12 Simple Things You Can Do to Protect Your Identity and Personal Information …

August 4, 2014

In this day and age, particularly with technology, dishonest people are using more sophisticated means to access your personal information. You may or may not know someone who has experienced this problem but with a stolen identity, people can do all kinds of things like apply for loans or welfare benefits in your name or access and use your savings or credit cards. Any of those things could cause enormous stress, cost a lot of money that may never be recovered and play havoc with credit ratings but there are some very simple steps that I try to take to safeguard my … read more

I Love Entering Competitions …

May 30, 2014

At school, I was never very good at English and if there’s one thing I could say for sure, I was definitely no poet. I couldn’t string two rhyming lines together to save myself and as for odes and sonnets, well, thank goodness I had talents in other areas!! But last year, as a hobby, I started entering competitions. Most competitions are fairly simple, you fill out an entry form, like and share something on facebook or answer a question usually in “25 words or less”. Now, for years I avoided the last type of competitions as I never felt I could come up with … read more

My 10 Point Survival Guide for Mums …

April 30, 2014

  Being a Mumma can be the most rewarding thing any of us ever do but it can also be really hard. As much as we love our kids, it can often feel like “groundhog day” … endless days of relentless routine and days where nothing goes right … you know what I mean! Some days it feels like the world is crashing down around us. There are days when the littlies are sick and want nothing more than to be carried all the time which makes it harder to get much else done. There are days when the hours fly by like they are minutes and days when the house feels like it’s … read more

A Letter to My Girls …

March 29, 2014

Today, I thought I would share a letter I wrote to my beautiful daughters a couple of years ago …     To my Darling Girls,   The road you travel through your teenage years can be full of potholes and obstacles, destined to trip you as you walk this difficult path. But with a positive attitude, a big smile and a guiding hand along the way, your journey need not be so tough. Reach out and take our hands and we’ll tread this path together. You don’t ever need to walk alone and, remember, we will always be there to catch you should you … read more

An Attitude for Gratitude …

March 21, 2014

  Let’s be real … life can be tough … very tough! You only have to watch the nightly news for evidence of the stuff that’s happening, not just in our own backyard but indeed all around the world. It would be so easy to let fear take hold and to hide in our own safe little homes never going outside but who wants to live like that? And sometimes, we don’t even have to look outside our own homes to realize that challenges are everywhere. Some days just feel like an endless rerun of the day before as we all search in vain for this thing called “domestic … read more