Obligatory Blog

Thank you once again to everybody who took the time and effort to give me some feedback on the blog. I’m so inspired, tremendously so actually, to give Comic Mummy HQ an overhaul both in design and content. THANK YOU!!! One thing I found really interesting was that there seems to be a FAQ about how to do this creative/parenting combo gig. I’ll do my best to share some thoughts on this more regularly for shizzle! Very cool. If you do have a SPECIFIC question/thought you’d like

Mmmm. Colour. Sugar. In an effort to be at least mildly useful in this here life, I’m gonna occasionally be posting some stuff about, as the title suggests, “Things To Do with Kids in Brisbane.” I might as well call it “Things I Do With Kids in Brisbane.” Or rather, “Things I Have Just Done With Kids and Photographed The Living Bejinkers Out Of In Brisbane”. Or, just “Instagram. Dawwwg.” Anyhoo, in case I haven’t already told you, the might fine folks at the Queensland Art Ga

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My costume as designed by Little Miss 8. I'm still not sure exactly what I was. It stuns me how spending a relatively measly portion of your life  in a place can cement it in your heart forever. I had long wanted to travel abroad and was expecting that once I’d done so, it would change me. But what I wasn’t expecting was how upon our return to Oz, I would from that point onwards always feel like a little piece of me was missing. The Canadian piece. A piece I hadn’t even known

We’re back from holidays. PHEW. So reassessing my life right now. Anyway, just wanted to touch in and say a huge sorry for being so slack this week with comments, posts, baking muffins for y’all and all that jazz. But now I’m back baby! Oh boy, ten minutes since we got home and already you can see the smoke rising from our house from my fingers on the keyboard. (Note to self: look into developing a “cyber-patch” to ease those cravings in times of sparce internet access. Could

Boy are we learning our lesson. Not that I’m not UNHAPPY we came on our very first family holiday (note that while we have travelled extensively as a family, both throughout Australia and the world, we’ve never just set up camp in the one spot to relax and enjoy it, thus the newly embraced “holiday” status), but just that, well: – we chose a place that had tons of kid-friendly stuff to do; – we wanted to be close to the myriad of theme parks, especially seeing as our family