Tweet Thirteen Days and Counting. by Lori Dwyer on December 11, 2012 · 12 comments In case you missed it yesterday on Twitter, I have some very, very bad news. George the kitten, may he rest in peace, was found squashed and mangled roadside not far from the TonyTrainHouse, in the same place Scarlette the […]

Tweet The Cure To Having Too Much To Do (and two very cute Santas). by Lori Dwyer on November 23, 2012 · 4 comments Hotel rooms are perfect for suspending reality. I stayed in the Palais Royale hotel at Katoomba last weekend, thanks to hotels.com and their Welcome Rewards program- it’s like a coffee card, […]

Tweet Holes. by Lori Dwyer on October 29, 2012 · 8 comments I took my kids to Paradise this weekend, with their bestest mate Princess Boofhead and her mum. They ran themselves ragged at the beach. Ate ice cream and drank lemonade and played at the park and argued and fought and had the most […]

Search: label/chop My Son Has Been Kidnapped and Replaced With Some Kind of Alien. by Lori Dwyer on May 2, 2013 · 7 comments My son has been kidnapped and replaced with some kind of highly energised, relentlessly obnoxious alien being. Which may sound overly dramatic, but on some days- like today- certainly feels true. […]

Tweet The Active Avoidance of Resenting My Kids by Lori Dwyer on December 9, 2011 · 14 comments Most days, the things that pulls at the insides and dents my self esteem is the simple frustration of self flagellating mother guilt. Out of all the things in this situation that hurt, all of them that […]

tinytraintown The Sticks. by Lori Dwyer on April 29, 2013 · 8 comments I find myself occasionally feeling as though I have to defend my decision to live contentedly here in TinyTrainTown– in the sticks. Semi–rural. Bush. ‘All the way out here’. Each and every courier, tradesman or journo who’s ever come to the TinyTrainHouse […]

Search: label/clown You Wanna Know About Me? by Lori Dwyer on November 18, 2012 · 50 comments Really? OK then… brace yourself. And remember; you asked for it. My name is Lori. I’m thirty one years old, and I live a little way out of Sydney, Australia. I always thought I was common-or-garden variety normal… […]

Tweet My Little… Darling. by Lori Dwyer on November 1, 2012 · 18 comments My daughter is pushing me to the absolute limits of my patience at the moment. That patience is, admittedly, much shorter and finer than it once was… But really. The child needs an exorcism. Or a multi–vitamin. Maybe a chiropractic adjustment. […]

Search: label/Paradise The Coolest Toy I’ve Ever Seen. by Lori Dwyer on December 17, 2012 · 7 comments As we’ve discussed many times before, my kids have a thing for trains. Steam trains, in particular. I consider it some kind of karmic punishment. I hated Thomas as a kid, probably only because my younger brother […]

Fairies and Things The Fashionista by Lori Dwyer on February 16, 2013 · 10 comments The Bumpy Fashionista. Many, many moons ago I wrote a blog post (the last blog post, actually, before the whole world changed for good) confessing my anti–fashionista status. Complete with embarrassing photo. Not an awful lot has changed, really. I’m […]

Tweet Lady Moo by Lori Dwyer on November 21, 2011 · 25 comments Tiny flower Once a bud Your folds  And creases Smoothing out Growing up  Towards the light A vital mass of cells and water That is Love That is My daughter “Bud” from the novel Handbags and Gladrags by Maggie Alderson I discovered […]

Tweet “It’s OK For You, You Like Kids…” by Lori Dwyer on June 15, 2012 · 29 comments I consider myself to be blessed in that I have access to affordable, good quality child care for my kids. I would absolutely lose my freaking mind without it. The Chop, emotionally handful that he always has […]

Tweet Spring by Lori Dwyer on August 21, 2012 · 12 comments Things shift and change again. Maybe this time it will be a blessing. We have been in the TinyTrainHouse almost a year. My daughter turns three next month. My baby boy, my son… he starts school next year. I will be thirty one […]

Tweet Spring by Lori Dwyer on August 21, 2012 · 12 comments Things shift and change again. Maybe this time it will be a blessing. We have been in the TinyTrainHouse almost a year. My daughter turns three next month. My baby boy, my son… he starts school next year. I will be thirty one […]

WIn Stuff A Mother’s Day GiveAway (To make up for all those other presents you’ll get). by Lori Dwyer on April 19, 2013 · 16 comments This Mother’s Day giveaway happily brought to you by David Jones online store. Mother’s Day in Australia is the second Sunday in May. It’s somewhat of a dividing issue, […]

Tweet A Prayer For My Daughter. by Lori Dwyer on February 27, 2013 · 8 comments Unashamedly inspired by Tina Fey’s prayer for her daughter. She did it better.  *** A quick, quiet prayer to whoever may be in charge, regarding my sweet, fairy daughter. If it be within the keeping of your (admittedly skewed) […]

Food Gastronomical Subterfuge‏ by Lori Dwyer on March 8, 2013 · 5 comments My children are fussy, finicky eaters. The Chop especially. He takes after me. The Bump has inherited her father’s appetite (”Can’t talk, eating…”), but has still been sadly influenced by me. Both my kids will pick and pull at food. They often […]

Clown The Circus by Lori Dwyer on February 22, 2013 · 5 comments I take my children to the circus this weekend, for what I thought was the first time ever. Until I remember that Tony and I took the Chop once a long long time ago, before the Bump was born. I can only […]

pets The Thing With Cats, Part Two. by Lori Dwyer on January 23, 2013 · 2 comments Someone commented on Twitter a few days ago that, just perhaps, TinyTrainTown is very bad juju for cats. The TinyTrainHouse, in particular. I’m thinking they may have a point. I guess the easiest way to break this is […]

August 2012 Memory Is A Subjective Matter, Part Two by Lori Dwyer on August 30, 2012 · 4 comments Continued from yesterday… I add it up in my mind right now and I’m slightly horrified– I went a whole year without mentioning that memory to him. Twelve whole months I just assumed it was safe, […]