There’s something about a deadline that tickles my mojo. Scouts Region Rally this year had a theme of “Time Warp”, and when one of Beetle’s scout leaders reached out to ask if I had any ideas for a costume, I suggested tie dye jumpers. The concept was embraced, and I volunteered to take care of it. Too easy, I said, […]
The last couple of months have been very quiet in the craft room. There’s been the end of financial year rush, and post EOFY holidays. There was a scout camp, that I made jumpers for, and in return, it delivered us a lurgy that took two weeks to work its way through the family. While I was under the weather, […]
Spending three days in the car, and only two at our holiday destination, sounds like madness. It’s in the madness, though, that magic happens. Like the time we drove to Parkes for two nights, to join the moon landing anniversary celebrations, and our eight hours of driving paid off when watching The Dish at The Dish, and seeing the joy […]
It feels like only a blink of a moment ago we were up before dawn and on the road to collect our big boy at the end of his first year of uni. I swear it was, and yet I once again found myself smacking off an alarm that is far too early to be decorous on a Saturday morning, […]
Gingerbread houses have long been a favourite christmas tradition. We’ve done kits, and we’ve baked our own. We’ve made large family houses and a cluster of small houses, one per child. We’ve even outsourced it and sent the kiddos to a workshop to make shortbread-not-gingerbread houses. This year, Miss 15 was the only one super keen, and managed the whole […]
When the children were tiny, December meant I was chasing my tail from the moment I woke up until the moment I collapsed into bed, my days full of christmas crafts and concerts and storytime and presentation days and more christmas crafts (and then throw in weekend full of making magic for other families, behind the camera taking Santa photos). […]
It was a very Mondayish kind of Monday, yesterday. From being out the door with a truculent teen for a 9am chiro appointment, to a mercy dash to town to rescue a child with a flat battery in their car at 7pm, it was a day that just didn’t stop. It was 8pm before we finished dinner and got the […]
It wasn’t quite 5am this morning, with only the faintest glimmer of the approaching dawn on the horizon, when the first cup of coffee was poured, the chores done, the last bits packed. By 5.30, we were in the car and sending a road trip selfie to the still-sleeping child we were off to collect. Said child finally surfaced around […]
When my children were tiny, my making was compressed into stolen slices of time. I remember thinking “when they are older, it will be easier”. Except it wasn’t, and it’ just became a new kind of busy. My youngest is now twelve, and my eldest is living eight hours away at uni. Number two child has his licence and number […]
We managed to go two years and three months into the pandemic before our first tangle with the pangolins revenge in mid November 2022. After starting strong, we’ve fallen rapidly, and this week, took our fourth turn around the dance floor with the ‘vid in three years. I guess it’s good to get it out of the way before Christmas […]
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