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…
Category Archives: Household
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…
Kung Hei Fat Choy
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…
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…
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…
Goodbye 2011
Image source here I have heard mixed reviews of 2011. Some loved it, some didn’t. Of course, I am grateful for all I have and all that happened last year. I also know that it is such a cliche (and perhaps pretty silly) to wait until the new year before making a change. But that’s…
Forget the ‘loose weight, quit smoking’ for me
They say money can’t buy happiness. But money would buy me a huge-ass dishwasher. That in turn would bring me great happiness. My new years resolution this year is to get a dishwasher. I’m over washing dishes! That will be all. Alexandra
