Mother’s day is just around the corner and not another slippery dip is offering one lucky reader the chance to win a $150 Elk gift voucher which can be used in store or online. Elk is based in Melbourne and offers original, contemporary designed fashion accessories, leather goods and beautiful apparel. Dads – you have the chance to win too! You will certainly be in the good books this Mother’s Day if you present your loved one with an Elk voucher….
A musing: On becoming a mother
Becoming a mother is life-changing
The third day of April is a very significant day for me. It’s the day I reflect on the experience that most changed my life. Four years ago on this day I gave birth to my first baby. It’s the day I stared in utter amazement and wonder at my daughter. It’s the day I became a mother.
On the 3rd of April 2009, on a wild and stormy autumn day, my long-awaited daughter was born. After much coaxing and a fair degree of force, Miss A was placed in my arms and she was the most perfect thing I have ever seen. Oblivious to her pronounced cone head (a result of the aforementioned force) I felt a surge of emotion that will almost certainly be the greatest experience of my life….
The scent and sentiment of Christmas
Christmas is only days away and the retailers and marketers are rallying to convince us that we must spend money on the perfect gift.
Whilst contemplating what to give my children this Christmas I tried to remember the best present I ever received as a child. With the exception of my first tennis racket I couldn’t think of a single thing. What I could remember, however, was a Christmas experience, which became an annual ritual and remains one of my most cherished childhood memories.
A generation on, I still remember the evening unfolding with perfect clarity. A few nights before Christmas, just as dusk turned to night, our father would bundle up my four sisters and I and drive us into the city. To share an experience alone with our dad was a great novelty for the five of us. He worked six days a week and went back to the office most nights after dinner. But at Christmas time we shared two important activities with him: we would go and see the Myer windows and then visit his office.
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