1. Filling Out Passport Renewal Forms As we plan another international trip for 2015, I got out our passports to check when they expire – and good thing I did, because it’s soon. The kids’ are fine for a while yet. So we need new passport photos! Joy! Because they always turn out the best…
Romance readers rejoice – from the 31st March to 5th April Bookworld will be having offering discounts on their romance titles. Deals an discounts will be on offer every day of that week, so don’t forget to check that out. To kick off proceedings, they have a special offer for Miscellaneous Mum readers: six…
Oh, hello critters. It’s been a few years, so I suppose we were due. But guess what? I’m wiser, the kids are older, and I’m going to meet you bravely. For those of you that don’t die in the treatment, prepare to be squished beneath my fingernails. Those were the words I spoke to myself…
I’ve been home for a little over twenty-four hours and I still feel like I’m on the ocean. Just sitting at the table, I experience a rolling sensation, almost a force, pushing me side to side. I haven’t eaten much, can’t stomach the thought. When my flight arrived into Melbourne, it was pouring rain. By…
[Scene: Lounge Room. One spouse is sitting on the couch, quietly and happily watching television, enjoying the peace while it lasts. The other spouse enters, holding a cushion, and waves it under the first’s nose.] Spouse Two: Smell this. Spouse One (pushing away the cushion): Go away, I don’t want to smell anything. That never…
When You Are Old By William Butler Yeats When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved…
It’s a male-centric list, I know. Not by any design, and I have other titles by women lying about I could/should have picked up instead, but I wanted to get that out in the open straight away. In truth, my reading lately hasn’t been all that thorough or satisfying in the sense I’m getting much…
Here’s our brand new wall decal (or sticker, if you will). It was on sale at Catch of the Day a few weeks ago and on the screen, in the gallery with all the others, it looked cool, so we bought it. Pretty simple, really. People make spontaneous online purchases all the time. And we…
It’s Riley’s eighth birthday today. He’s only a tad older than this blog. I’ve chronicled most of his life here – in little pieces, that will become smaller, or at least more filtered, as time goes on – because it was important to me to tell those early stories to get through one of my…
