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Mini album: Glenlyon road trip
Last moth Arty, SJ and I packed up the car and went on a road trip into the country. We love rural Victoria in winter – there are cosy cottages to be found, good food to be eaten, and green fields to...
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The Twoby diaries: Stork chasing, part 2
It’s amazing how quickly weird shit can start to feel normal. I mean, trying to get pregnant is weird. Doing it without your partner, and with a syringe is weirder. It’s like Amy Poehler says: “… You...
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Coconut pikelets with strawberry jam swirl
You can’t tell how good these pikelets are just by looking at them. From the outside they look like the standard snack – yummy, but plain. But if you take a closer look you can see little bits of jammy...
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Arty reads: ‘Apple’ by Nikki McClure
Apple, by Nikki McClure is a special book. It is simple enough to be appealing to very young children, but is about ideas that are relevant and interesting to school age children too. This is the...
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Letting the stork go
Cycle two is over, and Twoby hasn’t eventuated. I’ve got some complicated feelings about this. I started doing home pregnancy tests from the earliest possible stage this month, and each time I watched...
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Negotiating with terrorists: how to foster better communication with your pre...
I have an awesome kid. He’s bright, affectionate, funny, and communicative. He’s also three. Like any three year old he can at times be stubborn, unreasonable, and very hard to deal with. Some days my...
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Mama reads: Motherhood & Creativity, The Divided Heart , by Rachel Power
The project that Rachel Power sets out on with this book is one that has been preoccupying me for some time: finding out how creative mothers manage to balance the conflicting demands of their art and...
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Vanilla malt cupcakes
The other week I made Joy the Baker’s salty and malty rice krispie treats to bring along to a D&D session with my mates, and had to buy a tin of malted milk powder for the recipe. The almost-full...
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A conversation with a man who thinks my family shouldn’t exist
Yesterday, my friend Kate and I spent a whole day at the Melbourne Writers’ Festival, seeing a range of panels on writing about history and family. One of these panels was with author Ginger Briggs,...
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Carrot and zucchini muffins
I’m not here to argue that there’s anything new or ground breaking about a carrot and zucchini muffin. I do, however, think there’s a trick to getting the spice balance right. And I think I’ve nailed...
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Online self care for the anxious and depressed
Living with anxiety and depression is, in a lot of ways, like living with a deep bruise, or an tender wound. You’re constantly bumping up against things that make it throb and burn, and you have to...
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Arty reads: The Princess and the Pony, by Kate Beaton
There is just so much to love about The Princess and the Pony, that my brain and my typey-fingers are stumbling over themselves about where to begin. For starters, the princess of the title, Princess...
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Mama loves: Love it, love it, love it clothes (and a giveaway!)
Do you have a particular shop that you just know will always be full of clothes you love? Whatever the season, whatever your mood, you know you can wander in and find at least five things that you...
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Making sure your kid isn’t obsessed with the iPad
Arty has his own iPad. It’s a mini, it’s encased in one of those bomb-proof covers, and it’s loaded to capacity with games that he loves. You’d think that he’d be obsessed with it, and begging to play...
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Half a stick
Some days I’m just not feeling it. I don’t feel excited to be alive, grateful for my charmed existence, or anything at all good. The feelings that fill the gap are often an irreconcilable combination...
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Strawberry coconut slice
I like to have a home-baked thing on hand to stick in Arty’s lunch box on kinder days. I don’t always have my shit together in time to make that happen but I do my best, and he likes it. The good old...
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Mini book: A day at the museum
I made this project as a member of rukristin’s design team, and it was originally posted here on her blog. One of the fun things about Arty being almost-four is the breadth of new adventures we’re...
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas, one and all. Thank you for being part of our lives this year. May your celebrations be joyful, and your new year full of every good thing.
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Family noms: Chicken miso udon soup
Bright, fresh and fast. This recipe is new to my repertoire, but I can see it becoming a mid-week standard. Chicken miso udon soup Ingredients: 2L water 60g fresh ginger, peeled and roughy grated...
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Family noms: Fennel, chilli, and lime chicken with roast vegetables
One of my major aims this year is to keep my life as simple as possible, so I can focus on what’s important. Tasty food that’s easy to prepare is a big part of that. I rarely have the kind of time it...
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