Sassica

When I was a mom of one, I nailed motherhood. I was calm and patient; my child was well-dressed; the car was pristine; the chores were completed; and there was very little shouting. But as a mom of two, I just can’t parent to the same standards. Everything is messier, louder, more rushed, less organized,…

I moved back to Australia after decades in the US. The culture shock stunned me. When I was in my early 30s, I went for a three-week holiday to my home in Sydney and never left. For years, I had toyed with the idea of moving back home, a place I had not lived since…

As a perimenopausal mum of two toddlers, there are a lot of moods to manage in my house. Let’s just say my children aren’t the only ones losing it over things as trivial as banana-related offences: the banana was cut, wasn’t cut, peeled without permission, is too sticky or “broken.”  Having had my children at…

Parenting is often described as the hardest job in the world. But for the more than 6.5 million mums in Australia, the challenge of parenting is, will be, or has been heightened by perimenopause. With more women giving birth later in life and a study in the US suggesting 40 per cent of 36- to…

This week, the world’s first saliva pregnancy test became available in Sydney pharmacies. SaliStick is being talked about as the first major breakthrough in pregnancy testing since at-home urine tests were introduced in the 1960s. My response? Meh. As a former POAS (Pee-On-A-Stick) addict who was alternating between testing for ovulation and pregnancy for three…