Bubble Boys-the soapy opera of sport!
Let me say from the start I know Michael Blucher, the author of Bubble Boys, a 371 page in-depth, yet easy to read examination of the “increasingly complex world or our nation’s sports stars”, personally.
Let me also say that just as he showed no bias or favouritism when writing this book, at times about friends, colleagues, bastards or good blokes, I too will be fair and just.
I loved it!
“L”- learner licence for parenting…again
Breast bravery!
It must be the day for breast checks! After an early morning walk of the dogs I came home to pre-fill in some forms for my mammogram at the Wesley Hospital and while I did, I flicked on the TV.
On the Today Show, the female hosts, Lisa Wilkinson and Georgie Gardner were being filmed live undergoing their own tests. It follows a similar story done by an American news presenter whose life was saved because she did the mammogram on air and advanced cancer was detected. She under went a double mastectomy.
The hugely popular website, Mamamia, called the actions of Lisa and Georgie, brave.
Baby steps to letting my baby girl grow up!
” Last day ever wearing winter uniform!!!!!”
This is the post my grade 12 daughter recently put up on facebook.
With five exclamation marks, I suggest she’s quite excited about the looming end of her schooling years, and she did get quite a lot of thumbs up from her friends.
To me there was no ‘like’ at all.
Lessons in fashion from mbff
I woke up this morning with no clue what day it was.
“Is it sunday? Are the kids at school? Why is it light? Where am I?”
After months of lead up work and a massive, manic week I was so tired I slept through and heavy.
The Mercedes-Benz Fashion Festival Brisbane was over for another year.
It was exhausting, exhilarating, and entertaining, challenging, gratifying and overwhelming.
Overall it was successful and satisfying.
Under a Tuscan Storm!
We walked into the sports bar- Maria and Lucia- almost as soon as we arrived at the stunning hilltop village of San Gimignano to watch the finish of the Tour de France at Mont St Michel. It was only a 30 minute drive from the adorable Tuscan farmhouse villa we were calling home for the first five days of our Italian sojourn, so we planned to explore the village and have dinner before the return trip. But dark clouds threatening overhead as we made the drive and a TV on arrival coaxed us inside the bar.
Kingscliff- Australia’s hidden gem
With five daughters, no-one would believe we packed all of them plus the two parents (me and the hubby) into a caravan about four meters long.
But because Kingscliff is such an amazing destination for a family holiday, the annual jam into a steel box by the beach is not only achievable but desirable.
Just an hour and a bit from Brisbane or 15 minutes from the Coolangatta airport if you fly in, my family of seven continue to travel here every year even though we no longer stay at the caravan park.
Oh and if you do ever unearth this gem of a getaway, locals call it Kingy!
The surprises when your teenager has a boyfriend..
The youngest now has a boyfriend.
It’s only a week into the blossoming relationship and the first flowers have been delivered.
Sweet, you might say, but what about if the flowers left on the front porch weren’t for her …..
Kids are like a box of chocolates!
Most of the time you do know what you are going to get, but it’s the surprises that make parenting memorable.
In this case, the alarm went off at 4.15 am.
It does most mornings in our house, with the two youngest girls rowing and either the hubby or I driving bleary-eyed teenagers in the cold and the dark to the boat shed.
But on this day I was up at that time to get to the race-track. Read More
One daughter down!
The backpack!
It’s now been four months and 20 days since the second eldest daughter emptied her room, donated clothing to her sisters and the salvos, packed a backpack and left the family.
It’s been ( except for the 2 weeks we spent surrounded by thousands on a cruise ship and in a resort in cancun) a much more lonely four months and 20 days without her.
Here are the top 10 things I miss.
Karryn Wheelans 