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School holidays, reflecting on the past and looking to the future!
The Summer school holidays started with a bang! The count down to Christmas is on, and the excitement is starting to build. In some ways it feels a little surreal – I know the holidays have started – but at the same time I feel that I have to pinch myself to believe that the holidays have actually arrived. The end of year excitement is in the air and I love it. Its my favourite time of the year. Christmas is everywhere, the days are longer, the nights are lovely. It just a wonderful time of year. This time of year brings a lot of love to the…
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Sarah – when did you get so old?
This morning I crawled out of bed. It was probably one of the hardest nights sleep I have had in a long time, and I think that I have just about had enough of Jaden waking at 1 am and refusing to go back to sleep. Jaden is one of those kids who screams until he gets his needs met so I can only imagine the glee and joy that my neighbours would feel if they were woken up by me trying to do ‘control crying’ or trying those good old ‘Self settling’ techniques at 1 am in the morning. I don’t think the ‘Oldies’ out the back…
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Get your Christmas Spirit on!
My life can’t get any busier at the moment. It’s just not possible. It’s the last week of school and I am so incredibly excited that the holidays are almost upon us. I can smell the holidays and I am very excited! Three O’Clock Thursday afternoon can not come fast enough. Bring on the school holidays is all I can say! Have I mentioned that I love school holidays!? As the school year comes to a close the Christmas season starts. Not sure why I feel the two are different, but for me the Christmas season can only start when school is finishing. Maybe its just…
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Thyroids – who needs them!?
What do you have (or most of you have) that I don’t have? If you guessed a thyroid – you would be correct! I was born without one. A little fact for you, is that I was the first baby found in Queensland to be tested and found to be without thyroid as a baby. I am so famous that my name can actually be found in the medical books to prove this if your wondering! Thanks to me, all babies are now tested for thyroid issues after birth – this test is done in correlation to the heel prick test. This little organ, the majority of…
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Is it financially viable to be a Stay at home Mum?
Over the last 12 months I have asked myself time and time again if it is still financially viable for Australian family’s to have a Stay at home parent? There are a number of blogs and websites which are rich in advice, and give tips and tricks about how to save money in many different ways (www.simplesavings.com.au), but what if you feel like you have exhausted all your options? What if you have gone through the budget and culled everything down to the last cent? What if you have changed service providers to get the better deals, but still you can’t afford to have a lifestyle. Its all work…
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November – the month of getting organised!
Over the last couple of weeks I have been doing a lot of thinking. I have been trying to work out the direction I want to take in 2013. I am trying to make a few decisions for my life. Does anyone else find that they start thinking about the direction for their lives in November, or is just me? I wonder if its because I see tables of fresh new diaries for the next year popping up on tables in shopping centres, so one feels a little pressure to do something with one’s life? There is something surreal about the month of November for me.…
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Argo – the script that changed the lives of 6 Americans!
I don’t think I ever thought that much of Ben Affleck as an actor. Before Argo I think I considered him to be either a standard actor jock or pretty boring. While his childhood friend Matt Damon has gone from strength to strength over the years, poor old Benno has seemed to struggle from one bad script to another. That was until he acted, produced and directed ‘Argo’. I have a brand new respect for the guy! While I don’t think he suits scruffy hair and a scruffy beard, his role in the recent movie Argo is in my opinion going to shoot him into Hollywood’s elite list…
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Mummy friendships – what not to do!
Much of life is about the people we come into contact on a regular basis. Some are friends and some you consider aquaintances so I decided to work out a list of characteristics or traits to have in friendship – specifically friendship with other mums. I have known a particular woman for many years. This person seems to follow me through life, and while she has made her mark on my life in a negative way I am not writing this to get revenge. Instead, I would like to write about my experience with this woman in the light of not wanting to be a friend like this. Let…
