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10 Effective Ways to Stay Motivated During Winter

August 12, 2009

It’s hard to stay motivated in winter. It’s cold, often wet and windy. And dark. Dark when the alarm goes off. Dark when after school activities have finished. I’m not all that keen on getting out and running errands any time, but in winter I need a pretty good reason to leave the house. You […]

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Yummy Lemon Slice

August 10, 2009

One of my favourite foods from my childhood is lemon slice. My auntie used to make the most delicious one and it was all I could do to stop myself gobbling a whole plateful when I visited. Then I learnt to make it in Home Ec and there was no stopping me. Until I left […]

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Our Home is Good by Sea

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 […]