My daughter has just recently started high school here in Melbourne, she is just 11 (high school starts in year 7 in Australia.) Since day one, she has been bullied and laughed at because of her place of birth, even though she has never lived there. Whether out at recess or in the classroom, there…
My son had to reproduce a famous artwork and lay it out side by side for his art class. This was a fun project we worked on together. Originally we wanted to redo the famous dogs playing cards painting but decided it was too much of a challenge for us with our basic skills and…
My husband is currently on his way to Wellington, New Zealand. Let me say that again, he is flying in an airplane, leaving Australia, to visit another country! Progress! We now have a travel bubble with NZ, yahoo! ✈️ My daughter wrote to Scott Morrison (Australian Prime Minister), to advocate for proper vacation time from…
New week, new sport challenge. This time we tried the Cup Challenge as Miss F had to complete it and send a recording to her sport teachers at school. The object is to begin standing upright, balance a cup on your forehead, lay down and then stand back up without the cup falling. Sound difficult?…
My daughter attends a sports academy and the coaches are always trying to assign creative challenges for the kids to complete for their remote learning. Today’s beauty was the “shoey challenge” which we all had a crack at. Surprisingly, we got it relatively easily despite how difficult it may seem at first. The idea is…
Horny security guards “working” quarantine hotels, a reopening of the country, large family gatherings and now our COVID-19 cases have gone from single digits to double every day for two weeks to now tripling. Our postcode was one of the first in lockdown and now all of Melbourne. Every state in Australia has closed their…
Tomorrow marks the first day for our family of a return to routine, of a little of the life we had before COVID 19. We only just moved to Melbourne at the end of December 2019. The kids began their school year in February and by mid-March I was pulling them out of clubs and…
Phew, it is hard to feel settled when you uproot your family and move across the world. Everything is different and new. It takes time and lots of experiences (good and bad) before it feels like home. I could give you a laundry list of all the things that are wrong at the moment but…
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