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August 4, 2009

Little Mermaid loves a song. In fact, over the last few weeks she’s begun to sing almost as much as much as she talks. That’s a lot. One of my little helpers for some quiet time is her purple iPod Shuffle. When she’s plugged in I get a good 30 minutes without having to answer [...]

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Grocery Shopping Blues

July 31, 2009

I am so over grocery shopping. Every week for the last, ohhh, 3 months I have tried to find a reason not to do it. The unfortunate fact is that my family has to eat. Bugger. I’m pretty sure I’ve made it as quick and painfree as possible – menu plan, Aldi has only 4 [...]

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Benefits of pets for kids

July 15, 2009

Do your kids love animals? We are a two pet household (a cat and a dog). Both were here before our children. The first two kids aren’t all that interested in the pets. They’ll give them a pat as they walk past sometimes, but that’s about the extent of it. Little Mermaid, on the other [...]

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Simplify your to-do list

July 13, 2009

Image by durotriges Over the last 6 months my to-do list has been slowly, stealthily growing out of control. I had been adding project upon project without consideration of my time constraints. You might remember reading about my search for what it is I want to do with my life. Each time I found something [...]

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A day at the beach

June 26, 2009

Photos by Leanne Nelson A couple of weeks ago I decided to shut the door on the housework, packed Little Mermaid, a snack and my camera and headed down to the beach for the day. We were all rugged up as the weather was looking typically winterish. It turned out to be a beautiful day, [...]

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Christmas in July

June 24, 2009

It’s nearly that time of year again. Can you believe it? I can’t. Christmas in July is a bit of fun, especially here in Australia. Our Christmases are usually hot and dusty. Not the ideal time to be enjoying traditional Christmas fare, although we still give it a pretty good go Not only is July [...]

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