How good are school holidays? We have just arrived home from a much needed family holiday. It has been years since we enjoyed a real family holiday and it was our first with three kids who were all old enough to not need a day nap! Life Changing! So...

He always said I should be a writer. Although his life was full of conversations and opinions, he rarely offered advice. Perhaps it was because he never really knew what to say, maybe it was my life was so very different to his, or maybe because he silently knew...

Bags, Bags, Bags! School bags, sports bags, library ags, swimming bags plus all of the school stuff! Over the years we have constantly been on the hunt for the perfect storage and organisation solution, for school “stuff”. When we had just one child at school it was easy to...

I can not believe it is Term 2! I know for a fact, that every term I say this term will be busy, but….THIS TERM IS CRAZY! Me – Full time work, part time study of my Masters, a house to manage and most importantly three kids with crazy...

We have now been meal planning for more than six years!  I have to admit we have been a bit relaxed about meal planning during the holidays (read too relaxed to do much of anything!) but we are now gearing up to get back on track.  We have had...

A quick, easy, cheap and delicious Easter or Party activity for kids! With Little Miss A’s 9th Birthday Party being during the Easter Holidays it was an easy decision to make it Easter themed!  To keep them entertained we decorated Easter Biscuits. Ingredients: Arrowroot Biscuits – One pack was...

I think our play room would be up there with our most written about room in blog posts! To give you a bit of context, we have always had a play room.  Before I was a mother, I was a teacher so had amassed a massive collection of books,...

Well they say every year goes faster than the last and 2018 was no exception. What can I say? Life for our family has never been busier. At the end of 2016 I left the classroom (and my school of 12 years) to pursue a leadership position at a...

Can you believe it has now been 7 years since I first started packing lunchboxes on this blog! The days are long but the years are so short. What has changed in that time?  We now have Master O entering his last year of Primary school, so no more...

Well to say it has been a long time between posts is understatement.  It is all down to one thing…..The Lakehouse. After spending months (6-7) talking to the one builder and architect (see the last post)  and having all our hopes in them, we were forced to pull the...