Welcome to the year of the dragon! Image source I love Chinese New Year. And I love that Patrick is Asian for no reason other than Chinese New Year. It’s basically the only reason I’m with him. Just so I can celebrate it with his family with such authenticity. Well, maybe I like him for…
Monthly Archives: January 2012
I dream of playing mums and dads
Image source As you may (or may not!) have read in my goals for 2012, I’m ready to finish working and be a mum. I thought I could do it all. But all it has brought with it is stress and what seems like bad mothering! This is the year. This year I’ll be playing…
SYL12 – Week 2: Define your values
I’ve always thought values were really quite useful in understanding what’s important to me and what is important to others. It has always helped me to accept people just as they are much more easily and helped me to see things from their point of view. Image source I remember having a conversation once with…
Healthy birthday cake
A few people have asked me for more information about the birthday cake I made for Evie’s first birthday after I posted this post. So here goes… It was pretty simple. As you can probably see in photos! The cost came to about $60 (AUD) for the fruit, skewers and candle. But I bought…
Birthday cake for a 1 year old. Yay or nay?
Evie recently had her first birthday and I went searching online for a healthy option for a birthday cake but didn’t find much. Even on paleo-diet sites I couldn’t find a recipe that suited us. So I made up my own. My main concern was Evie. She had never had cake of any sort of…
Hello 2012
Image source here So this is 2012, hey? This post has had to wait until January 9th because I’ve been doing other very important things. Such things include making sure holiday parks don’t go out of business, getting a tan so I don’t blind people when they look at me and testing the pool water…
