One of the greatest moments of parenthood is experiencing so many of your child's 'firsts' that amaze you beyond anything. You get to delight in the utmost joy that only a parent can, thinking your child is incredible when they perform an action that as adults we take forgranted. Like the first time your [...]
Twelve. It’s a life time. It’s closer to adulthood than it is to childhood. It’s your time for pushing and pulling……moulding your world with big ideas of what is wrong and right, what is just or unfair, what should be or could be. Recently I learned a new word – indefatigable, which means “persistently [...]
“Blink and you’ll miss it”, they say. But I didn’t miss it. I was there, placing you down to sleep in your tiny bassinet. I turned around and you were crawling, then suddenly climbing trees and within an olympic second of time you were leaping up to shoot basketballs. I was there spooning food [...]
As I write this blog post, the irony is not lost on me that it is only now, as Melbourne enters day 165 of various lockdowns, that I have finally had the time to do what is so important to me. For when life is "normal" my days are filled with running around, chores, dancing, [...]
