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Mumdanity: January 2014

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One Australian mum's journey through the wonderful, maddening and curious mumdays, otherwise known as parenting. Friday, January 31, 2014. When my daughter started child care. Earlier this month, I knew that we would be up against a steady wave of daycare ailments and illnesses, resplendent and resilient in all their combined snotty, sniffly, snuffly glory. Bricks and iron-fortified cereal mortar. I was delusional. Downright - stark raving, looney-tune, kilo bag of mixed salted nuts, dancing by mysel...

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Mumdanity: May 2014

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One Australian mum's journey through the wonderful, maddening and curious mumdays, otherwise known as parenting. Saturday, May 10, 2014. International Blog Swap Day 2014 - A Bloggy Blind Date with Cookies and Cwtches. It's International Blog Swap Day, and I'm lucky enough to have been partnered up and sent on a bloggy 'blind date' with the delightful Lina from Cookies and Cwtches. T. O mark the occasion, Lina has a written a special guest post! Hi I’m Lina and I blog over at Cookies and Cwtches. I starte...

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Mumdanity: A Parent in Six Letters

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One Australian mum's journey through the wonderful, maddening and curious mumdays, otherwise known as parenting. Sunday, November 17, 2013. A Parent in Six Letters. Infinite possible individual meanings. After seven months in the job, this is how I spell PARENT. P is for Pooplosion. Welcome to parenthood, the world of the brilliantly brave and the domain of the mighty pooplosion. A is for anxiety. If you listen closely enough, you can almost hear your helicopter parenting blades warming up from the momen...

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Mumdanity: The Hardest Decision, The Easiest Day

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One Australian mum's journey through the wonderful, maddening and curious mumdays, otherwise known as parenting. Friday, January 10, 2014. The Hardest Decision, The Easiest Day. Sometimes, the hardest things you can imagine actually turn out to be the easiest - as was the (unexpected) case when my baby started childcare this week. After winning the childcare place lottery. On the days when I watched my daughter playing with other babies at Parents Group catch ups and annual family gatherings, pushing toy...

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Mumdanity: Archive

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One Australian mum's journey through the wonderful, maddening and curious mumdays, otherwise known as parenting. Subscribe to: Posts ( Atom ). Now that you're here, feel free to brew up a cuppa or a cheeky glass of wine, break out the chocolate and make yourself right at home. Let the madness begin! Those Days are These Days. I used to dread those days. Those impossibly long, soul draining, parental working days.  You know the ones.  The ones that . Get your read on. Cloudy, With a Chance of Wine.

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Mumdanity: April 2014

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One Australian mum's journey through the wonderful, maddening and curious mumdays, otherwise known as parenting. Thursday, April 3, 2014. The Wintry Side of the Equation. It's been nearly two months now since I slipped into the exhausting slipstream thick of working-mum life. Most of the life dust has settled, but I am struggling to find out exactly where the time has gone, and where the halves of all the sad and single socks in our neglected washing basket have buggered off to. Our cold dinners have giv...

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Mumdanity: Lights Up and Down the Street

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One Australian mum's journey through the wonderful, maddening and curious mumdays, otherwise known as parenting. Sunday, July 26, 2015. Lights Up and Down the Street. 8pm, Saturday evening. It's pissing down rain and howling wind like a toddler unwillingly separated from its wilted packet of teddy bear biscuits. A taxi is idling out the front, bleating it's horn at the neighbourhood one impatient honk at a time. And in the gusty, squalling rain of all recurrent Melbourne weather atrocities? Other people,...

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Mumdanity: February 2014

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One Australian mum's journey through the wonderful, maddening and curious mumdays, otherwise known as parenting. Friday, February 28, 2014. It's been a few non-alcoholic drinks between posts, but I'm back and flumped on the good old blogging couch, recovering from my first foray into the working mummy world. For the most part, it appears the same cast of characters from my previous life chapter are all still on stage and ready for the next sector of my working journey - appropriately sleepy, hairsprayed,...

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Mumdanity: June 2014

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One Australian mum's journey through the wonderful, maddening and curious mumdays, otherwise known as parenting. Monday, June 23, 2014. When Life Takes Away Your Lemons. When life gives you lemons .". It's a saying we've all heard. When life gives us proverbial lemons, we crack jokes. Make lemonade. Ask for sugar and water. Squirt them in people's eyes. Get your friends to bring salt and tequila. Bake a pie. It would all have to go - the archaic lemon tree and it's communal bevy of produce, the stone fru...