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• Wordless Wednesday – Going, Going, Gone!

  

  Straggly, knotty, ratty hair begone. Baby Girl’s 2nd haircut was significantly less squirmy than her first and look! Now she has a big-girl’s-bob! She was... Read more

  Posted on 05 February 2013 FAMILY

• When Mum Used to Listen to Cool Music

  

  When this Mum used to listen to cool music, it was, it seems, a long, long time ago. Sigh. In the flurry of children’s entertainment which I embrace to keep... Read more

  Posted on 03 February 2013 FAMILY

• How to Handle Conflict When It Strikes Your Relationship

  

  How to handle conflict – it doesn’t have to be hardHow to handle conflict is one of those life skills crucial to master in order to live happily with others. Read more

  Posted on 02 February 2013 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, LIFE COACH, PARENTING

• Wordless Wednesday – and It’s Back to School Traffic

  

  A Wordless Wednesday when words are really not needed – although some are possibly thought ;) Linking up with and loving Wordless Wednesdays againwith Trish ove... Read more

  Posted on 29 January 2013 FAMILY

• Where the Wild Weather is

  

  Wild weather hits againIn light of the wild weather devastation that ex-tropical Cyclone Oswald has left the Eastern Coast of Australia reeling from these past... Read more

  Posted on 28 January 2013 FAMILY

• Mental as Anything Played at My Party!

  

  It’s my Mental (as Anything) 40th!A few years (cough) ago, I turned 40. I had a little problem with turning 40 and it had absolutley nothing to do with vanity... Read more

  Posted on 27 January 2013 FAMILY

• Back to School – New Year, New Focus

  

  The back to school pep talkFor many Australian families next week heralds “Back to School!” – listen carefully and you’ll possibly hear some very loud sighs of... Read more

  Posted on 24 January 2013 FAMILY

• Wordless Wednesday – The Biggest Loving The Littleist

  

  Wordless Wednesday – Sibling LoveI adore how the Big Boy is so in love with Baby Girl, even though in 2015 his first year of Uni will coincide with the year... Read more

  Posted on 22 January 2013 FAMILY

• Mummy Guilt – It’s About Forgiveness

  

  Mummy Guilt?Learn to forgive yourselfIt’s a funny journey … this motherhood gigMotherhood is such a funny journey and I’m not always talking funny of the... Read more

  Posted on 21 January 2013 FAMILY

• Back to School – 10 Top Tips

  

  10 Top Tips for Back to SchoolBack to school time is always a mixed bucket of emotions for kids and parents, it’s normal to experience varying degrees of... Read more

  Posted on 20 January 2013 FAMILY

• Recipe Share – Roast Vege Tortilla Stack

  Roast Vege Tortilla Stack – a delicious recipe share I’m posting this recipe share today because I made this pile of deliciousness the other night after (what... Read more

  Posted on 19 January 2013 FAMILY

• Free Apps Each Day? Why Thank You!

  

  A free app each day? Why thank you!A daily FRRE app?Yes, please!Are you a free app lovin’ iGeek too? Come on, you can admit it here, it’s ok. Read more

  Posted on 17 January 2013 FAMILY

• A School Reunion Story – When Time Flies

  

  Yeronga SS Class 1A of 1974, then … and now!The story of our school reunion… how time has flownOnce upon a time, at a little suburban state school in inner... Read more

  Posted on 16 January 2013 FAMILY

• Wordless Wednesday – Raring for a Reunion

  

  Raring for a reunionReady, set … reunion!Recently, I excitedly wrote about the preparations being undertaken for the reunion of my Yeronga SS 1A classmates of... Read more

  Posted on 15 January 2013 FAMILY

• Why? Just Why?

  

  Why use a slim model to flog plus size clothes?{image from here}I think I’m still a little shell shocked from checking in at one of my fave online shopping... Read more

  Posted on 14 January 2013 FASHION, LIFESTYLE

• Homemade Coffee Ice-cream and It’s Fructose Free!

  

  Fructose Free Coffee Ice-creamand it’s homemade!Although she’s not sponsoring this post, I do need to thank Aunty Jill for the Cusinart ice-cream maker I got fo... Read more

  Posted on 10 January 2013 FAMILY

• Daytime Sleeps Wanted – Will Trade Anything

  

  Day time sleeps wanted! (Will trade anything!) Where are the daytime sleeps? Bring them back!Now that she’s a ‘big girl’, all of 3 you know, this sight is a... Read more

  Posted on 08 January 2013 FAMILY

• John Taylor – In the Pleasure Groove

  

  John Taylor’s Groove for your Pleasure!If my teenage fantasies had come true, I would have been Mrs John Taylor, you know! He and I would have met me whilst... Read more

  Posted on 07 January 2013 FAMILY

• Preparing for a School Reunion

  

  School Reunion Preparation Tips!Sometime in December, I thought I’d check my ‘others’ message folder in Facebook. It was a random decision and not something tha... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2013 FAMILY

• On This Day, Three Years Ago

  

  Three years ago, on this daya Baby Girl blessing arrivedIt was the 3rd of January, 2010 when she joined our family. Late, unlike her brothers who had... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 FAMILY