4 Years in the Making

So four years has passed and I find myself here again, typing the URL to a website that was still somewhere within my muscle memory. While it feels strange to be here, it’s also a comfortable sense of familiarity.

I used to write over at the former OD site with the same name. Most of my entries were related to my life in Australia, becoming a parent as the result of IVF and my career as a preschool teacher.

Since the OD days ended, I mostly write over at Prosebox (find me here: https://www.prosebox.net/box/116/) and my life has changed in the most unexpected of ways. I no longer work as a teacher, as I’m at home full-time with my FOUR children. A couple of months after OD folded, I was pregnant again as the result of IVF and gave birth to identical twin boys (December 2014). They were born very early at 30 weeks gestation and it was a very scary and confronting time for me, long hospital stays for our boys and I ended up suffering with PND as a result. This shaped a lot of the person that I am now, and I grew up a great deal. Our family was done, I moved into a recovery phase and we moved forward together… until my twins were 16 months old (June 2016) and – surprise – I had fallen pregnant naturally. Our family plot twist ended up being a little girl, and she was born in February 2017.

My children are now 6, 3, 3 and 11 months.

Life is extremely busy, my twins could have novels written about their cheekiness and my baby girl is a pretty awesome person.

Looking forward to reconnecting with the lives of some of the friends I left behind on the old website, and getting to know some new faces. xx