I'm trying to navigate this site but it has a lot to it.  Um, a little about me, I work part-time during school hours and have one day a week off to do the school-mum-helper thing at Miss5's school.  It's my first year as a school mum and it's heaps different to how I was expecting it to be.

I'm a single parent, by choice, and obviously happy with that.  Like to go on little day trips in the car to places we don't get to or haven't been before.  We enjoy camping and we're going on a holiday to Far North Qld later in the year, stopping at Balgal Beach to camp for a night, staying 2 nights at Mission Beach, spending time at Malanda, having a picnic at Millaa Millaa, all the way up to the Daintree.  We've been around South-East Qld and Central Qld so we need to do the top end of the state now.

We're a vegetarian family, except for my brother Miss 5 calls a "chook eater" hahaha.  We're ovo-vegetarian, my mum's ovo-lacto vegetarian, my older brother is vegan and as strict as can be in today's world, considering our car tyres contain gelatine with no alternatives.  We're also a Fair Trade family. 

Miss 5 and I both do scrapbooking, both do gymnastics, both do swimming, and she does AFL while I sit on the side and watch, take photos and drink coffee in the take-away cup and chat with the other mums.

I have a musician brother.  He's lead singer and does rhythm guitar for a band and is a solo artist as well.  I'm his manager.  Basically all that means is that he emails through his work roster 2 weeks in advance (how his work operates) and I book gigs for him working around work times.  If gigs are booked far enough in advance he can arrange his work times around that, but needs to give minimum 4 weeks notice to do that.  Between his band earning $650/gig between them, and him earning $300/gig on his own, work is really to keep him busy between gigs more than for money.

In other areas, I'm involved in politics, coach a sport and am Administrator on a site.  All in all, life is pretty busy and it's full of fun and laughter.  I'm just your average run of the mill mother trying to do the best a mother can do.  Hope to get to know you all better.