Two years ago, I brought you Interview with a toddler. Last year, I shook things up with Interview with a pre-schooler (the dad edition). This year, I interviewed both of my children. At the same time. There were laughs. There was lots of talk ...
Top web reads of September
September was huge in the Hawker household. HUGE! The Bupa Blog Awards. The ProBlogger conference. A skiing trip. School holidays. My six-year-old's third foray into styling. Movie trips. Days at the park. Job interviews. Lots of stuff. Lots of ...
Top web reads of August
August. Bendigo Writers Festival. Birthday parties. 100 days of prep celebration. School fundraising event. Writing course. Writing competitions. Writing opportunities. And even a job opportunity. Decisions, decisions. What else? Reading, of ...
Five more ridiculous things people have said to me about my children
Once upon a time, I let out some GGGRRR feelings on the blog. I shared the top five ridiculous things people have said to me about my children. They'd annoyed me for some time. And it felt good to let them go. Unfortunately, it didn't end ...
Top web reads of March
March. Finally, things slowed down a little. But mostly because we were sick. The kids got sick. My husband got sick. I had a migraine knock me out of contention for an entire weekend. Basically, we were forced to slow down. Things picked ...
Top web reads of January
It felt like every blog post, Facebook status update and tweet I read in December 2015 was about wanting to slow down in 2016. I'd like that too. Bring that on. In February. Because January wasn't the month for it! We've been to the beach, ...
We didn’t start the mummy wars
The mummy wars. GROAN, right? Don't worry. I'm not here to provoke them. I'm not here to stir the pot, poke the bear or perform some other cliché of anger-mongering. I'm here to calm them. In song format, of course. Because that's what I do. ...
Without My Mum – Leigh Van Der Horst (book review)
Earlier this year, I lamented the lack of books and stories about grief when I shared my own story of grief. I was, and remain, annoyed that grief is a largely taboo subject. We are expected to sweep feelings of grief and loss under the carpet, and ...
Top web reads of July
July. Kinder holidays. Sickness. Sniffles. Snuffles. Cuddles. Sleepless nights. For some strange reason, we didn't take any photos of us being sick, sniffling, snuffling, cuddling and not sleeping. So here are some other pics we took this month ...
How I stop myself from yelling at the kids
Alternative (but less catchy) title: How I try to stop myself from yelling at the kids and succeed most of the time. Okay, some of the time. I love my kids. Adore them. I think they're great kids, in that totally non-biased way where even though ...