Just because you can, doesn’t mean you have to.

Just because you can, doesn’t mean you have to.

Sunday morning, post-sleepover party.  It was sunny, I flung open the doors,  I vacuumed and lit lovely smelling candles, the bebe was sleeping and the 10th birthday party was over {for me at least, Dave was on duty with 5 boys at the hot pools 

Being PRESENT means learning not to sweat the small stuff

Being PRESENT means learning not to sweat the small stuff

Thanks to Rexona Invisible Dry for sponsoring this post – originally published on nzgirl I am a Mum.  I am also a stay-at-home Mum. Every choice you make as a mother comes at a cost; the equal and opposite alternative to your decision to stay 

Daily | Look | Shine.

Daily | Look | Shine.

  It’s pretty hard to deny that everything is generally a-ok in your world when you have sun shining on this little corner of love in your lounge x

If Monday could be everyday please.

If Monday could be everyday please.

  Every Monday morning without fail, my various social media hangouts are inundated with digital ‘groans’ – another Monday!  5 more days ’til the weekend ::::insert sad emoticon:::: There needs to be a day between Saturday and Sunday the people say. I say – hooray 

This is why we can no longer be friends on Facebook

This is why we can no longer be friends on Facebook

When I was 21 I quit my Masters program, packed up and headed to the states by myself on my OE.  I initially spent three months as an au pair in California before I headed south-east to Florida where I would remain for three years 

Good Advice | Stop Caring so much

Good Advice | Stop Caring so much

Radio Hauraki is pretty much a part of my DNA. I grew up listening to Dad rock out to DJ Kevin Black playing Dire Straights, Led Zeppelin and ACDC while cruising in his ute, albeit horribly embarrassed by his ute as a teenage girl is 

Back on Track | 78 Days Left

Back on Track | 78 Days Left

What’s been happening since we last spoke guys? Have you got your shit together? Ticked everything off your lists and made new ones? I hope so. I mean we all know that we can sit around and wait for change, for the moon and the 

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