So many mums ask me about work life balance and this is my very honest reply… Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be a a working mum, particularly a business owning working mum. I’ve been wondering what it might be like to NOT try and cram work into school hours, to […]
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What? I hear you ask A month without WHAT? I know I thought the same when the idea came to me. WHY? I’ve been asked The truth is I’m not ENTIRELY sure, but here is the general gist of the thinking With a dad with younger onset dementia brought on not entirely, but encouraged by
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This week I saw a beautiful post on Facebook, a friend had taken her daughter to her first day of school and received a goodie bag with some tissues and a lovely poem. It was an acknowledgement to the mum, the family that it was time. At this time of the year I know many
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It’s almost a month now that my three have been on holidays. The weird thing is we are so used to being together we’ve fallen completely into a rhythm of sorts. Everyone is enjoying pottering about in their own space doing little things and I’ve rarely heard the ‘bored’ word. Weird but wonderful. Well, so
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January is a tricky month. It’s the month of juggling work and kids not to mention coping with fluctuating levels of energy. Not to mention days when you’d much rather be sleeping than getting back to reality. And then there’s mum guilt. Last big holidays I declared myself the ‘worst mum in the world’ without
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A sense of being enormously grateful is very much on my mind this week. It’s a feeling that I often connect with, but even more so in this week as our country mourns the death of a young hero, Phillip Hughes. Like many people in my community of Macksville, NSW I know of his family
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Let’s face it, sometimes life just delivers up shit. Sometimes it’s brought on by a series of choices we’ve made for ourselves, sometimes it just happens out of the blue. And even though some of us are a lot more on the masochistic side than others it’s highly unlikely that you’ll find many people walking
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How often do you plan to work in the evening only to be seduced by sleep as you put a kid to bed? I had my first 2 kids in my 20s and it seemed easy to negotiate those witching hours, then return to my desk and punch out a uni. assignment, business plan, delegate
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If you had all the time in the world what would you do? How would life be different? What would you be doing right now? TIME (or lack thereof) is the blame for so many things not getting done – particularly things for oneself. But the problem is, we DON’T have an infinite supply of
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Last week I did a lot of thinking about time. Time management, efficiency, not enough time, time for me and time for family. Time was a BIG, MASSIVE challenge for me last week, one of those weeks where I felt I could have cloned myself, added an extra 10 hours to each day and yet
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