Any moment now, a flying saucer is going to park on your roof and a little green creature will plonk into your bed as you rest, drag you out and implant a whole new bunch of crazy thoughts into your mind. Not going to happen – right. You’d kick, scream, cry, fight to save your precious mind. […]
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This post is also an appreciation of my amazing mum featured in the blog pic. I can’t say I’ve ever been a massive morning fan. The whole wake up, jump out of bed, get dressed, start the day has always been a bit like groundhog day for me. Add to that three additional little people
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So, what do YOU eat when on the road? As I was writing only yesterday about belief systems, I’ve noted with glee (and sarcasm) that one of my long held beliefs is that the calories shoved into one’s gob while ‘one the road’ don’t count. In my family we refer to this phenomena as ‘travel
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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
A month with no wine Read More
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
What makes you happy? Do that Read More
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
Turd sandwich anyone? Read More
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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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
Are you running against the clock? Read More