Today has been a pretty good day. When the day started, both baby Jake and mum Toni were in hospital, status uncertain. Toni was doing alright by all accounts, but Jake was listed as critical, with a broken clavicle and also following two seizures about five hours after his birth. I returned to work so […]
Continue ReadingJourney to Parenthood – Part 2
Welcome to the world, Jake Bradley Sanders. At 01:10 am on the 13th of February, 2012, we welcomed Jake into our family. He was born via natural birth at Calvary Hospital and weighed nine pounds and six ounces, and fifty one centimetres long. He had a few after-birth complications and was transferred to Woden Valley […]
Continue ReadingSydney Farewell Walkabout
Introduction Well, sadly, the time to move on has arrived. Besides Canberra, Sydney is the city we’ve both lived in more than any other city – clocking up almost ten years as on/off residents in between stints in Brisbane, the Gold Coast, Vancouver and HangZhou. Sydney is the city we’ve always returned to, and like […]
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