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Mar 12, 2010 1:56pm

Look, sometimes there isn’t much going on that is “blogworthy.” Other times, I have great ideas for posts in my head and then realize I won’t get more than 2 sentences out of it. But often I think of something and then shake my head thinking it just isn’t something...

Wet and wild weather

Mar 7, 2010 12:32am

In the past almost 18 months that we have lived here in Melbourne, there haven’t been many thunderstorms, I think I can count the times I heard thunder on one hand. Melbourne is also a place that suffers from a major drought and we are currently in Stage...

Another reason I know he’s mine

Mar 2, 2010 11:41pm

I was born with Strabismus and had 2 surgeries to correct it. Little did I know that because of this, my children would have a 1 in 5 chance of having it as well. At the end of November, we noticed Jake’s eye was turning in. Knowing we were going back...

Best Mates

Mar 1, 2010 2:27am

Cameron made his first friends when he was 3 months old, when we joined a Gymboree class back in New Jersey. I still keep in touch with many of them and we just got together in January for the first time in 3 years. With Jake, since he is the second...

Reasons to be confused / Standing out in the crowd

Feb 25, 2010 12:54am

Watching tv, an Avon commercial comes on. A woman portraying an Avon consultant (or maybe she really is?) speaking with an American accent “I really love my job, I can work as little or as much as I want to!” Cut away to a screen with a phone number and website for...

Goodbye summer

Feb 22, 2010 11:59pm

Apparently summer is over in 5 days. 5 more days to laze the day away at the beach, 5 more days of chasing Jake around to put sunblock on and keep his hat on at the playground. The first day of Autumn (no it is not called “fall” here) is...

A walk down Mills Street

Feb 16, 2010 3:55pm

Having 30 minutes to kill, while Cameron was at school for his assessment, I decided to get a coffee and take a walk. How often do we really look around, listen to the sounds, take in the smells – of the streets we drive down everyday? The almost-screech of the tram...

Empty nest

Feb 15, 2010 11:55pm

After spending 2 months with family, we are now back to our little family of four. My mom went back to the States a few days ago (in what she will probably now refer to as the longest 2 days of her life) and it is just me, Craig and our...

Dear 40, You are too close for comfort. Can you back up a little bit?

Feb 11, 2010 1:03am

So this is my last day as a 35 year old. Even saying that freaks me out. I swear I was just 17 yesterday…what happened the the past 18 years? And when I was watching American Idol (thankfully we do get that show here in Australia – only a day late!)...

Calling it “prep” isn’t the only difference

Feb 9, 2010 12:27pm

The “preppies” are eased into their first month of school: the first day was only 2 hours, the second day was a half day, and for the month of Feb they do not attend school on Wednesdays to give them a ”rest day.” In the mornings, the preppies don’t line up outside like the rest...