Just a few more hours to go and the house will explode with activity as they get dressed in their uniforms, make their lunch and bolt for the bus. The first school day of the year is about to arrive. Are we prepared? I hope so $1300 in textbooks sorted labelled and packed, digital Ebooks … Continue reading
Category Archives: Toolbox
Chinese Whispers and Rumour stop Connection
You can’t yell at someone over and over again when there’s an intervention order – SIMPLE You can’t drive past a few times a day, stalk, and tell your kids your mums the reason you are going to jail, coz that’s the reason , right there – it means stay away, nearly a year of … Continue reading
Christmas with a toxic family
Timely reminders… I almost feel the need to grab a notebook and a pen to write this out long hand all the way through to a final draft, just to make it stick. It needs to. I have learned over decades that I need to know this, that I no longer must repeatedly remind myself … Continue reading
Bipolar Disorder and Heart Disease
The Risk is very real and far to often overlooked. Bipolar Disorder is not just a quirk of the mind which people need to learn to live with, no matter how well managed the disorder itself is, it carries with it a very real physical impact on the body and health. Bipolar Disorder is NOT … Continue reading
Exciting times and lad culture…
Post concussion syndrome, high school preparations, primary school graduation in a couple of weeks and Christmas holidays just around the corner, phew it’s all happening at once around here! We had Nana Grandpa and Rosa Maria all visit last month for mums birthday 🎂 Yay she is 25 again 😉 Jac managed somehow to get … Continue reading
How we are travelling… In a world of uncertainty
We are doing OK. We really are. The chaos of Brexit and an Orange faced entrepreneur with a big mouth winning an election half a world 🌍 away is concerning, but our immediate threats have lost interest for now. All the court cases are finished. Their passports have been processed, approved, issued, and now reside … Continue reading
Adding another to general health
There is a list of things I go through whenever the kids start wilting and lagging. The phone calls from the school increase saying to come and collect them they are sick. They become lethargic, nauseous, have trouble sleeping and concentrating on their work. Frequent bugs coming through are one thing, kids after all are … Continue reading
Success is not a straight line
Indeed success is not a straight line No one makes a decision and walks straight into where they want to be doing what they want to do. There are challenges, obstacles, diversions, redirections, back slides, alternative routes and second winds. My eldest has been sliding back just a little, not enough to declare a crash … Continue reading
Technology, White Elephants and hidden Gems
I have used mobile phones to help the girls and I face challenges for quite a number of years now. It helps us know what is going on as they bounce around homes of family and friends during school holidays. From a young age it has allowed them to stay in touch with Mum while … Continue reading
A Scary Place
Indeed the world is a scary place, it holds so many different people from so many different places, cultures and beliefs. There are those of us who believe we can make our way through this scary world in peace while some believe they can only make their way with Force and Violence. While culture contributes … Continue reading
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