Gimme Five!
byThere’s nothing like cramming five kids into two bedrooms to make our bus seem roomy.
Miss5
Grape Juice
byI can’t let my guard down for a minute with my kids. They’re always trying to put one over me. Especially Miss5.
Home Fashion
by“We need to buy more clothes for the kids,” I told Tracey after baths tonight. Her face registered both joy and shock. Joy, I assume, because of the prospect of shopping, and shock because we have cupboards full of plastic containers full of dress, skirts, shirts and shorts.
Fairy Fast Thinking
bySurely, with seven kids, we are destined to have more parenting fails than people with, say, two children. Right? What is probably less forgivable is when we repeatedly make the same mistakes over and over again.
Role Playing
byAn important part of kids development, role playing is also a great way to see what’s going on in your kid’s head. If you dare…
The Bum Monster
byFind these cracking pants here We have a lot of kids. I know cause I live here and I have to share the toilet with…
When I grow up, I want to be….
byThe good people at The View, a localized magazine, asked me to write a little something for them on the topic of ‘when I…
The Naked Truth
by“Aaagh!” yelled Master7, stumbling out of his bedroom and into the living room. He was rubbing his eyes so fiercely I thought he’d been…
Round & Round She Goes
byOur night away on the Sunshine Coast was fabulous. Even better than the seafood buffet, the breakfast buffet, the bar tab and the general…
Out with the old. In with the shoes.
byMiss2 was hell today, very whingy and demanding, and Tracey thinks this was somehow my fault. It all started because a school shoe of…
Return of The Mac
byBlunt is something of an art form around here, and it’s good to know we’re passing it on to the kiddies. For years, Grandma…
A Day of Play
byToday was Tracey’s last day of working for Blockbuster. As sad as she is to be leaving the team, she’s very excited about setting…
Can’t Fight Literally
byIt seems, when it comes to fighting, my son is a chip off the ol’ block – that is to say, he has no…
Wrong Room
byTechnology can be a little bit frightening when you’ve got kids. I remember when I was growing up, the video player would absolutely baffle…
We’re hooked! Arrr!
byThis morning was progressing with the usual military precision – that is to say there was the barking of orders and everyone scrambling to…