Tonight I've run out of time! My sister-in-law came over for dinner tonight and we indulged in a share plate of cheese, cured meats and the most AMAZING figs I've ever had. Incidentally, did you know that word Share Plate is the Macquarie Dictionary's word of the year this year. #randomfactoftheday Anyway, back to this: My …
Continue reading Freedom to have an opinion (even if it’s a conflicting one)
Dear Mum Did you know that I find your birthday the most hardest of all the days to deal with? Not the anniversary of your death, or the many annual holiday dates that have passed since then. Not Mother's Day, although since becoming a mother I have found it is much more bittersweet. Not even my own …
Can you believe we're one month into 2015 already? Already!??? This means that I've also been blogging for a month now too! Where on earth has that time gone? Well, they do say that time flies when you're having fun and I have to confess, it's been a fun ride so far. And whilst I'm still finding …
On Thursday I was thrilled to learn that I had been nominated for a Liebster Award!!! Don’t know what the Liebster Award is? Well, neither did I until I was nominated by Sarah from Steps with Sarah. In a nutshell (and in my interpretation), the Liebster Award is a big fat high five given to …
Continue reading More chuffed than Thomas the Tank Engine (Liebster Awards)
As you may have already noticed, unlike Winston Churchill, I’m not much of a planner nor have I ever been one for setting goals and so far, I've not had any major regrets. But, whilst there is no question that I subscribe to the just wing it approach to life, I also concede that this year is different. …
EEK! What started as an idea to talk about my colourful new blog title header and how it came to be, has now got the potential to become a PhD thesis! So I'm going to make a concerted effort to rein in my thoughts on this one... if that is at all possible! I had intended …
So I did something bold today... I told someone about this blog! Well, in all honesty, it wasn't just 'someone'. I was always going to tell my friend, Mrs Mone about this blog, I just hadn't planned on telling her this early. But as things happened, I did and it went down like this... Having not seen …
On Monday, I read an article written by Carly Jacobs who writes over at her blog, Smaggle. And I’ve not been able to stop thinking about it since. You know how I was talking about the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon recently? Well in addition to mindfulness, a lot of things relating to passion have been cropping up …
I recall having a lightbulb moment when sitting in my Buyer Behaviour 101 class back in my undergraduate uni days. My marketing lecturer began talking about the coincidences that occur during the decision making phase before a customer makes a purchase. After listening to her explain, I remember thinking - OMG, this happens to me ALL. THE. TIME. Here …
Continue reading Tin foil hats (or my journey towards mindfulness)
Tonight's post is bought to you by a determined two and a half year old and an equally determined (AKA stubborn) mother. Cue Mexican standoff! I'm not sure how many of you have kids, but if you've got kids over the age of 2 then I'm pretty sure you'll be picking up what I'm putting …
A LIFE LIKE OURS 