Christmas time used to be such a bittersweet time for me.  Long before I had kids it was the most amazing time of year.  Catching up with friends and family, eating the most delicious foods and no d ...

When I was younger, I used to be a water baby.  Always in the pool for endless hours, no doubt driving my mum mad, my fingers getting all pruney and developed well pronounced tan lines.  The water f ...

Comparison is the thief of all joy.  Theodore Roosevelt I still remember the day, its so clear in my mind – I was sitting at a kinder meeting for my son and all the parents were laughing, rolling t ...

It’s the change of the seasons here in Melbourne. Yet you wouldn’t know it in some of the other states of this gorgeous country. We are now moving from Spring into Summer. We are moving into the t ...

Ok, I’ll say it.  I’m a perfectionist.  Actually, scratch that.  I’m a recovering perfectionist.  Perfectionism has stopped me from achieving so many things and it most certainly stopped me ...

It makes me teary when I think back to the beginning.  How hard it was, the lack of certainty I had and the lack of trust I had within myself and the system.  I was barely surviving, barley coping w ...