Author Archives: Lisa Jay

Day 25: Pete’s 38th Birthday. Day 26: Australia day. A rare moment to run outside on what was really a day of rain. Anouk in particular often climbs the hills hoist clothes line.  An Australian icon & a childhood memory for many Aussie’s. They both climbed it & curiously looked over the fences into the...

This Summer has been the one where Ava will only swim in the deep end of a pool. She wants to be out where the water is way over her head. She no longer thinks it’s fun to swim where she can stand.

What you do when it’s hot and you don’t have a pool

Because her hair is all Summery right now

I’ve been watching Anouk drag kids chairs over to kitchen benches and bathroom sinks so she can stand on them to reach, since she was about 11 months old. So I keep thinking that surely by now she can reach everything in the house. But no. She still can’t reach the freezer… and that is...

This last part of our holidays is all about spending time playing. Putting Christmas presents like their new scooters to use. They wiz around, trying to show us how fast they can go. They are pretty fast. It’s a wonder their shadows can keep up.

I know it’s a cliché thing to say but it really does only feel like yesterday that we set out to buy Ava her first pair of school shoes. But it wasn’t yesterday, it was 3 years ago when Ava was 5. Buying Anouk her first pair of school shoes made it feel very real....

I paused the sharing of my January photo-a -day project while were away holidaying & spending time with family in the Byron Bay region… Now sharing a catch up of my project so far… Day 5: Road Trip Sydney to Byron… Are we there yet? Day 6: We arrived at my brothers place after a long...

“Hey mum, what are you going to write for the words with my hula hoop photo?” “I will probably write about how you are such an amazing hula hooper” “OK” Then I saw her smiling