Early rise

April 7, 2009
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I love daylight savings.  The extra hours of daylight make a walk or game of backyard cricket after tea a lovely reality.  That said, there are a couple of times when I wish for the clocks to be back to normal.  The first is usually the week after daylight savings begins.  Dragging myself and the […]

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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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My new hobby

March 4, 2009

After much gentle, yet persistent hinting from me The Thinker bought me a new camera for my birthday earlier this year.  I’d been wanting to upgrade to a DSLR for over a year.  As we were (and still are) on a bit of a savings kick, I had decided to stick with my point and […]

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Menu Planning – Maintaining the Momentum

February 27, 2009

This week I managed very well to empty the freezer.  The fridge is full to overflowing with leftovers which will make lunches over the weekend easier.  As much as I usually love salad sandwiches, I’m over them as the predominant lunch option on the weekends.  For the next week I’m aiming to double some quantities […]

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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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