Mum's gone 2 Aus

Australian media recently announced a new mobile phone \ Facebook app that provides real-time advice to parents experiencing sleep-related issues with their children.

The report Mum read in the Daily Telegraph confirms that, “In Australia, about 25 per cent of up to three-year-olds have sleep problems and, with older children aged three to six, 18 per cent of mums consider their child’s sleep a problem.”

The new Live Advice Facebook service is offered by… Read more

When relocating to a new home in Australia a significant dilemma families are faced with is “What to ship?” The options range from everything (the entire contents of your current home), to nothing (just clothing and personal items), and somewhere in between.

Your decision about what to ship will be influenced by some critical factors relating to your move.

- Are you keeping a property in your country of origin?

- Are you renting your property… Read more

You may or may not know that Mum and Mum’s gone 2 Aus regularly feature on Twitter. Our Twitter account is @shusselmann and all articles we post here and on Facebook are tweeted to around 150 followers. We have tweeted and retweeted nearly 200 times.

When I first started blogging I remember telling my professional self, “I don’t do Twitter!”

Twitter was alien to me and it didn’t sound like something I would get… Read more

Mum isn’t exactly a car person. I’m not overly hung up on the make or model I drive and in the past have made a conscious effort to avoid owning a car because of the impact on my stress levels and the environment. However, when we moved to Sydney two years ago I had been informed (and warned) that my attitude to cars and driving would change; that I would have to become a car person. Not totally… Read more

When relocating to Australia many families are fulfilling a lifelong dream of living by the beach and having a swimming pool in their back garden. In years gone by, popular relocation programs aired on British television consistently showed families relocating from the UK to Aus, moving into large properties with private swimming pools, in close proximity to the Ocean.

Today, the reality of the global economy and in particular property prices in Australia, whether you’re renting… Read more

Relocating to Australia is a big thing. Making the decision to move to the other side of the world, particularly for those living in Europe, is huge; especially if you’re leaving behind close family and friends in your country of origin.

The decision to move takes you through a whole range of emotions; and as if making your minds up wasn’t hard enough you then need to break the news that you’re leaving.

How was it

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Mum is prone to a fair amount of self analysis. Recently I’ve been thinking about why and how it is that I am very settled in Sydney in many ways yet part of me feels my life here is temporary.

I have said before that I can’t imagine living anywhere but Sydney; it’s the perfect city for us and our kids but occasionally I feel that our stay here isn’t forever. I don’t think I’m experiencing… Read more

This month we’re offering a new service to Mum’s gone 2 Aus readers: would you like a Skype Consultation or Coffee with Mum?

Since relocating to Sydney and launching Mum’s gone 2 Aus nearly two years ago we have gained significant relocation experience. Mum has worked with a number of relocation consultants and met many families who have relocated to Australia from all over the world.

Research for our essential ebooks and regular articles on… Read more

We started Mum’s gone 2 Aus five months after relocating to Australia. One of the reasons we started the blog was because we found our first months here very overwhelming, and before and after our arrival we spent a huge amount of time searching the Internet for information that just wasn’t there.

At the time, we didn’t know much about the services of relocation consultants. Using a relocation consultant didn’t occur to us when planning our… Read more