For the Life of us

As always, my kids are counting down the days until mid-year break. And as always, I have set about to compile a list of all the amazing things we can and may tackle this school holidays. Winter has always been a season I wish away. Bottomline is it’s cold and I freeze. I just cannot justify flushing cash down the toilet with using a dryer or leaving heaters all day. So usually my house is full of damp washing (that I do often end up just throwing in the dryer after a few days) and kids who WILL insist on playing tackle rugby inside when it’s wet outside. Nevermind the mud bath that is our backyard, that get’s tramped all over our floors that need mopping every day… O the joys of Winter school holidays! So here I sit planning, not because I’m super organised but because I live for this stuff! I guess being a teacher at heart and planning youth events for a decade has given me an outlet for this for years. But I love it! I love planning what we’ll do, where we’ll go and with ...

So right  now, as it stands, I'm mother to a peaceful,fun, sweet-natured four year old, an adventurous,curious, toothless seven year old and a creative, social, strong-willed and determined nine year old. If you had asked me a few years ago what the hardest part of parenting was, I would have said without a doubt the baby and to ddler years. The years where the never-ending workload of real life crash-collides with bringing little people into the world. Sleepless nights, keeping toddlers who have an affinity for dangerous activities, alive (!!!), keeping new babies who live with dangerous toddlers, alive(!!!!!) and of course keeping your sleep-deprived, baby-brained, overworked self alive in the process. Having kids is the most amazing, gut-wrenchingly hard, rewarding, (did I mention) A-mazing experience EVER! It is a 'job' never done, a calling never finished and a journey never ending. You evolve as a person, learn how little you actually ever knew and have your strength ...