Monthly Archives: February 2012

Thunder, abnormal back growths and judging parents

So here we are in the beautiful Sunshine Coast in Queensland. Muggy and sticky and thundering. We needed a holiday. This isn’t a holiday. It has been flat out and baby is exhausted! As is mummy. We left home at 5am yesterday, caught 2 flights here, got picked up from the airport by the lovely…

SYL12 Week 4: Wheel of life

So that’s my ‘wheel of life’. That’s where my life is at at the moment. I like this weeks challenge! It was easy and I’m slowly catching up (supposed to be up to week 6 at the time of posting this!) Great idea to do this – I like to see a visual representation. For…

SYL12 Week 3: Mission Statement

Image source We have a mission statement at work which we re-examine and update about twice a year, as well as whenever we have a new staff member so that it can reflect all of our team’s personality and ideas. We are only a small business (6 people) but it has been really useful for…

Chocolate Beetroot Cake

Yesterday I turned into SuperMum. I cooked dinner AND dessert in the same afternoon! Sure, the house was still a mess… but we had food. Dinner was your standard healthy meal. Meat and veg. Tasty yet simple. Dessert on the other hand. Well, dessert was weird. We had some beetroot that needed to be used,…

Blogging 101 for the real people

Image source There are some people I know IRL (see that? I already dropped a ‘blogging’ word) who know that I blog. There are some that don’t. And there are some who I actually have no idea about. Part of me prefers not to know, I like the freedom. But another part of me realises…

Just being nosy!

Last night Patrick and I sat down for some dinner in a real restaurant (wow!) and in between responding to requests from Evie, putting more food on her plate, conversing with her in 1 syllable words and doing the ocassional animated expression, we discussed things. We discussed the practice, we decided that we work with…