose yourself in all the good things and put all the other life crap in a box for some other time or some other you to deal with? Sometimes I have less energy or gumption to face this stuff...

I've loved granola forever. And I have been buying it forever. Like a mad woman. For some reason, when visiting dad in Tassie this Christmas, I was staring at the boxes of granola in the supermarket and finally snapped. HOW EXPENSIVE IS THIS BLOODY GRANOLA????? The cheapest I could find...

I've got my once a year bottle of Baileys in the fridge and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation downloading, so it's gotta be Christmas. This year is a little different for me, as it will be my first without my kids, but I've still got Bing blaring and I'm still working...

I’ll be the first to admit I have a problem with managing my expectations. I build everything into the most amazing version of what it can be and when it falls short, I’m left disappointed. This is the story of my upside-down rhubarb and strawberry cake, kind of. I imagined...

I have spent most of my time in the car today thinking how to write this post. There's no news or revelation, I've just been trying to articulate a feeling I experienced this morning. You know when you look at your kids and they look back at you in a...

You may have noticed from some of my blog posts we have endured a super long winter, the longest in 25 years. Winter got so hard, I seriously considered getting hold of a dawn simulator lamp to help me just get up in the morning. However, it wasn't until the...

My fella's mum gave me some 1920's Victorian Education Department cooking cards the other day. I thought it might be fun to make a few of the recipes. Being from that era and from the Education Department, I figured they'd be super simple with affordable ingredients. I thought it was...

I’m Not a Bloody Cafe! Actually … Perhaps I Am 1 September 2015 I have one kid who hates eggs and one who loves them. I try not to make meals tailored to their tastes, sometimes I yell, “I’m not a bloody cafe, you know!” Who am I kidding? I...

Teach Your Kids to Cook and You’ll be Rewarded with Kids Who Love to Cook You Things 30 July 2015 Let me introduce my buddy Stacey. She’s held the mantle of top cake baker in my circle of friends for as long as I have known her. And now we...

Maple Marshmallow Fail 7 July 2015 We are in week three of the school holidays and for the previous two weeks I have been promising the kids maple marshmallows. We’ve been preparing for this day by watching instructional YouTube videos, researching all available online recipes and finally by buying five...

It’s a Long Way to Shop if You Want a Lentil Roll 22 May 2015 What a primary school classic that was. I have been pestering a school mum for her lentil roll recipe for almost a year now. I am sure I have spotted her hiding behind the bushes...

Where Did I Come From? 12 May 2015 In the last few weeks my biggest kid had started Prepare for Puberty classes at school. We all giggled about it together, but underneath the giggles I think both of us were slightly petrified. When I was ‘preparing for puberty’ I was...

The Little Things are the Big Things 31 March 2015 Last week dad was telling me about something we did when I was a kid. I had absolutely no recollection and I could tell my dad was a little sad about my lack of memory. This is, however, a brain...

I started writing this post last week. It was to be about how I took my kids to a music festival, how it was awesome to share stuff I loved with them, and how I took real joy in them loving the experience. For some reason, I ended up writing...

We Should Really Do That One Day, Today is That Day 4 November 2014 You know those things you think would be nice to do with the kids one day. But in reality that day never comes around. Well today is that day. The girls and I have driven past...

I am a busy person. And most of the time it is because I choose to be. I don't like being still or bored. I get quite agitated. I spend a lot of time working. I would work day and night if I didn't have a partner to yell at me...

In 1996, I was 20. I moved in to a crumbling art deco apartment on busy Barkly Street, St Kilda. I had minimal possessions, the most important of them being my 3000+ CD collection and my coffee percolator. If that was all I had, I was fine. Nothing much has...

Bagels, Balls and Living Life Your Way 27 October 2014 I know it looks like there hasn’t been much happening in Lunch Lady land lately, but I can assure you, nothing can be further from the truth. Things are happening, for sure, and all will become apparent very soon! BUT,...

Why Are Mums Channelling Derryn Hinch? 6 August 2014 Shame… Shame… Shame… Mum Shame… Mum shaming, it is a thing isn’t it? Mum’s who don’t agree with another mum’s ideas and dragging them over the coals. I really struggle with this. I have actually always struggled with how women turn...