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27/09/2026

Daily occurrence of magpies in the house… 😜 befriending them is one thing… having them over in the house is another 😂
His mate flew over for backup 😝
Tony had to clean up all the 💩 from the poor guy being so scared.

Almost finished our landscaping been working hard this past week and month… can’t wait to reveal it…

Landscaping the area and removing logs 🪵 and putting rocks for boundary to make the area more snake 🐍 proof

After seeing red belly snakes mating next to this driveway we are teaching the boys more and more about being safe on the land and the things we can do to deter snakes from coming along our area.

Perfect timing the new dining set arrived for Saturday pizza 🍕 my favourite meal so mama quickly assembled (2 hours later) the tables to give dad a break from putting furniture together

First meal 🍽️ in our new outdoor dinning room was magical under the full moon 🌝…

Forgetting to capture content is happening a lot lately as this is just videos I send the family to capture the moment quickly.

Making breakfast with these boys was with stools is no longer required apparently 🙈🙉🙊

Memphis is about to turn 3 I cannot believe it!!! How cool they figure things out on their own.

Life is pretty good 😌

22/09/2026

This is the life I was trying to build. 🌿

Not a bigger house. Not a busier life. Not more things.

More time. More presence. More ordinary afternoons outside. More of this.

This week’s Tiny Home Diaries is about opening a letter I wrote to myself one year ago … before we moved across the country, before the tiny home, before I knew whether any of this would actually work.

Turns out, so much of what I was hoping for wasn’t really about the tiny home at all. It was about the life I thought it might give us.

And looking through these photos, I think we’re living it. 🤎

The one-year letter … now on Substack. Bio for link

08/09/2026

A new Return on Life experiment begins. ❤️
For the next six months, I'm giving myself $1,000 to invest in my health...not necessarily in the ways we're traditionally told to.
I'm interested in what actually makes life feel better.
Better sleep. More energy. Less mental clutter. Rest. Movement. Joy. Time alone. Being outside. Maybe things I haven't even thought of yet.
August was month one, and it didn't go quite how I expected.
I spent $105. One $80 purchase changed my sleep, my free exercise plan lasted approximately a week 😂, and I started questioning whether some of the best investments in our health actually cost anything at all.
The $1,000 Health Experiment - August is now LIVE

This is the first six-month experiment within my bigger Return on Life series, and I'm excited to see where it goes.

https://caremorebykim.substack.com/p/the-1000-health-experiment-august

07/09/2026

“Homeschool” morning baskets have commenced… again after nothing consistently while we settled!

I’ve always set up little activities for the boys, but now they’re slowly growing into something with more intention.

This month we’re following their new interest in the alphabet…finally! 🎉 ABC stamps, books and a rediscovered number puzzle.

I’m reminding myself that our homeschool rhythm doesn’t need to be complicated. A few books, something familiar and one invitation based on their interests is enough.

I also learnt this week the my boys don’t have to start “school” till 2028 here in Queensland which is pretty amazing I think that they delay school here compared to WA.

Anywho… just sharing how satisfying the feeling of a clean kitchen bench and the colours popping out 🌈 everywhere you can’t help but be excited for the next day.

I even managed to organise the book shelf after it looked horrible for days with books cramming in everywhere… looking into book ends to buy. So I organise it better to how I want it to be… it’s on the list of To Do! 😝

Late night post or no post from this mama… now off to 💤

Share more tomorrow morning what I’ve been working on x

28/08/2026

How do you choose a thoughtful Father’s Day gift for someone who rarely tells you what he wants?

My newest article includes everyday investment pieces, sentimental DIY gifts and experiences that create intentional time between Dad and his children.

But after asking two dads about their favourite Father’s Day gifts, I realised they remembered the feeling of the day more clearly than anything they had unwrapped.

Perhaps the best gift is simply creating a day that makes Dad feel noticed, loved and appreciated. 🤎

Read the new Father’s Day guide here:
https://caremorebykim.substack.com/p/what-dad-really-wants-for-fathers

24/08/2026

A month ago, I asked Tony a question:

“What if we each invested $1,000 into our health?”

We’ve spent so much of the past few years operating in survival mode—parenthood, broken sleep, major moves and all the invisible emotional and mental load that comes with family life.

Now that we finally have a little more space to look honestly at how we’re feeling, we’ve decided to begin a new experiment.

We’ll each have $1,000 to invest deliberately in our health over the coming months. But this won’t only be about what we buy. Each month, I’ll share one paid investment and one free investment involving time, attention or effort—and explore what they actually give back to our lives.

The introductory article is now live:

https://caremorebykim.substack.com/p/what-if-we-invested-1000-in-our-health

I’d love to know: if you had $1,000 to invest in how you feel, where would you begin?

18/08/2026

NEW ON CARE MORE 🏡

I thought moving into our tiny home would be the moment we could finally exhale.

What I didn't anticipate was how many decisions would follow us through the front door.

The snag list. The deck. The landscaping. Moving our belongings across the country. Settling two little boys. Moving our cats. Starting life somewhere completely new.

Eventually I didn't even want to decide what groceries to buy.

I wrote about the decision fatigue that quietly crept in after building our tiny home — and why we've decided that some of our plans can simply wait.

**The Decision Fatigue I Never Anticipated When Building a Tiny Home ↓**

After moving into our tiny home, I was surprised by how I felt.