This article stems from me spending time browsing through the comment threads of articles I have posted, that contain (as most do) some degree of insight into my feelings, worries and emotions. When I sit back and mentally collate any…
t’s been (only) a little of over 2 years since I lost my sweetheart. Not very long in the grand scheme of things, yet some days it seems an eternity has passed since those horrible final days. I honestly don’t…
I reckon any solo parent would make a bloody good actor. We are so good at wearing a mask, acting out a facade, changing character in an instance. I say this because I just spent a few minutes scrolling through…
Do you have problems getting your kids to eat vegetables? Well so have I/we for as long as they have been on this earth. Hiding them in stewy dishes, giving them fun names or making crap pictures on their plates…
Most days can go either way in my house. There is no real grey area. Either I’m happy and so are the kids when we all wake up. Dancing around the kitchen, singing and laughing our way through the morning…
Firstly, let me tip my hat to all Mums out there. You guys definitely have an x factor when it comes to this parenting game. Ok, maybe map navigation or putting ikea furniture together isn’t your bag (being very sweeping…
Yesterday, in retrospect, turned out to be one of those days that I wasn’t exactly an a1 model parent. You would think that waking up to a stunning Byron Bay winter morning, after 2 weeks of bed hopping in the…
12:43am on a Wednesday night. I’m snuggled up top-to-toe with Grace in a single bed (she needed some Dad cuddles tonight) at my sister in laws on a typical freezing winter’s night in Melbourne. Although her cute little semi-snore is…
Yesterday I found myself sitting on the beach in the glorious winter sun on a Sunday afternoon. Grace and a friend were playing happily in the shallows while Albi tried time and time again, in vain, to join in the…
Today I just couldn’t be arsed. I barely slept a wink last night for some reason (pretty sure it wasn’t the vodka) and woke up to pouring rain and a similar sleep deprived mental state. Kinda reminded me of those…
So I had a emotionality mixed couple of days this weekend. I spent Saturday doing that most dreaded of activities for most blokes: clothes shopping for the kids. Kill. Me. Now. But alas, as it turns out, the gods were…
One thing I really struggle with on a daily basis is focus. Not on work, the washing, cooking, cleaning or the myriad of other minutiae we get consumed by when running a house. I mean focus on the kids. I…
