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Oh Right, It’s an Election Year

Oh Right, It's an Election Year

Australia is a little bit behind the eight-ball with the whole parental leave thing. It wasn’t until the last Federal election that an idea of leave was introduced (due to start next year) which would see families who earn $150,000 or less be entitled to 18 weeks paid leave (at the minimum wage) for people [...]

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Mean Green Family Machine

Mean Green Family Machine

I have entered Smart Home Family 2.0. In this part of my plan, you the fellow bloggers, participate in a blogging carnival. Yes, you. I decided it would be cool to share posts about successes of failures of attempting to live in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way. I’m hoping that everyone will participate and [...]

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Banality of Cliques

Banality of Cliques

Reading this post at Three Ring Circus today I could relate. I never made friends easily, in part because we moved around a lot and at school, everyone seemed to have known one another since Kindergarten. It was hard to break into cliques. Especially as a naturally shy person. One time I did push past [...]

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Functional Illiterate

Functional Illiterate

I’ve been concerned about the local schooling options since we moved to the Central Coast. And I realise this post might come off as snobbish. I don’t care. Some things I should embrace a certain level of elitism in. Education is one of them. When we moved here, I couldn’t drive. So, I caught a [...]

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Kindred Spirit

Kindred Spirit

Riley and one of her grandmothers (she has three). This is her with Virginia. She has always been extremely taken with Virginia (I understand the feeling is mutual), even though they don’t get to see one another that often. She took all of about 2 seconds to warm up today. And then demanded, through a [...]

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SAHM Setting the Women’s Movement Back?

SAHM Setting the Women's Movement Back?

I am so glad that I subscribed to the comments at PhD in Parenting’s article  - Dr. Phil Stay-at-home mom vs. working mom show because if I hadn’t I would have missed out an an a really interesting debate. And that’s one of the things I love about Annie’s blog is it almost always sparks intense [...]

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The Googy

The Googy

Fair Warning – this is going to be one of those super mooshy posts where I wax lyrical about how much I love my baby. If it’s not your kind of thing you may want to skip over it or get a bucket. But don’t say that I didn’t warn you. I’ve had a rough [...]

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Christmas Elf or Christmas Thief?

Christmas Elf or Christmas Thief?

Oh yes, I am one of those parents who dresses her toddler in an elf costume in summer no less (30 degrees C) all in pursuit of that Christmas photo. I’ll admit that it was more of a struggle this year than last year. Damn you mobility – you’re ruining my shot! She didn’t want [...]

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My Best Friends’ Wedding

My Best Friends' Wedding

She and I grew up together – we’re like family – only more interlinked because there’s choice in there too. So now, after 30 years of knowing one another, we both understand one another – inside and out. It’s not that we didn’t have our ups and downs. I was a jealous friend in our [...]

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Catching Up

Catching Up

Since I moved to the Central Coast from Sydney, I don’t see my brother nearly as much as I did before, so it was nice to catch up – even if there wasn’t enough time.

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