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10 Benefits of Yoga

April 15, 2009

Photo by tarotastic After a long time thinking about it, I was recently able to swing childcare, school and location so I could enrol in a yoga class. I knew some of the benefits of yoga and they seemed to fit well with what I wanted from a health perspective. My yoga teacher has been […]

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Menu Planning – Planning Ahead

March 6, 2009

This week my menu planning was unbelievably simple. Two meals. That’s it. Last week I put a little forthought into my menu plan. The Thinker will be away all week, so I decided to double up on most of the things we had for dinner so I could freeze some. I don’t mind eating the […]

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Getting the finances back in order

February 25, 2009

Over the Christmas break and summer holidays I made a conscious effort to let go of some of the restrictions we place on ourselves during the rest of the year. Schedules pretty much went out the window and, to a certain extent, so did any sort of budgeting. Now that the new year is well […]

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Childhood Immunisations

February 23, 2009

For me the decision to vaccinate our kids was a no brainer. I’m a numbers person. When I looked at the chances of suffering side effects from immunisations compared with the chances of complications arising from the various viruses we were trying to quash, the vaccine always won out. I’m not going to go into […]

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Menu Planning – Empty the Pantry

February 22, 2009

Well I was certainly shocked out of my holiday complacency last week when I had to pay the grocery bill. It was horrendous. So much so, that this week in my menu planning I’m attempting to use as much existing food from the pantry, fridge and freezer. I’ve done the grocery shop for this week […]