100 Days Left.  Thanks.

100 Days Left. Thanks.

Wow, you guys were really feeling that post!  It was so awesome to read your comments on here, IG and FB – I hope ya’ll read ya’lls comments as well as there have been some beauties.  Basically, it seems, we are not alone in our 

Losing Track | 100 days until 2015

Losing Track | 100 days until 2015

When I say I’m losing track I’m not talking about trotting out the old Mum adage of “where has the year gone?”.  We all know that once you have kids time becomes a slippery slope of years passing as quickly as our many failed diet and exercise 

7 Days

7 Days

Worn out. Sunday night and I’m done. Big weekend down here in old NZ, our incumbent Prime minister John Key and the National Party have won the election by a landslide indicating a firm shift to the right by New Zealand voters. Nothing too out of 

Acquisitions | Monochrome Birkenstocks

Acquisitions | Monochrome Birkenstocks

  After a short stay in customs jail my comfy, velvety, gorgeous {“super ugly hippy shoes” – Husband} black and white Birkenstocks have arrived!  I ordered from Amazon through a seller in Germany which actually took  f o r e v e r, but still 

Let’s do this thing.  Sometime this week, ok?

Let’s do this thing. Sometime this week, ok?

My big guy is a swimmer, amongst other things, so there is a high chance of me spending an hour or two at the pool each week, sans baby, ‘relaxing’ and mindlessly playing Jurassic Park.  <<< There you have it people, my dirty little secret 

7 Days

7 Days

 Seven days = 168 hours. I figure I spent about 42 of those hours sleeping and 100 hours cleaning the juicer so that leaves 26 hours I am unable to account for!  WTH. What do I do with myself all day?   This week has 

Acquisitions | Little Noggi Meraki Hat in Clover

Acquisitions | Little Noggi Meraki Hat in Clover

  Instagram is bad news brown for little love-to-shop Mamas like myself.  I can’t remember how I stumbled upon Little Noggi but I’m SO glad I did.  I purchased Nixie’s first, reversible Little Noggi hat in an Instagram sale and I won this beautiful lined 

Book Review | The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Book Review | The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd

Finishing a book, or even starting or reading a page of one is a rare luxury these days but one I DO enjoy, so I will plod on  s l o w l y lol. This is a book I really wanted to finish sooner, 

The #wantneed conundrum

The #wantneed conundrum

  #need shopping today Selley’s Liquid Nails: to fix the stupid handle on Nixon’s Mocka Wooden Trolley that refuses to stay stuck Cheap nappies: Nixon poos like a champ now approx 7 times per day at least, expensive Huggies are now reserved for nights only 

Nothing to see here, move on

Nothing to see here, move on

Today I hung the washing out in the sunshine, listening to an Oprah and Deepak meditation on my phone {no, for real I was! check it here}. And then it hailed. I spent 10 minutes changing the baby’s diaper, blow drying his bum and gently applying