Or, “Tips to Keep the Clothing Budget in Check When Someone in Your Family is a Brand Whore.” Just as some people have specific preferences for food, others have preferences for specific brands of clothing. In your family, this person may or may not be the same person. In ours, my husban...

three months in and Ive spent the past 6 weeks battling cold, flu, a disgusting viral infection, tonsillitis and a stomach bug thrown in for good measure - ah such is life. The kids are almost back to 100% but boy oh boy its been a long tough road.  Ellie has been struck down with tonsillitis ...

T'was the month after Christmas, and all through the house, Nothing would fit me, not even a blouse. The cookies I'd nibbled, the chocolate I'd taste At the holiday parties had gone to my waist.   When I got on the scales there arose such a number! When I walked to the store (less ...

Ive just put together this little collage to show the party we had on NYE.  The weather was FREEZING with snow forcast on the mountains for the next day!! but the company was wonderful and the many belly laughs, games and endless supply of food kept us going.  It was a fancy dress - Holl...

a few days after Christmas and a few days before the New Year begins.  Its been awhile I know but I have an excuse honest :)  Im typing this long overdue blog entry from a cold, wet and windy Burnie Tasmania and while Jayk is being entertained in the kitchen by his grandmother and his gr...

Hello people :) Im typing this blog post from my very own laptop!! Im still getting used to the keyboard but I LURVE it - my big pc is not well and may be on its last legs , seems it just doesn't have enough memory to cope with what I put it through SO after weeks of having my computer freeze on...

yes yes I know - its been awhile.  No excuse really just havent been fagged to blog.  You know how it is right??  Life gets in the way and all that ... so instead of trying to 'find' things to blog about and boring you to tears (avid reader) I thought Id jot down 5 th...

and the holidays are just about over.  Today was the first day of the womens softball season and we played a lightening carnival to start with - three games in very steamy weather.  I must say Im feeling every second of my 38 years - with an injury to the top of my hamstring and a twinge i...

... As I made my morning cup of coffee I compiled a mental list of what I wanted to blog about this morning and now as I sit and type most of its gone out of my head!  I hate that - makes me very frustrated, its right up there with forgetting basic names for things like T.V. - you know "Ja...

We arrived back from our OS jaunt on Wednesday night and its been all systems go - with unpacking and then repacking for our week trip to Broome (tomorrow). I have so much to tell and really not that long to tell it!  So Ill do a day by day rundown taken straight from my diary.  Grab a cup...