Australian Women’s Weekly NZ

Family matters

The longest and loudest mornings of my life were those spent getting five children out of bed and off to school on time. Every morning our house echoed with arguments over spilled milk, missing footy boots and pleas for tuckshop money.

There were science projects about woolly mammoths to be loaded into the car and arguments about whose turn

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