family fun

Ransacked

October 6, 2009

This is our study. It’s a calm, but bright and cheery place where I can sit down to write, edit my photos and of course, study. What feral animal was locked in there overnight that created this mess? Oh, wait. It was kids. My kids. And they weren’t even locked in there. They did all […]

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Family Fun in Port Fairy

August 3, 2009

Remember a few weeks ago I was super excited because I won a competition to be published in Australian Traveller? Well, the latest issue is out and there are my words on the pages 😀 You can also read the story – Family Fun in Port Fairy – online at the Australian Traveller website. To […]

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Fairy Park, Anakie

July 30, 2009

A couple of weekends ago we got to play tour guides for The Thinker’s brother and his family when they came to stay for a few days. They live overseas and haven’t been in our neck of the woods for around 10 years. The choice for the boys was easy – off to the footy. […]

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We’re Home!

October 15, 2008

Here we are back at home. Actually we’ve been home over a week now. It’s taken me this long to drag myself out of holiday mode. It didn’t help that The Thinker had an extra week off. It was very difficult to get myself motivated while I was watching him reading in the sun, heading […]

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Planning a Caravan Trip – Part 3 Keeping kids happy in the car

September 20, 2008

We have three kids – 7, 5 and 3. When we go on our holidays they sit together across the back seat of our car. After the novelty of going on holidays has worn off (as it is bound to do on a long trip), the bickering will start unless we have planned a few […]

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Planning a Caravan Holiday – Part 2

September 19, 2008

Image by The Journeyer via Flickr Today’s post is the second of three in a series on how we plan our caravan holidays (here’s Part 1). We try to get away whenever we can, whether it be a long weekend or a bigger trip over the school holidays. Here I cover how I organise what […]