In early February I remember I received my first blog bling(award) from a fantastic blogger CelloBella. I have to admit to be being so very excited about receiving the Excellent blog award from someone who I respected as a blogger. This week I was just as excited to receive it again from a very well travelled [...]

I have written previously about how important I think it is for me to look after myself so I am then better equipped to look after my family. My well being is an important factor in the smooth running and general happiness of the home. But can you measure well being? Australian Unity in conjunction [...]

I have created for my family a checklist of activities that we need to complete before leaving home on holidays. At the bottom of this post, you will find attached a word document version of the check list (without the descriptions of course!) that I stick on the fridge the week before we go away. [...]

In my Planning for the Easter Holiday Car Trip post I detailed some of the activities that we pack for the children. We also make sure that we have a number of quality audio books to play along the way as well. We have a rotation system in the car for long trips like this, [...]

It was a very easy to plan the family meals for this week, as we head off for our Easter Holidays on Thursday morning, which left me only three meals for to cook this week at home: Monday: Tacos Tuesday: Vietnamese Beef with Noodles (Recipe attached) Wednesday: Sausages and Salad Baking: Chocolate Balls (Recipe attached) [...]

Like many families we participate in the tradition of giving chocolate eggs at Easter time. I am not sure whether it is because Christmas still seemed like only a few weeks ago, but the thought of all the associated packaging that comes along with Easter has really turned me off buying eggs so far. The [...]