Emily

Book review – Mister Pip and The Light Between Oceans

Time for another book review! And I'm rewinding back to earlier months with the Pink Fibro Bookclub facebook group, as we won't be sharing our thoughts on Christos Tsiolkas's Barracuda until the end of January. (And at this rate, I won't be ...

Kids be kids be who they are

Last year, I wrote about gender-specific toys.An incorrectly titled post, in hindsight. Really, it was about gender-targeted toys. Toys marketed along gender-specific lines, with girls expected to play with dolls, ponies, vacuum cleaners and all ...

Decisions

How many decisions do you think you make each day? Ten? Twenty? Fifty? A hundred?I have no idea how many decisions I make each day. Possibly less than when I was working full-time. Possibly more, but because they're seemingly smaller they don't ...

Feeling grateful

I'm having a rough week. A could-have-been-so-much-worse-but-still-very-scary moment with the kiddlywinks has left me physically, mentally and emotionally drained.I had grand plans for this, my final post of 2013. But.I bought a gratitude ...

Dear Santa

Dear Santa,I swear we just had a visit from you. You're back again? How did that happen?I digress. Already.Hi Santa! The wonderful Jess over at EssentiallyJess has invited me to share a letter to you. I get to ask you for five things!Even though she ...

Children’s book review – December

It's mid-month, and time for another children's book review. Ashleigh, Mitchell and I have been back to the library and picked up a few new (to us) books.And here's what we think of them!----Flotsam / David WiesnerImage sourceWow. Flotsam is ...

My favourite memories of 2013 are…

Anything featuring this guy:Meeting him. Getting to know him. Watching him grow. Watching him learn. Thinking it would take a while to get used to having him in the family.Realising he was always meant to be in it.----Anything featuring ...

Top words of 2013

What words have you heard a lot this year? Selfie? Mummy blogger? Phub?Micropachycephalosaurus?Okay, probably not that last one. But stranger things have happened.Today, I'm over at The Shake for the last time this year, talking about the ...

Top five ridiculous things people have said to me about my children

I generally like to keep things positive here at emhawkerblog. Tales of my children, the renovation, odes to chocolate, and the occasional song rewrite. But I'm running on empty at the moment. Short on sleep, short of temper, and short on tales of ...

Book review – Big Brother and We Need to Talk About Kevin

Time for another book review of the grown-up variety. It's been a while since my last one - long library wait lists mean I've so far missed out on the last two books for the Pink Fibro Bookclub facebook group - but that doesn't mean I ...