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Aspirations of a rural life

June 4, 2008

The Thinker and I have long held aspirations of a rural life. While we live in a smallish town, we have visions of a hobby farm with a big garden, horses, chooks, a few cows and not being able to look into our neighbours windows (or them into ours). Every time I watch Relocation, Relocation […]

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Progress towards my goals – May

June 2, 2008

Wow! I can’t believe May has come and gone. With birthday parties, visiting family, learning how to work Journeyer’s Chronicles and putting some real focus on my goals, the month has just whizzed by. Here’s my first goals progress report. It feels a bit like parent-teacher interviews. I’ve been good. Honest. 😉 Current goals Post […]

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10 Family Fun Links

June 1, 2008

Each weekend we try and spend as much time together as a family as we can. Sometimes it’s as simple as Friday night fish & chips on the family room floor. Other times, we pack up the caravan and head off for a few days together. This weekend, as The Engineer had been doing such […]

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Our first big test

May 31, 2008

Image via Wikipedia On Thursday I wrote a post about . I wrote about how instead of making impulse purchases of things we think we need, we are making ourselves think again. Well, as it turns out, our resolve is being tested. What timing! Around dinner time on Thursday night our town was blacked out […]

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Simple Living

May 30, 2008

Today I’m making a start on another of my . I’m going to make a skirt each for Cinderella and The Little Mermaid. I have had a search around and found some fabric (pictured below) that I bought years ago, when Cinderella was little. I think there will be enough fabric for both skirts. I […]

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Wants vs Needs

May 28, 2008

Image via Wikipedia For a lot of people “need” and “want” have come to mean the same thing. All to often we are being programmed from an early age to believe that wants are needs. Rather than being guided by our heads when it comes to purchases, we are guided by our hearts. We need […]

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