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School Life is Back 2018
The first school term of the year is well and truly underway! Only seven weeks and two days till the next set of holidays. Not that I am counting – (I so am!!) This year our third child, our Daughter Nelly, started high school. This is a big deal. We have three daughters in high school now! I personally don’t like that year 7 is now considered high school. Nelly doesn’t turn 12 till the end of May, she still loves playing Barbie and with her LOL Surprise Dolls. She is still a little girl at heart, and I don’t want her to feel as though she has…
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Soul Searching January
What an amazing first month of the year! 2018 has gotten off to a great start! The end of the holidays are closing in on us sadly. These holidays have been a wonderful time for our family. We have spent quality time together and this in itself has been what I call, priceless!! Time together is what we needed. Family time + Quality time = Closeness, and the opportunity to do some soul searching! Soul searching gives us an opportunity to assess our lives, make some new decisions, come to terms and make peace with what or who we have lost (specifically people who have left our lives), and…
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Keep it Simple 2018
Hello January!!! I must say that I am very happy that 2017 has gone. The new year is very welcome. The line has been drawn in the sand. The old has gone and the new is here. It is time to move forward and not look backwards. One of my favourite podcast series is called, ‘Happier with Gretchen Rubin’. A podcast that talks about intentionally adding happiness into our lives. Gretchen and her sister Elizabeth Craft, are now up too episode 150, and over the last few episodes have been talking about creating a ‘18 for 2018’ list of things you want to do, achieve, or…
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Taking Stock – December 2017
Oh my goodness, we are at the end of December, about to embark on a brand new year. The New year (2018) will start in about 26 hours! I am personally looking forward to the clock ticking over into 2018. Before it does though, we need to do the very last ‘Taking Stock’ edition for the year! I don’t think I will be doing ‘Taking Stock’ in 2018. I have an idea for something else. Cooking: Due to feeling over committed, I stuck to my old family favourites this month. I must say though that Christmas food was relatively a big deal in our household this month, so…
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The 2017 Wrap Up
What an amazing, huge, emotionally charged, crazy year! How does one really evaluate a year that has been so big in so many ways!!! If I was to link a song to this year, I think I would probably choose Myley Cyrus’s ‘Wrecking Ball’ song! 2017 came in like a wrecking ball! At the start of 2017, I had a lot of ideas for how I wanted the year to play out – things I wanted to do personally, and a number of things I wanted to achieve for our family. I knew it was going to be a little challenging to do it all, but I think I…
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The Game of Life
One of our family’s favourite board games is ‘The Game of Life’. I personally prefer the original version of the game, but after many years of play, we needed to update and buy the new version. Unfortunately, the new version’s board is a lot smaller, and they have changed the format of the game. I suppose that happens when we try to modernise something that doesn’t need modernising. The only reason we decided to upgrade to the newer version was that our game was literally falling apart. Pieces were missing and the board was broken. Our trusty original ‘Game of Life’ had been thoroughly enjoyed and used…
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Taking Stock – November 2017
This month has been huge. I know I say it every month, but I find it crazy that we are in late November already. While it has been a massive year, and I feel the wear and tear of a challenging year, I cannot believe we are in November. Another year has literally flown by. Cooking: Due to feeling over committed, I stuck to my old family favourites this month. I must say though that Christmas is coming, and my favourite Donna Hay Christmas recipe book is calling out to me “Pick me up! Pick me up!” My reply, “I’m coming, I’m coming!!” Drinking : Soda water and…
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Christmas is coming!
Over the weekend we put up our Christmas tree! It was a wet overcast afternoon, and the kids were eager to put the tree up. It was the perfect day to put up our family Christmas tree. We put my new favourite Christmas carol album on Spotify and enjoyed watching the kids put the decorations on the tree. By the way, my new favourite Christmas album is by a band called ‘For King and Country’. This year I am pushing Michael Buble and Mariah Carey off the Spotify Christmas carol list. We usually wait till the first weekend of December to put up the tree, but not this…
