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I'm heading home from Adelaide today after the most amazing experience these past 5 days at my masterclass. Outside of special family events, this may have been the best week of my life. There were 14 of us in the Masterclass, led by Fiona McIntosh, a bestselling Australian author who writes bestsellers in crime AND historial fiction. It was such a friendly group, Fiona is SO knowledgabe (about writing and also commercial publishing), but also very funny, and we spent a lot o

After a whirlwind of To Do's and prep Monday and Tuesday, I arrived yesterday to Adelaide and have settled into my accommodation, ready to start my Masterclass today! Hard to believe its actually happening. My plane window view The week before I had felt totally overwhelmed and down about work/life responsibilities, and even had thoughts that maybe I needed to make some changes to cope better. And then my hormones changed, and this trip happened, and suddenly life was totally

Well, its been a couple of weeks, and honestly life has felt a bit overwhelming lately (I think I say that often lately, maybe its just this stage of life?). Just very VERY busy at work, busy weekends, and of course, parenting. Life might be busy, but Ive still been taking time to stop and be grateful for our beautiful weather and surrounds Parenting is getting easier in some ways - the kids don't need to be supervised constantly, which is great! But at 5 and 8 they need A LO

Time for a review of my first Quintile of the year (I divide my year into 5 seasons - the four school terms, plus the summer). We've just finished the first term of school which ran end of January until early April, so time for a recap of how I did on my goals so far. A pretty local spot for reflecting on the year so far. Paint O's bedroom - complete! This took a whole weekend plus an extra evening or two during the following week. Its exhausting so can really only do one roo