Kia orana! I’m sitting on a plane, heading off to our family holiday in Rarotonga right now, approx 3 hrs into our flight and my second glass of bubbly is finally starting to take the edge off. In typical Jack fashion, I feel like all …
Sometimes big corporates do the right thing by the little guys. Sometimes this goes unnoticed and that’s totally fine as well. I had never heard of Jetstar’s Flying Start Programme until about 3 months ago when I was extremely humbled to have been invited to …
I love Marmite and so do both of my little kiwi-mericans. The great Marmageddon of 2012 hit particularly hard in our house and I haven’t really looked back since toast turned black again and we could eat Marmite EVERY DAMN DAY. But I realised something …
It pains me to write that as, if I’m being honest, I’m a total control freak, and I have lost control in my own house. We’ve all fallen victim to a smiling assassin. 16kg of pure cute that does what he likes, bites whomever he …
This week I was privy (loathe to use that word as it sounds like a privilege which was definitely NOT the case in this instance!) to some communication that was just so nasty and unnecessary that had it been intended for me, I would have …
Living with depression and anxiety of course means vastly different things to different people. But, over time, it also means different things to those who live with it; each month, week, shit…….even each day, I can find myself mired in different manifestations of the same …
The antarctic-like temps that have been plaguing Auckland over the past week have meant the kids and I have been hibernating a bit more than normal. Hard not to do when the boys and I all succumbed to a wicked head cold and Ethan was …
Last week was a bit of whirlwind of blogging events and launches, but there was one standout. On Wednesday morning I braved rush hour traffic and enjoyed a gorgeous, intimate breakfast hosted by the amaze Josh Emett for Nespresso. If you’re a coffee lover, then …
Two years after a baby is born, they turn two. Strange but true. What you never expect is just how quickly this happens, how every day feels like they were just born yesterday, like you just woke up and became a mother of two boys …
The irony of completing this years Tough Gal challenge to close out one of the most difficult weeks I’ve had in recent memory is not lost on me I assure you. The poignancy of it, the lovely group of women I did the event with …