Now the launch of Don't Panic! A Practical Guide to Twins, Triplets and More is well underway (I'm getting some awesome feedback on it by the way!), it's time for me to concentrate on my new business.Smart Steps to Australia came to life at the end of last year when I was awarded a Queensland home-based business grant. The grant paid for a series of business coaching sessions with Jenna Black. The coaching helped me to identify the work I was doing that wasn't filling me with joy and . . . Keep Reading
Do you lead an inspiring life?
Recently I’ve had three different people say something to me that I wasn’t expecting. They told me that I was inspiring. I laughed it off each time and couldn’t take the compliment seriously. But it did get me thinking. . . . Keep Reading
Have you ever thought about moving abroad? #Myexpatfamily
As this month we're celebrating our first whole year in Australia, I'm turning my attention to some freelance writing projects about the subject of emigration. I thought I'd use this post to ask you a question: have you ever thought about moving abroad? Whether to move as a family, work abroad as a couple, travel long term or even teach English abroad?If you've ever thought about doing it (even if you didn't really have the intention of following it through), what were the road blocks that . . . Keep Reading
Our first year in Australia!
Can you believe at the end of this month we've completed our first year in Australia? It feels like we've been here for way longer, yet it also feels like yesterday we said tearful goodbyes to our family and friends back in the UK. It has been the busiest 52 weeks EVER.The first three months were taken up sorting out all of the admin, finding a suburb we liked, looking at rentals, buying cars and picking a school for the boys and daycare for E. Then it was Christmas already! The kids . . . Keep Reading
Travel tips for kids: Survive air travel with parents
Here’s the list of travel tips my five-year-old twins - T1 and T2 - would write as their entry to the Virgin Australia ProBlogger competition. If they could type. And if they could sit still for long enough without getting distracted by Hot Wheels cars, Angry Birds or trying to ride their scooters indoors. . . . Keep Reading