Name: Terina Geddes.
Family: Husband Hayden, and three sons, Joshua (11), Benjamin (8) and Timothy (6).
Lives: Middlemarch.
Q What do you enjoy most about being a parent?
As cliche as this is, it’s the small things, the ability to be your child’s world, them being in awe that you can open a jar they have tried and tried to get. Or when they find out how old you are, apparently Hayden is 99 and I’m only 22!
Q What’s a funny memory about children doing/saying the darndest things?
On children leaving the front door open ... I said to our eldest who was probably 5 or 6 at the time, ‘‘were you born in a tent?’’. To which he replied ‘‘No I was born in a hospital’’.
Q What’s a favourite meal in your house?
Wiener schnitznel.
Q What’s a name you loved but didn’t use?
Emma-Kate.
Q What’s the hardest thing about juggling farm life and being a mum?
Knowing where the line is; do I really need to drench that next mob right now? Or can they wait till tomorrow and take the kids fishing? Or does it matter that I’m not going to get the paddock topped? Just because I’m happy to work through lunch doesn’t mean the kids are!
Q What is the best part about raising a family on a farm?
The freedoms rural kids have — climbing trees and making hay bale huts, riding motorbikes, learning to drive, shooting rabbits.
Q How do you get through the tough times?
Coffee in the morning and wine in the evening!
Q What is a great parenting tip?
Tomorrow is a new day — what your children need from you today, they possibly won’t need tomorrow, so cherish the ‘‘mum can you tie my shoelaces, mum can you make me a sandwich’’ moments. They won’t always need you for those things.
