Some days I don’t love reality. When you’re surviving on night naps not sleep. When you’ve been pinched, scratched and bitten way more than you can handle. When you’ve had to clean poop from the bath. When you’ve worn out the ‘long days, short years’ mantra by saying it so many times it no longer…
I have a theory that people go back for more kids to average out the cost per child. 😛 There is also a lot of marketing out there that’s sole purpose is to make you feel guilty if you’ve not purchased the best (read: expensive) and many, many items for your darling new arrival and it’s…
We’ve gone with cloth nappies. I just hate the idea of wrapping raw sewage in plastic and sticking it in landfill. Who actually reads the side of the pack and empties waste into the toilet first? But I also wanted to be realistic and didn’t want to overload the workload when Riley first arrived home….
So using my blog as therapy again…. Yay for school uniform policy changes in Vic but seriously cannot believe this topic is still controversial. Surely common sense dictates: here are all the items of clothing that make up our uniform, choose the bits you want to wear irrespective of gender. And let’s be honest, allowing…
Having a kid really does remind you to not stuff up the planet. I haven’t actually watched War On Waste but my increased environmental tendencies seem to have occurred on the same timeline. I already do a few things (like shun bottled water packing my own) but here are the small steps I’ve taken recently…
There are two pieces of advice I would share with new mums that allowed me to survive (I was going to say cope, but lets be honest, it’s survive) and to regain some semblance of sanity after having a baby… The caveat: I’m no expert and do not know your personal circumstance – take any…
I’m having a bad day and sometimes therapy is getting thoughts out of your head, through your finger tips and into the ether… I believe gender stereo types limit all genders I believe gender/identity differs from sex/biology and its a spectrum, and you don’t get a choice I believe marriage between two consenting adults…
Is that weird? That the first thing that comes to my mind is not ‘Happy First Birthday Baby’ but ‘Woot – we managed to keep you alive for a year!’ And is it worse that the second thing that comes to mind is that we are celebrating the anniversary of not sleeping through the night?…
When I’m packing for a photo shoot the night prior I do all the usual things – charge and change batteries, check equipment, double check the time and location, pack backups to my backups and then a few not so usual things like adding the baby carrier, filling the wow cup and throwing in the…
I think photography should be about story telling. I’m not a fan of a perfectly lined up group of people all smiling at the camera, with eyes that are doing the exact opposite of looking happy to be here. I love capturing moments, and personalities, and relationships. I want photos to capture the essence, the…