Our house today. Clean and full of rules. Apropos of nothing, I recently got to thinking about when I moved out of home, shortly after my 18th birthday, and moved in with a bunch of friends. There was absolutely no need for me to move out, and my parents were sad that I was, but … Continue reading A story from long ago
I haven't had reason to think of the concept of participation trophies in a long time, not since we millennials grew so commonplace in the workplace and adult life that older generations found it necessary to stop mocking us and our millennial ways (remember? We ruined everything? We ate too much avocado toast? We were … Continue reading In defence of the participation trophy
Welcome! I hope you’ve enjoyed a wonderful Christmas break, if you celebrate. If you’re overseas, I hope you got to see family and friends, and didn’t have your plans scuppered by the Omicron variant (what a twist for the end of the year, right?!) We were down in Hayden’s hometown of Hawke’s Bay for the … Continue reading The last day of 2021
It was recently my 38th birthday! I can't quite believe it. 37 went by quick. And turned out to be a weird old year. I honestly wasn't much in the mood for celebrating. We still hadn't managed to have a proper party for Amelie's fifth birthday, and what with Covid in the community now, we're … Continue reading Another year, another birthday…
It's only Tuesday morning and already we are having a week. Amelie was off school with a cold yesterday – the kind of minor sniffle that, pre-March 2020, you wouldn't even have thought about before packing your kid off to school. It's now the end of 2021 though, and as we all know, life is different … Continue reading Love and kindness
The Judd Crew 