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• Wordless Wednesday – Happy Hip-aversary to Me!

  

  Hip Hip Hooray!Exactly a year ago, I was in the Sunshine Coast Private Hospital having a total hip replacement. Aged 42.If you’ve seen this operation on shows... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2012 FAMILY

• At Your Place Too?

  

  Do you have mornings……..  where it would seem more productive to crawl right back into bed and pull the covers up?……… where you only speak to your children in... Read more

  Posted on 20 November 2012 FAMILY

• Sunday’s Suitcase 18.11.12

  

  Another Sunday and another hotch-potchy round up of what’s been and gone through the week. So, sit back, chill a little and reflect …The week that ends... Read more

  Posted on 18 November 2012 FAMILY

• Calling a Truce to “the Mummy Wars”

  

  I don’t know about you, but I reckon that of late there’s been too much said – in the media, at playgroups, on Facebook, amongst the posse of mums in front of... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2012 FAMILY

• 5 Tips to Make Dealing with Difficult People a Little Easier

  

  Life would certainly be fine and dandy if we never crossed path with a difficult person, wouldn’t it? Let’s face it, conflict with someone, somewhere at some... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2012 FAMILY, LIFE COACH

• Wordless Wednesday – a Collection

  

  It’s hard to declutter and rid your life of excess when you like to collect things.I like to collect this Blue Elephant patterned china made by Wedgwood. Sigh. Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2012 FAMILY

• 5 Super Cool Image Apps That May Tickle Your Fancy, and They’re FREE

  

  If you’re a bit of an iGeek like me, the hunt for new apps becomes a little like a sport … an extreme sport, at that. There’s a huge thrill that comes from... Read more

  Posted on 12 November 2012 FAMILY, GADGETS, TECH

• A Suitcase of Stuff on Sunday

  

  Welcome to my first Sunday’s Suitcase of Stuff. I was thinking this morning about how Sunday is a great day to reflect on the week past, in order to motivate fo... Read more

  Posted on 11 November 2012 FAMILY

• 5 Reasons Why Friends Are Good for Your Soul

  

  can you ever be too old for duckfaced selfies?Friends are those people in your life who you choose to have there. While family is family and there is often... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2012 FAMILY

• Rule of Thumb Decision Making for Teens

  

  Teenagers are impulsive creatures by nature and often don’t invest enough time in considering a situation and weighing up the available range of options before... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2012 FAMILY, PARENTING

• Wordless Wednesday … It’s the Story of a Girl and Her Cat

  

  Playing with an iPad app I’d forgotten all about, led to this fun magazine cover. It would be true to say though that Baby Girl loves Fanta a bit more than Fant... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2012 FAMILY

• And, They’re Racing …

  

  Today is the first Melbourne Cup Day in living memory that I am doing absolutley diddly squat for. Nada, zip, zilch, nothing. Me and Baby Girl fascinator-less a... Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2012 FAMILY

• Smelling the Roses

  

  Running a household can be a bloody hard job, can’t it? Always it seems there is so much that needs to be seen to, should be getting done and should have alread... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2012 SELF EXPRESSION

• When You Just Don’t Want to …

  Sometimes you have to put on your big girl undies and do stuff that you just do not feel like doing. It’s called LIFE, isn’t it? Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2012 FAMILY

• Put Some Smiles on Some Dials!

  

  Doing something unexpected and lovely for someone else, just for the sake of it, brings heaps of good karma and is a wonderful way of making their day AND... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2012 FAMILY

• Wordless Wednesday – and It is About Words!

  

  So many wars of wit and words have been waged on this old scrabble board. It’s been around for a while, this one, can’t you tell?I {heart} scrabble. What’s... Read more

  Posted on 30 October 2012 FAMILY

• Christmas Gift Ideas for the Teacher … Not an Apple Or Coffee Mug in Sight!

  

  The end of the school year is almost upon us and that means it’s come time to start thinking about teacher gifts. It’s an obligatory custom in the primary schoo... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2012 COMMUNITY, FAMILY, SCHOOLING

• See Ya Later Clutter!

  

  Last night I lost my shit a little. The ‘stuff’, and there’s a fair bit of it, that I have and hold onto is becoming overwhelming and I’m feeling the urge to... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2012 DIARIES, SELF EXPRESSION

• Popping My Bloggy-meet-up Cherry

  

  Today we’re off to the big smoke. The kids are going to hang out with some friends while I attend my first ever blogger-meet-up do in Brisbane. A high tea at... Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2012 FAMILY

• He Aint Heavy … Bro

  

  I’m pretty lucky that my Big Boy and my Middle Young Man have managed to spend much of their lives as great mates. As little squirts they were almost inseparabl... Read more

  Posted on 25 October 2012 FAMILY