Dear Diary,

I’m at my high school camp and was sitting in the food hall for dinner… I’d demolished my plate of food while sitting at the table with my girlfriends. We were giggling about the boy crushes we had sat at the table just opposite us, I felt happy and upbeat as being away from home with all my friends felt refreshing. It’s been a long day of fun (but sometimes annoyingly daggy) ‘team building’ activities and I was starving.

As I got up to grab a few more bites from the serving area, I heard one of the boys call out ‘Going up for seconds ‘big Bridgey’?’

Continue reading →

Let’s just say in my early teens I wasn’t the saint my parents would have liked to have claimed as their daughter. Growing up in a Christian household, I was shall we say rather sheltered from the ‘naughtiness’ of this world. That is until I decided to run away from home and explore all there was on offer. From winning jelly wrestling completions at the pub on Airlie beach to partying til sunrise in the city… I’ve done my fair share of giving my poor parents heart attack after heart attack.

Continue reading →

There are times in our lives where life changes crash in so quickly, you find yourself tumbling around in what seems like a deep dark ocean of rough turbulent waves that barely allow you to catch your breath.

In these moments of uncertainty and transition, the concept of time seems to disappear and the events that take place keep crashing over you, suffocating you and not allowing you to look up and see the shoreline now barely in sight.

Continue reading →

I sold my wedding rings merely a few weeks after separating, and I don’t regret it.

Now I know what you’re probably thinking. How could she? That’s too soon? That’s a bit harsh? What if the marriage could be saved? Surely you would regret that!

Continue reading →

I had been with a man for over ten years. He was my first real boyfriend, the first man I had lived with, my fiancé and then my husband. The father to our darling daughter. The road was long and rocky and eventually our marriage ended in a loveless, hurt filled mess.

Continue reading →

This year Mother’s Day will be very different for me. In the past, the usual Mother’s Day morning consisted of an attempted sleep in, hearing pulls of sticky tape and rustles in the kitchen as my daughter and husband prepared to greet me with a gift and a homemade card. Hearing giggles as she cracked the eggs making me breakfast in bed and being woken by a duo calling out ‘Happy Mother’s Day!’

Continue reading →

I’m a newbie school mum. My little miss started Kindy this year and it only occurred to me a few weeks ago that ‘Oh yeah, that’s right they have school holidays!’ Tomorrow it begins, two weeks of entertaining our kidlets, no packing school lunches or having to remember which uniform they wear tomorrow. Even though we’ve only just finished term one, it feels like a lifetime ago I had my girl all day every day and it got me in a spin thinking ‘what activities are we going to do so she doesn’t get bored!?’Here are my ten budget-friendly school holiday activities to keep the kids entertained and your sanity intact until wine o’clock.

Continue reading →

At first, I was honestly more than happy to forget this birthday. After all, I was turning 29 and wasn’t overly enthusiastic to celebrate the last year of my 20’s *groan*

Continue reading →

When all feels dark and broken
When life feels like it’s cursed
When tears and fears are spoken
As we’re left here on this earth
Continue reading →