Kerri Sackville is an Australian author and columnist, with previous books including Out There: A Survival Guide For Dating In Midlife , The Little Book Of Anxiety and When My Husband Does The Dishes: A Memoir Of Marriage and Motherhood .
She lives in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney with her three kids, who are 23 and 21 as well as a mess machine who is 15, and a cat.
She enjoys clutter, eating takeout and taking long naps on the couch - and she won't be shamed about them, either. Here, Kerri explains why she's proud to have embraced her messier, more imperfect self... “This may come as a surprise to visitors to my home, but for most of my life I was a tidy person.
As a child, I kept my bedroom spotlessly neat. As a young married woman, I swept and I scrubbed. When my son and daughter were born, I put their toys away every night and did the dishes the moment dinner was done.
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