by Hannah | Sep 2, 2017 | From Hannah, How She (or he) Does It, Interviews, Kids and Parenting
I am not a grown-up. Surely I can’t be a grown-up if I sulk at having to fold the laundry or stack the dishwasher. I can’t be a grown-up if I still don’t quite understand the stock market. I mustn’t be a grown-up if I can’t change a car tyre or properly control my own...
by Hannah | Aug 2, 2017 | Food, From Hannah, Kids and Parenting
Today I threw out my scales. Actually, I put them in the garage; more on that later. At any rate they are hereby banished. As a kid there were always scales in our bathroom. Slid away somewhere but easy to get to. I don’t remember when I first became...
by Ria Voros | Jul 26, 2017 | From Ria, Kids and Parenting
I’ll preface this by saying these are NOT the real Proust Questionnaire questions (designed to reveal a person’s true nature), but modified and shortened versions of some of the originals. I doubted my five-year-old could sit through answering 36 of...
by Ria Voros | Jul 6, 2017 | Food, From Ria, Kids and Parenting, Seasonal
I just realised the last time I posted in this birthday cake series was a year ago. Oops. Guess I missed a kid’s birthday in between. And no matter how hard I try, I can’t recall what cake we made Little e–because she had a cake, you can be...
by Hannah | Jun 5, 2017 | Books & Reading, From Hannah, Kids and Parenting, Writing
Elizabeth Gilbert (superstar author of Eat, Pray, Love and Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear) suggests that we don’t call our books “our babies”. It’s not all that helpful or healthy to be so attached to your work output that you assign it the same...
by Ria Voros | May 31, 2017 | Food, From Ria, Includes a recipe!, Kids and Parenting
We have been getting up early in our new house. Really early. And not by choice. Our soon-to-be three-year-old (aka The Tiger) has decided he is a morning person in the most yawn-inducing way. He’s now sharing a room with his older sister, so we can’t just...
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