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…
Category Archives: Caveman parenting
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. 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…
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…
Paleo gingerbread
Yesterday a friend of mine invited us to her house for an afternoon of Christmas cooking. For those of you who know me (and/or Rebecca) we are not quite in the habit of feeding our children unhealthy food. In fact, so much so that our children would have no idea what Coke was, they think…
Cave-mumma!
Caveman parenting. What is that?! Cave-man parenting is the concept I parent by. There are so many terms floating around to describe similar parenting styles… Gentle parenting and natural parenting to name a few. So why add caveman parenting into the mix? To me it incorporates both natural parenting and living a healthy lifestyle (food,…
