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SYL12 Week 4: Wheel of life

Written on February 10, 2012 by Alexandra in SYL12 (Simplify Your Life Link-up)

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…

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SYL12 Week 3: Mission Statement

Written on February 10, 2012 by Alexandra in Household, Me, Mind, SYL12 (Simplify Your Life Link-up)

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…

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Chocolate Beetroot Cake

Written on February 9, 2012 by Alexandra in Mums munchies

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,…

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Blogging 101 for the real people

Written on February 8, 2012 by Alexandra in Blogging, Me

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…

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Just being nosy!

Written on February 1, 2012 by Alexandra in Household, Mind, Parenting

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…

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Kung Hei Fat Choy

Written on January 25, 2012 by Alexandra in Celebration, Household, Me

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…

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I dream of playing mums and dads

Written on January 24, 2012 by Alexandra in Birth, Caveman parenting, Household, Me, Parenting

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…

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SYL12 – Week 2: Define your values

Written on January 21, 2012 by Alexandra in Caveman parenting, Me, Parenting, SYL12 (Simplify Your Life Link-up)

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…

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Healthy birthday cake

Written on January 18, 2012 by Alexandra in Caveman parenting, Crafts, Evie, Mums munchies, Parenting

A few people have asked me for more information about the birthday cake I made for Evie’s first birthday. 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 all organic fruit so perhaps…

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Birthday cake for a 1 year old. Yay or nay?

Written on January 16, 2012 by Alexandra in Caveman parenting, Evie, Household, Parenting

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…

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Hello 2012

Written on January 9, 2012 by Alexandra in Household, Me

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…

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