Sunday, February 9, 2025
Home Life Lessons

Life Lessons

lessons we learn in like

This last year has been our toughest year financially yet. I would say even tougher than when Jacob and I had our first year living together when we got married. This time last year I found out that I was...
The irony of smashing stereotypes when you’re a woman working in a male-dominant industry is you will be stereotyped by your sexual preference and childhood. One of the first questions I was asked at TAFE by another apprentice was if...
Phoebe turned 10 months last week. She’s been out longer than she was in which is bizarre because didn’t I just have her? It feels like I gave birth a long time ago. So much life has been lived...
Product talk by Nuffnang My income has been haphazard since the after effects of the Global Crisis hit the construction industry. Then having a family and working part time has meant my income has become unpredictable which can make the family...
Over the last month or so I have been s l o w l y going through our house and ridding it of clutter we no longer need. We’re out of the baby stage and it’s quite cleansing removing...
I’m not sure if I’ve told this story here before on the blog but I’m going to retell it again as I see it fitting after the announcement of the Top 100 Blogs for Kidspot’s Voices of 2015. It’s...
Back in January, I was going to share books that I had read each month, and share what I thought about them. This new ‘series’ on the blog never eventuated because of a number of reasons. The main one...
For me, Christmas has never been a stressful time of year. It’s busy, and can be overwhelming getting things done, but I try not to get my tinsel in a tangle or so the saying goes. It's a time...
For the purpose of this article, I am going to use a stereotypical situation of a husband and wife or family situation with dad being the breadwinner and a mum being the home carer while also engaged in the...
It’s been a while since I’ve written personal posts on this blog and it’s been for good reason. I’ve changed the content somewhat away from my life and more around trends and technical aspects of plumbing and renovation. There have...
Trigger Warning for those who have experienced child loss. Early Friday night our home phone rang. When I picked it up it was my brother Andrew apologizing for ruining my big day. I burst into tears and we both cried on...
Phillip Yancey once quoted “I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.” Life requires a lot of faith decisions. The decisions vary in each season of our life. Sometimes when we make our...
This is the follow up post from my trip to Africa that I went on with my fiancé (now husband) 10 years ago. To catch up, read this post and then follow on reading Building an orphanage in Uganda. I...
When Jacob and Magdalene took the rubbish to the bin while staying at the Ballina Lakeside Holiday Park, Jacob noticed the sunset and took our camera with him to take a few shots of the stunning view. I was inside feeding...
I once gave my Grandma Jones a magnet that said, ‘when the going gets tough, head to grandma's’ and head there I would, when the going got tough. The going got tough many times during my apprenticeship. And the times when...
It was the early 1990’s and I was over at my Grandma Jones’s house in this exact room. The blue and green carpeted, purple walled, green ceiling lounge room. Grandma and I were talking about the year 2000. She had worked out that she...
Dear Renee, When you told Lauren and I at the beginning of the year that you weren’t going to go to Problogger Conference 2015 I was sad. How was our trio going to survive the Problogger experience with one third...
Struggles are a normal part of life. They favour everyone and their timing can be rarely predicted. But right now, I know many family and friends are struggling with issues they never saw coming. I don’t know what it...
After a few big weekends of parties and going out with friends, Jacob and I decided to have a slower Sunday (with a much needed sleep in) and head to church on Sunday night. After spending two nights watching...
This time thirteen years ago I had my first date with my husband. I took him to my school formal knowing his name, where he lived and he had the same faith as me. We attended the same church but...
As we count down to the new year, I'm sharing the best toilet paper memes of 2020.  If there was one thing we all survived this year, it was the toilet paper crisis of 2020. While we can laugh about the...
We’re living in times where our decisions and standards are often influenced by others. You only have to look on social media to see this played out. There are so many voices with a standard and moral that won’t...