Category Archives: Personal

They read every day. Often they’ll read a few times a day. They read so much more than I did at their age. They genuinely love books. They pause to tell me the funny bits. “Hey mum, listen to this! It’s sooo funny!” Anouk enjoys reading Anh Do ‘Weirdo’ books and the Andy Griffiths ‘Treehouse series’....

I surprised the family with tennis racquets for all 4 of us for Christmas. I had tennis lessons for a couple of years in late primary school & one thing my family used to do for fun was take our racquets down to the local primary school on a Sunday afternoon & hit a tennis...

Origami. It’s what the kids do these days. Every generation has it’s crazes. When I was a child we collected erasers & made friendship pins. For kids today it’s been loom bands, mindful colouring & origami.

Estelle Miette. 4 months old. Last January she was growing in my womb. Next January she will likely be standing and talking. Today in this sweet in-between, she is my baby. My last adorable baby. It’s been 140 nights since her birth and she’s slept in my arms for every single one of them. 140 nights I treasure. The...

We went back to the beach again today. We all wanted a repeat of yesterday’s fun. I’ve had two days in a row of swimming & playing mermaids with my fun daughters. Yes, we played mermaids & it reminded me how much fun it was to be a kid. I took this photo after some swimming,...

… and so we’ll tell her she was 4 months old when she had her first dip in the ocean.

Anouk. 7 years & 8 months old. Loves to tell jokes. Has a great memory. Had a brilliant report card at the end of grade one. Loves to read books, especially if they are funny. Leaves folded up pieces of paper in every room & writes ‘do not throw me out’ on all of them....

I didn’t take this photo for the project. I had something else in mind for today’s photo, but tonight it’s this photo that I snapped first thing today that feels like it belongs in my project because although it could easily look set up, it wasn’t. We were all still in pyjamas talking about our...

My baby part way through a roll. This is the stage she is at. She first rolled at 3 months old. Now at 4 months she only stays on her back for the shortest time before commencing the inevitable roll onto her belly. It doesn’t matter how many children you’ve watched go through development milestones,...

It’s true what they say. Girls just wanna have fun.