Photo by IMAMA LAVI on Pexels.comSo. 2018. It's taken me a bit of thinking to work out how to summarise this year. On its very basic paper level, this probably wasn't a very good year for us. Both adults in the house lost their jobs (one expected, one completely without warning), both kiddos had challenges …
Category: Chatting
Building the Santa magic
This is something that I shared at work this week and a few people found it interesting/helpful so you might too. We were talking about Christmas and what presents Santa brings. One of my children is very scientific minded and asks questions about everything. Endless questions. All the questions. Questions three levels deeper than you'd think …
I’ll be making gravy
Australian Christmas songs either seem to be cringingly over the top, or songs designed to make you cry. This one manages to fall in between those two categories. As long as you don't think too much about being away from family at Christmas, or traditions around making gravy. I used to be in charge of …
2017
It's been a while since I did this, so let's just launch on in here. I ended up being lucky enough to get the job that I interviewed for just before Christmas, so I spent my Christmas break happy that I was starting work very soon. Chasing freelance work takes a lot of time for …
What to put in an advent calendar
Last year I managed to get organised enough to put together our first advent calendar. I ended up doing a mixture of small toys, chocolate and activities - I had a small piece of paper put into each box with an activity for the day written on it. Most of the activities were things that …
Mumma, Did You Know? 