Well it's Easter Sunday and Easter Bunny made his big entrance last night and dropped off lots of yummy chocolate bunnies and eggs! Today we have a bit of a family Easter dinner to catch up with my littlest sister and bro in-law who are down from Darwin and eat more chocolate, oh make it stop. Our ... read more
Learning To Tell The Time
Mister 8 has started showing an interest in learning to read a clock face, about time kiddo get out of your digital world for 5 minutes I say. So to make things a little bit easier as it isn’t confusing enough, then you throw in roman numerals, I've broken it down for the little guy. Sticky notes ... read more
Losing The Family Pet – How We Coped
11 years ago, when it was just me and him, I could feel that urge to nurture calling, however me being so career focused translated the urge to breed in to buying a puppy! We decided on a Dalmatian, so the search began, we picked our pup, a little girl with one blue and one brown eye who we named ... read more
How To Get Organised Sunday For Monday
Super Sunday Tips For A Marvellous Monday Morning! Sunday is one day that starts off slowly with the promise of a little sleep in, once you open your Sunday morning eyes, your wonderful husband will most probably bring you breakfast in bed, on vintage china, with a cute pot of tea to wake you up. ... read more
KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON
My best advice for any new mother, I love love love this saying. It is everywhere you look and it always appears in shabby chic type decor, which I love. There are so many funny versions of this saying going around at the moment that are so funny. Like keep calm and keep blogging, keep calm and eat ... read more
Cleaning Without Nasty Chemicals
There aren’t many things I hate more than cleaning but it has to be done. What I have learnt over the years is that cleaning products are full of nasty chemicals and are expensive. So I have gone back to basics, chucked out the chemicals I no longer wanted to use and replaced them with simple good ... read more
International Women’s Day What Does It Mean To You?
International Women’s Day 2012 is focusing on the women in the Pacific, raising awareness of their inequality and raising money to make their life better. I have actually had some amazing experiences with my deployment to the Solomon Islands in 2009 with real women living a very different life to ... read more
His And Her Bathroom
I am lucky enough to have two bathrooms in our home, or unlucky as it does mean double the cleaning, anyway! The kids bathroom can get a bit messy with their bits and pieces, and it can also be a battle ground when they are grumpy and tired at night or even in the mornings. So here’s my ideas on ... read more
Cafe Bell, So You Don’t Have To Yell
In my house, every morning I would make breakfast and yell out, "Your Weetbix is ready!', and nothing would happen. Everyday I would make dinner and yell out "Dinner is ready!", and nothing would happen. Everyone would be so focused on what ever it was they were watching, doing, or playing that they ... read more
Healthy Snack Attack
How many times a day do your kids, or husband, say in the most annoying voice, "I'm hungry, what can I eat?". To stop them eating crap (chips, biscuits etc), I just don't even buy that way it stops me eating it too. What I do is fill the fridge, at kids eye level with healthy yummy kid friendly ... read more
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