It feels like a shift happened on April 2nd. This was the day the couch went and we had our going away gathering. I was exhausted the next day and just wanted to lie down (which amazingly, I did do), but something happened. A dunno if it was mental or if things really did just […]
Our couch has been a part of our lives since 2006, and it’s just a couch right? Something easily replaceable. Yeah that’s true, you can walk into a shop and buy a couch (or head to Craiglist/Trademe/Gumtree and buy something pretty quick, but this was OUR couch. Our family was built on that couch. Breastfeeding […]
(No, that’s not a band name, two separate events). Following on from last time about the kids giving things up, I thought I’d talk about two memorable events. We had to find a new home for Baxter. Our very cool, very funny and very grumpy rabbit. The kids’ first pet (minus Isabelle the other rabbit […]
Thanks to a suggestion from Allison, I thought I’d talk about ‘stuff’. Getting rid of stuff is pretty tough for adults, but can you imagine what it’s like for kids? I now appreciate the connection to their creations/artwork and the tantrums involved when you try and throw out some random cereal box that’s been painted. […]
Lesson learned; super fancy wheelie suitcase/backpacks will not stop kids whining. Alpha and Lennox got fancy wheeled/backpack hybrid suitcases for Christmas. I thought, ‘maybe, just maybe they would be so excited by the wheels that they wouldn’t whine about lugging around their own stuff.’ Nope. Lennox was a trooper, Alpha not so much. I’m not […]