I have been thinking a bit about the idea of ‘Body Love’ since the weekend and how fully (or not) I love my body and how this impacts me. I was away for a few days with my family, to help celebrate my Dad’s 70th birthday. We did a short hike with the kids to…
We recently spent 2 weeks in Vancouver thanks to my husbands work and it was such an awesome city to spend time in with kids. As I was traveling ‘solo’ with three young children Monday – Friday I really appreciated the large variety of things there were to do. Vancouver is a really beautiful city…
Trekking in Sapa with our children was one of the things I was really looking forward to during our time in Vietnam. I had visions of 3 days walking through rice fields and meeting locals in the villages. We opted for a 3 day/2 night trip in the hope it would really allow us to…
This was our first full summer holiday living on Waiheke Island and the first few weeks were filled with visitors. It was wonderful to see so many friends and family but it was also quite exhausting for us all. I realised that we hadn’t built in any real downtime for the family and so 4…
We are off camping this Sunday for 5 nights. We haven’t been camping for at least 2 years now … possibly nearly 3 years! We are super excited. We are off to Motutapu Island and will be getting there via a water taxi service from Waiheke Island – much simpler than dealing with ferries. With…
I am blessed to live on an island filled with amazing walking tracks. They follow the coast, cut through vineyards, lead you to waterfalls or just help you cut across a hill. I love heading out to explore new tracks, either alone or with the kids. The Waiheke Walking Festival starts on the 19th November…
“Mum, when can we go back to the desert?” asks Miss 5 the other week. “I’m not sure. Why would you like to go back?” I ask. “I want to see the flies again” I had to chuckle, the flies were definitely memorable … here I am trying not to swallow any!! In late October…
You know the Facebook “memories” that pop up and ask you if you want to share again? I always ignore them. I share sparingly on my personal page any way so sharing of memories doesn’t fit for me, most of my Facebook activity happens on my Linda on the Go page . However, last week…
This post was originally published on the 7th February 2014 on the website Mums on the Go. With Mums on the Go closing down in March 2016 I wanted to ensure this story was preserved. A few Christmas’ ago we did road trip between Melbourne and Sydney we decided to break the trip up with…
I had the pleasure of being Naomi’s mentor and coach several years ago when she was in the very early stages of setting up Lift Magazine – the emag for any Mum flying solo. I was always struck by Naomi’s determination, vision and spark. After becoming a single mother unexpectedly when her baby was 4…